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RHS Grow Your Own: For Kids Chris Collins

RHS Grow Your Own: For Kids By Chris Collins

RHS Grow Your Own: For Kids by Chris Collins

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RHS Grow Your Own for Kids provides 35 step-by-step projects to get children into the garden and growing their own fruit, vegetables and herbs. There's also useful information on some key gardening basics such as pollination and seed germination, bugs and slugs.

RHS Grow Your Own: For Kids Summary

RHS Grow Your Own: For Kids: How to be a great gardener by Chris Collins

Renowned garden writer Lia Leendertz (Guardian and many books) and children's television gardener Chris Collins (BBC's 'Blue Peter'), show junior greenfingers everything they need to know to get the gardening bug. RHS Grow Your Own for Kids embodies the 'Grow Your Own' ethos of food provenance, self-sufficiency, and healthy eating. It shows how to sow and grow up to 12 key vegetables including tomatoes, aubergines, peas, potatoes, monster pumpkins, mustard & cress, runner beans and courgettes. It also includes child-friendly fruits such as strawberries, raspberries and blueberries, along with other plants such as sunflowers and edible flowers. Specially commissioned photography featuring children gardening illustrates the projects and introduces young gardeners to the science behind gardening.

About Chris Collins

Edinburgh-trained Chris Collins has been the Blue Peter gardener since 2004. He has fronted and run the RHS Campaign for School Gardening that gives over 1 million UK kids access to school gardens. For adults, Chris presented the six-part series The Plantsman on BBC2 in 2003 and has just finished a new series of Garden Invaders for BBC1. He has just finished a series on Secret Gardens for ITV1's This Morning. The Royal Horticultural Society is at the forefront of a gardening revolution in which received wisdom is questioned and updated. This great gardening book for kids is the combined effort of the UK's biggest gardening charity and 40 years of Blue Peter gardening.

Table of Contents

Introduction HOW TO BE A GREAT GARDENER - Your own plot; Make a mini garden; Plant tubs, pots, and containers; Make a windowbox garden; Grow plants indoors; What shall I grow?; Weird and wonderful plants GET GROWING - What do I need?; Sow seeds outdoors; Sow seeds indoors; Care for baby seedlings; Water it, weed it, feed it GROW YOUR OWN - Top 10 easy-to-grow veg; Let's have some peas; Make a living lunch box; Plant a tomato tower; Grow a giant pumpkin; Have a bean feast; Grow a bag of potatoes; Plant a sweetcorn jungle; Train climbing cucumbers; Plant a stinky garlic garden; Sow a neverending salad bowl; Grow alien sci-fi veg; Make a strawberry fountain; Pick and mix your own fruit salad; Make a sprouting seed factory; Make a herb garden; Top 10 garden flowers; Make a flowerpot garden; Grow giant sunflowers; Make a miniature mountain garden; Sow a wild flower patch; Make a swamp garden GREEN GARDENING - Bird baths, pools, and ponds; Bird boxes and shelters; Make a birdfeeder cafe; Bat boxes and insect refuges; Build a wormery; Make your own compost; Create new plants for free OOPS! - What's gone wrong?; Keep pests away; Open a slug and snail bar; Make a scarecrow TIPS FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS - Health and safety advice; What not to grow - toxic or poisonous plants; Encouraging kids to keep a grow-your-own scrapbook or diary Credits and acknowledgments Index

Additional information

GOR004824042
9781845335106
1845335104
RHS Grow Your Own: For Kids: How to be a great gardener by Chris Collins
Chris Collins
Royal Horticultural Society Grow Your Own
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Octopus Publishing Group
2012-01-02
112
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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