The ABC Book of Gardening for Kids

Digging, planting, clipping, watering, getting dirty — gardening is lots of fun!

The ABC Book of Gardening for Kids is brimming with information, activities and fun craft ideas to help children explore the world of plants. It encourages children of all ages to create and care for their own garden.

Find out how to make organic compost, worm farms and even a special tea for plants. Grow a mini rainforest in an old fish tank and a mini desert in a pot. Make an easy no dig garden and build a pea teepee! Read about how to grow all sorts of fruit, vegetables and flowers in pots, rambling gardens or in a stack of old tyres.

Try out the great seed craft ideas and make some crazy, hairy stocking creatures!

Find out which tree is the loneliest in the world and which plants eat insects.

Helen Cushing is a horticulturalist and works for ABC TV’s ‘Gardening Australia’. She has worked in nurseries, landscaping and in horticultural training