Gardening For Kids
A Backyard Flower Garden for KidsISBN 9781584156338List Price $29.95School/Library Price $21.50In StockRiding bikes, hiking, and playing sports aren’t the only things you can do in the great outdoors. If you’d like a relaxing, rewarding way to spend time outside, you could start your very own flower garden. Follow these step-by-step instructions for preparing your garden plot and choosing flowers for shady and sunny locations, plus maintaining your garden by weeding, watering, and deadheading. Discover the difference between annuals and perennials, and find out what to plant to attract colorful birds and butterflies. Decorate your own gardening gloves and belt for carrying the tools you’ll need to maintain a garden once it starts to grow. Whether you’re planting in a big backyard or in containers that you can keep indoors, you can reap the rewards of successful flower gardening. |
A Backyard Vegetable Garden for KidsISBN 9781584156345List Price $29.95School/Library Price $21.50In StockIn this step-by-step guide, you’ll find out how to plan, design, grow, and harvest your own vegetable garden. You’ll find that gardening is even more fun when you can eat what you have planted! You’ll learn which are the perfect plants to grow in your area, what tools you’ll need, and how to prepare a garden plot. You’ll also discover techniques to help your vegetables grow their best, such as which plants grow well together and which ones don’t. Do you have limited space? No problem. You can always grow a garden in creative containers. And while you’re tending your vegetable garden plot, you can follow the easy directions for making a hummingbird bath to bring even more life to your backyard. |
Design Your Own Butterfly GardenISBN 9781584156383List Price $29.95School/Library Price $21.50In StockColor adds an irresistible dimension to any yard. Put a pair of wings on that color and suddenly your yard is alive with life! Butterflies live all over the country, so you’re likely to see them no matter where you live. To attract butterflies to your backyard, you need to provide the things they like: nectar, water, sun, and shelter. For most of us, this is as easy as planting some wildflower seeds in a sunny spot. In just a few months, the tiny seeds have grown into huge, beautiful flowers that butterflies just can’t resist. A butterfly log house for shelter is also easy to build. Everyone wins—you enjoy the butterflies, and the butterflies get a satisfying home. |
Design Your Own Pond and Water GardenISBN 9781584156352List Price $29.95School/Library Price $21.50In StockEveryone loves a garden filled with bright colors, soft textures, and lovely smells. Add a little water to the mix and you have the perfect spot to relax and enjoy the best of nature. Relaxing by your water garden is the end of a long but rewarding process. Follow these step-by-step instructions for finding the best spot in your yard for a healthy water garden, designing and digging it, choosing water flowers, and adding fish. You can even build a toad house to attract wild visitors to your backyard. When all the designing, digging, lining, planting and stocking is done, you can sit in your own private oasis and enjoy nature’s gorgeous bounty. Color, movement, scent—it all adds up to life! |
A Kid's Guide to Container GardeningISBN 9781584158141List Price $29.95School/Library Price $21.50In StockWould you like to grow a patio full of soup? Grow your own jungle or make your house a rainbow of flowers? You can do all this and more if you learn how to build a container garden. You'll hunt in closets, trash cans, and basements to find great containers for your plants. You can grow everything from tiny roses to giant jungle leaves. You don't need a yard for your container garden. All you need are pots, cans, boxes, or baskets, a little dirt and some plants—and your imagination. |
A Kid's Guide to Landscape DesignISBN 9781584156376List Price $29.95School/Library Price $21.50In StockLandscaping—designing a garden for a particular space—is a lot like creating a work of art. From an ordinary piece of land, you can create a setting that invites people to stop for a minute, rest, and admire its beauty. Follow these step-by-step instructions for selecting a location and designing your garden; adding borders and a dramatic focal point; choosing the best plants for your design, soil, and climate; and caring for your landscaping once everything is in place. Keep track of all your plantings with personalized seed markers you can make yourself. The end result will be an attractive garden space that you can call your own. |
A Kid's Guide to Making a TerrariumISBN 9781584158134List Price $29.95School/Library Price $21.50In StockImagine a miniature world under glass. It has growing plants and falling rain, yet it is small enough to sit on your bedside table. This miniature world is a terrarium, and you can build one of your own. Learn how to make a working water cycle and how to grow tropical plants. Get messy digging in the dirt. Have fun treasure hunting for the perfect container and building your own secret world. Be a scientist and study how plants grow, or use your imagination to create a world for dinosaurs. It's all possible when you learn how to make your own terrarium. |
A Kid's Guide to Perennial GardensISBN 9781584156369List Price $29.95School/Library Price $21.50In StockHave you ever wished you could bring a rainbow to your backyard and keep it all summer? If so, you could plant your own perennial garden. It will bring bright colors and beauty to your house year after year, whether you fill a few pots or fill your entire backyard. Follow these step-by-step instructions for planting a perennial garden, from figuring out which plants will grow best where you live to where you should plant each seed. As little green shoots stick up through the dirt to greet the sun and then turn into colorful blossoms, you will be glad for every minute you spent on your garden. It’s the best way to capture a rainbow of your very own! |
Organic Gardening for KidsISBN 9781584158158List Price $29.95School/Library Price $21.50In StockWould you like to grow delicious vegetables, fragrant herbs, or colorful flowers without using chemicals that can harm the environment? If so, organic gardening is for you. In easy steps, this book will help you choose the right types of plants for the soil and sunlight you have in your garden, enrich your soil with natural products like compost, and prevent pests in ways that are not harmful to wildlife. It will even show you how to build your own worm composter. Organic Gardening for Kids guides you through the process of creating a special place that will not only provide you and your family with organic food and ornamental flowers, but also attract butterflies, birds, and other local wildlife. |
Gardening For Kids: Complete Set (9 titles)ISBN 9781584158165List Price $269.55School/Library Price $193.50In Stock |
