Grow a Garden! (Maker Comics) by Alexis Frederick-Frost

$23.00 NZD

Category: Gardening | Series: Maker Comics

Maker Comics is the ultimate DIY guide. Inside Alexis Frederick-Frost's graphic novel, you will find illustrated instructions for six gardening projects Will, Violet, and Basil must be the unluckiest students at the Garden Gnome Academy. They've been stuck with Mr. Butternut, the school's most unpopular (and unusual) teacher. Will and his friends have to learn about soil and compost while their classmates get to study exotic plants and butterflies. Although things get a little messy (and stinky) in his class, Mr. Butternut does know a thing or two about growing delicious veggies. Read along to get all the dirt on growing your favorite vegetables And you don't need a big backyard to be a great gardener--just a little bit of space and a lot of sunlight. With the easy instructions inside this book you can grow lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, peppers, and more. Maker Comics: Grow a Garden will walk you through each step, from seed to harvest. Follow the easy step-by-step instructions and you can make: A compost binSeed potsPotting mixA growlight shelfA cold frameA container garden ...Show more

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

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

Easy Peasy: Gardening for 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

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

$35.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

Kids don't have the patience or the interest in having their own garden patch, they just want to have fun! Sarah O'Neil knows this well. Her series of clever outdoor projects will get kids outside throughout the growing season, having fun in the vegetable garden. While learning to grow vegetables is co vered in the book, the focus is on various cool projects to make and do - with and without the help of grown-ups - and kids will discover at the end that they have learned a lot about gardening. There's text and side-bars for kids and grown-ups. Beginning in the spring, they can get their hands dirty testing soil, fool the birds with stone strawberries, race Jack up the beanstalk, stir pots of stinky weed brew, grow plants for free, create a pirate map and find buried treasure, craft corn dolls, design their own stepping stones, and more. ...Show more

Let's Get Gardening

$30.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

Let's Get Gardening is a wonderful start to building any child's green thumb and encouraging them to do their bit for the environment. This book includes three simple chapters - kitchen gardening, wildlife gardening and recycled gardening - each with easy sustainability projects to inspire everyone's in ner eco-kid. Learn how to grow organic vegetables and herbs, how to attract awesome bees, butterflies and birds to your area, and how to make sustainable garden containers from household waste. This book helps children learn about conservation, recycling and sustainability in simple and practical ways, while getting them outdoors learning about plants and wildlife. They will learn to build a mini nature reserve, grow staple ingredients themselves, plant a bee-friendly garden, provide homes for native wildlife and much more. Whether you have a big garden or a small windowsill, you can do your bit to make the world a greener place. ...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

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

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

$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

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

The Worm Book: The Complete Guide to Gardening and Composting with Worms by Loren Nancarrow; Janet Hogan Taylor

$30.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

After spilling the secrets of natural pest control in "Dead Snails Leave No Trails", Taylor and Nancarrow are back with this handy and comprehensive guide that celebrates that modest hero of the new organic gardening revolution: the worm. Topics include building a worm bin, making a yard and garden worm friendly, vermicomposting, and more ...Show more