Growing Things to Eat

This is the second in the Yates Gardening for Kids series, another bright, attractive and easy-to-follow introductory guide to gardening for children.

The emphasis this time is on growing food, and introducing basic information about growing common garden fruits and vegetables.

Topic areas include:
*buried treasure – food under the ground;
*crunchy food – stalks;
*munchy food – leaves;
*juicy food – fruit;
*fruit that grows on the ground;
*fruit that grows on trees and bushes;
*eating flowers;
*eating seeds;
*effect of climate and protecting plants;
*how to read a seed packet;
*making new plants without seeds; and
*strange plant foods.

Once again Janice Marriott’s clear and simple text will be accompanied by Elena Petrov’s colourful illustrations and diagrams, along with activities, puzzles, games, experiments, handy hints and jokes.

Ages 10+