Roots Shoots Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761110569)

Pizza Patches & Bean Tunnels: Kids' Garden Projects to Cultivate Wonder

Here are 12 spirited, easy-to-implement ideas for theme gardens that parents and kids can grow together, connecting children to nature through gardening. Each project includes a plan and the planting recipe--as well as a "Discovery Walk," activities and crafts to make with what you grow. And each is illustrated with author Sharon Lovejoy's lyrical watercolors.

There's the Pizza Patch, a giant-size wheel garden planted in "slices" of tomatoes, zucchini, oregano, and basil. A Flowery Maze to get lost in. A Moon Garden of night-blooming flowers, including a moonflower tent. And Mother Nature's Medicine Chest.
Discovery Walks teach kids how the gardens work, and a chapter on gardening basics includes a child-friendly 10-Minute Plan for planting and maintenance, plus a list of the top 20 plants guaranteed to make gardeners out of kids.

Author: Sharon Lovejoy
ISBN-10: 0761110569
ISBN-13: 9780761110569
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1999
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.22h x 8.18w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 46
Ingram Children's Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 45
Beyond the Cover Author Interv 03/01/2000 pg. 7
School Library Journal 02/01/2000 pg. 113