Rocks, dirt, worms & weeds : a fun, user-friendly, illustrated guide to creating a vegetable or flower garden with your kids / Jeff Hutton
- Author
- Hutton, Jeff
- Additional Titles
- Rocks, dirt, worms and weeds and Fun, user-friendly illustrated guide to creating a vegetable or flower garden with your kids
- Published
- New York : Skyhorse Pub., [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- 136 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Contents
- Getting dirty -- all about soil and more -- Starting seeds indoors and other indoor gardening projects -- Growing a vegetable garden -- Worms and other friends -- Fun with flowers -- Weeds and other wonders -- Flying flowers: butterflies and butterfly gardens -- Gardening is for the birds -- Water, water everywhere -- Stepping stones, rock gardening, and other outdoor art -- Great pumpkins and more fall harvest fun -- Cold peas and rotten potatoes: the joys of compost -- To snow and beyond -- What goes around comes around.
- Summary
- Jeff Hutton shows you and your kids how to grow your own food and your favorite flowers, attract butterflies, create crafts, and more.Teach your children how to start garden seeds indoors as well as how to prepare soil, plant seeds, and transplant seedlings. Additionally, there are over a dozen fun recipes and instructions for making stepping stones, decorating egg carton planters, planting a sunflower maze, and much more.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781616087227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1616087226 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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