About This Book:
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.
*Review Contributed by Cherokee Crum, Blog Manager and Staff Reviewer*
Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots is the most delightful book about gardening that I’ve read in a while.
Like learning from your elders, this book has an instructional narrative containing sections on recommended hardy plants, various gardens to grow (like the Pizza Patch or The Snacking and Sipping Garden), forts/teepees for your children to hideaway in by growing sunflowers or hollyhocks or morning glories, using assorted planters, many activities and even a few recipes and poems. Several of these projects are written in a larger scale, but could be downsized to fit the readers area.
The author’s many years of personal experience, specifically with gardens and children, together, made everything seem so much more doable with everything else going on.
I love the vibrant colors and drawings throughout.
The illustrations are charming and lifelike, reminiscent of older hand-written field guides. These inspired my children to draw what they saw around them while working or playing outside.
While not written for every climate, this book certainly makes the concept of a garden more fun and less daunting for novice gardeners looking for inspiration.
Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots would make a wonderful baby shower gift or addition to a family bookshelf.
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