Gardening for Planet Earth by Dee Pigneguy

$25.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

If we were to focus on growing food in family backyards, we could shape a new world." Gardening is all about learning, experimenting, changing things, adapting, being observant and open to new ideas. Let the amazing photographs in this book help you to learn how to create your own garden paradise. Gar dening for Planet Earth will help you discover: How organic gardens depend on nature's cycles for everything from making soil and fixing nitrogen to growing nutrient dense food. How plants sustain life on earth based on the sun's renewable energy. The role insects play in the predator-prey cycle. The fun and excitement of growing your own fruit, flowers, herbs and vegetables. How organic gardening can slow climate change. With her husband Mike once again behind the camera, Dee Pigneguy has reshaped and augmented her immensely popular, and now sold out book, Growing Gardeners, into this inspirational resource for anyone interested in growing their own healthy food while improving the health of their family and our own planet, Earth. ...Show more

Easy Peasy: Gardening with Kids by Kirsten Bradley

$40.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

An introduction to easy gardening so you can grow everywhere and anywhere.Whether you live in the city or the countryside, there are plenty of places you can plant and grow. For a new generation of green fingers there are different ways to bring nature into the home. Make your own pots, build balcony bo xes, create your own bird feeders and even get friendly with worms! Each activity has been carefully chosen to create living, renewable and sustainable environments for kids and their families.Each activity has been carefully written by Kirsten Bradley, a leading practitioner in permaculture for kids and co-founder of Milkwood permaculture farm in Australia. The simple steps and beautiful spot illustrations make activities fun and easy to follow. The book will also feature non-activity spreads explaining the importance of why and how nature works. Illustrated by Aitch, a Romanian artist whose folkloric illustrations pay homage to vintage botanical books while giving each page a sense of modern magic. ...Show more

Sunflower Shoots and Muddy Boots: A Child's Guide to Gardening by Katherine Halligan

$17.00 NZD

Category: Gardening | Reading Level: 6+

Packed with brilliant activities and green-fingered ideas, top tips and fascinating facts, from growing berries and flowers in old hats and welly boots, to making miniature indoor magic gardens or even growing your own secret den. The perfect first introduction to the absolute delight of growing plants. ...Show more

Ready, Steady, Grow! Quick and Easy Gardening Projects by Royal Horticultural Society

$35.00 NZD

Category: Gardening | Reading Level: 8-11

Cool gardening projects for kids! Get your child in the garden, get sowing and harvesting and they will learn to grow all kinds of plants, vegetables and fruits quickly and easily. No need to wait months for results: they'll be able to follow the simple instructions to raise fantastic plants in twelve w eeks or less. Soon they'll have tasty tomatoes and delicious strawberries, pretty marigolds and sprouting seeds ready to eat in a week. There are fun projects, too, from making a pizza garden and growing a fairy ring, to designing a wildlife window box. And you don't even need a garden: there are lots of ideas for using containers, baskets and boxes. So get ready, get steady and get growing! ...Show more

Play in the Garden: Fun Projects for Kids to Enjoy Outdoors by Sarah O'Neil

$35.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

A collection of garden projects organised by season to help get children growing their own fruit and vegetables.

Kid's Gardening Tool Set by .

$14.00 NZD

Category: Crafts and Science

Maisy Grows a Garden (Maisy First Science) by Lucy Cousins

$23.00 NZD

Category: Maisy Books | Series: Maisy First Science

This book lets you help Maisy to grow her very first garden with a vegetable patch and LOTS of flowers. See things spring to life in this fun-filled novelty book! Digging, planting, weeding, watering...Maisy is getting her garden ready so that wonderful, colourful things can lay their roots. Turn the pa ges and pull the tabs to make seeds grow. Carrots, lettuce, tomatoes and green beans - yum, yum! Sunflowers and daisies! Look, a wriggling worm and a buzzing bee! Gardening is so much fun. This new "Maisy First Science" title is interactive, inspiring and informative too - enough to get even the youngest children excited about nature and how things grow. ...Show more

Grow Your Own - For Kids! by Chris Collins; Lia Leendertz

$20.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

In Grow Your Own For Kids, Chris Collins shows how to sow and grow 10 easy vegetables that kids love to eat. Simple step-by-step sequences will guide and inspire them; presenting fun challenges such as growing the tallest sunflower and the largest pumpkin. A "letter to the grown ups" will explain how pa rents and guardians can provide a garden for their kids, whether this is a container, a window box or a small plot outside. A shopping list, general advice and words of wisdom and encouragement will ensure that nothing goes wrong for those budding green fingers. A great add-on to the book is the Sow-your-own-Salad page with lettuce-seed impregnated paper. This cut-out page will come to life when placed in a seed pot with compost and water. The miracle of growing your own, springing from the pages of their first gardening book ...Show more

Kid's First Gardening by Jenny Hendy

$20.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

Winner of the Practical Gardening Book of the Year, with 120 fun projects for kids.

I Can Grow Things (Show Me How) by Sally Walton; Stephanie Donaldson

$18.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

Plants, flowers, soil and gardening tools are endlessly fascinating to youngsters, and getting their hands dirty in the garden can be great fun This exciting book contains 16 easy-to-follow projects suitable for every child. An informative introduction covers all the basics, including watering, weeding and materials, while helpful tips and ideas provide inspiration and encourage experimentation. ...Show more

Growing Organic: Green Tips for the New Zealand Gardener by Philippa Jamieson

$30.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

The popularity of organic gardening continues to rise as people increasingly want to control the quality and freshness of the food that they eat. And organic gardening isn't just about creating delicious healthy food for the table; it's also about nurturing nature. Specially tailored to New Zealand's gr owing conditions, Growing Organic is a handbook of eco-friendly and health-aware gardening techniques for sowing and growing fruit, vegetables and herbs, and much more. From selecting tools to propagation, crop rotation, watering, weed and pest control, all the essentials are here. Learn how to make handy apparatus for the toolshed, and how to attract wildlife to your garden. Growing Organic is the perfect primer for every organic gardener. ...Show more

Yates Garden Guide: Celebrating 130 Years of Yates in New Zealand by Yates

$50.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

This special anniversary edition features a pictorial history of Yates in New Zealand and a new chapter about changes in garden styles over the last century, as well as a completely revised chapter on New Zealand native plants. Fully illustrated and detailing hundreds of plant species, this book contain s everything you need to know about growing trees, shrubs, vines, flowers, vegetables, herbs and fruit. Handy hints from top gardeners will save you time and money, and brand-new problem-solving charts will help you identify and deal with pests and diseases. Chapters on designing and preparing a range of garden styles including organic, low-allergen and water-saving gardens, along with container gardens for courtyards and balconies, make this the essential companion for all New Zealand gardeners. ...Show more