Product Description

This book is suitable for ages 9 to 12 years. Here is a gardening book for everyone! If you are someone who lives where there is no space to garden outside you can create a Kitchen Scrap Garden, a Fast Food Salad Garden. Alternatively, if you are happy with dirt to dabble in, you can grow an edible tepee of pole beans, nasturtiums, and sweet peas. Along with these projects, this book covers gardening basics, garden philosophies, and how to create your special flower garden.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #910434 in Books
• Published on: 1996-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From School Library Journal
Grade 3-5?This "Anytime Anyplace Guide" tries to do too much, thereby sacrificing depth, clarity, and focus. In a zippy style, and with black-line drawings, the authors give sketchy directions for making a plant person with grass hair; tips for planting according to the position of the moon; the parts of a plant; experiments; recipes; and little bits of much, much more. Gardening is difficult enough with the best of directions, but leading readers to expect fast and easy results without much clarity is a disservice to hopeful beginners. Marc Brown's Your First Garden Book (Little, 1981) is a playful and much more helpful indoor-outdoor guide. Marjorie Waters's The Victory Garden Kids' Book (Globe Pequot, 1994) is a fine, clear outdoor gardening inspiration for slightly older readers.?Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"We give it two green thumbs up!" -- Schoolwide Enrichment Network

Plant a sidewalk-crack garden, grow a broom, and discover bug remedies and composting with the aid of a title which involves kids ages 4 and older and their families in the gardening process. The attention to urban as well as outdoor gardens makes for a lively and fun focus. -- Midwest Book Review

Customer Reviews

Review
This is a great book for the novice gardener--whether you're an "innie" or an "outie" (where you garden--indoors or out). It has great ideas for kids gardening, such as fun containers (like tennis shoes) and a living teepee (poles with runner beans). I found it very helpful and informative for the layperson's interest in beginning gardening, as well.

Important life lessons served up with fun
We have had great fun doing these simple projects - summer, winter, bulbs in winter, and easy to grow pole bean 'teepees' in summer. The authors point out that gardening contains life lessons for children: They learn the value of patience, and that you work first and get rewards after. Terrific for common sense learning.