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

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

Stanley Jr. Gardening Is Awesome by Chris Peterson; STANLEY® Jr.

$33.00 NZD

Category: Gardening | Series: STANLEY® Jr

STANLEY® Jr. Gardening is Awesome gets kids building and learning in the garden with a dozen fun projects. Kids can jump right in with an introduction to gardening. A complete basics section on vegetables, fruits, flowers, trees, and shrubs kicks things off. You'll also learn how to make super soil and keep plants happy with the right amount of sunlight and water. A complete garden gear guide gets you ready for growing. The rest of the book is all about the projects. Chapters and projects include: • Gardening How-Tos shows you how to test soil drainage and start plants in an egg carton. • Great Bed Gardens sets you up for success when planting a row garden, a colourful summer flower garden, and more. • Container Gardening shows you how to grow strawberries in a 5-Gallon bucket and create a beautiful bulb box. • Raised Bed Plots feature a square foot garden, uplifted herb garden, and even a vertical garden! With clearly written steps and helpful photographs, the aim is for kids to lead. STEAM/STEM learning opportunities are part of the fun as well! Fun facts and explorations accompany the projects throughout the book, highlighting everything from composting chemistry to the maths behind a square foot garden. Kids are encouraged to develop a "maker" mentality, fostering creative problem-solving and open-ended exploration. Build and explore in the garden!   ...Show more

Grow Your Own 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

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

My First Gardening Book: 35 Easy and Fun Projects for Budding Gardeners by Ryland Peters & Small

$25.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

If you're a budding gardener, you can discover how to sow and grow successfully with My First Gardening Book. In Chapter 1, Getting Started, you will learn all the basics, such as how to prepare soil, sow seeds, choose plants and maintain your garden. In Chapter 2, Grow Your Own, put your skills to good use with projects such as the Tasty Herb Pot, Sunflower Alley and Eggshell Gardens. Chapter 3, Garden Decorations, shows you innovative ways to brighten up your garden, including Painted Pots and Ice Mobiles, and in Chapter 4, Garden Crafts you can combine gardening and craft activities, with fun creations such as Lavender Bags and Pretty Seed Packets. All the projects are explained in child-friendly language so that you can garden independently. You will soon enjoy all the rewards of your work as you watch your plants and flowers grow and blossom. ...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

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

The Children's Garden: Loads of Things to Make and Grow by Matthew Appleby

$33.00 NZD

Category: Gardening

A garden can be a place for discovery, creativity and fun, and a space that encourages children to enjoy and engage with the natural world. Through 52 exciting family projects, this book inspires parents and their children to play and learn in the garden, with activities including nature trails, cooking , crafting and growing plants and vegetables. Ex-primary teacher Matthew Appleby (author of The Allotment Planner, 2013) is the expert voice behind the book. Appleby has two sons and has tapped into his first-hand experience of parenting and teaching to devise these seasonal projects for every week of the year. The Children's Garden is the perfect companion for families looking to discover the magic and adventure their gardens have to offer. ...Show more

Kid's Gardening Tool Set by .

$14.00 NZD

Category: Crafts and Science

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

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