The basics of setting up a flower or vegetable bed (and Charles is an advocate of starting with a small area) * Sowing seeds indoors and straight into the soil * Spotting what's a weed and what's not * Planting vegetables and fruit * Easy annual flowers * Growing wildlife-friendly plants * Ways to attract insects, birds and other wildlife to your garden * Making your own compost * making biodegradable plant pots * Seasonal planting, including projects like growing a giant sunflower (and seeing whose grows tallest) and growing and carving your own Halloween pumpkin * Vegetables need company! Planting close together * What grows when? Simple visual chart of Spring, summer, autumn and winter growing * What is healthy soil? (Illustrated non-fiction spread, inc. fun illustrations of worms, etc)
Products specifications
Author
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Charles Dowding |
Pub Date
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19/01/2023 |
Binding
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Hardback |
Pages
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64 |
Country
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United Kingdom |
GBPPrice
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12.99 |
Availability
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Available |
Don't like endless digging and weeding? Don't let that stop you from getting into gardening! The simple and achievable gardening projects in this book are perfect for parents and young children to do together. All are based on Charles Dowding's trademark no-dig technique, which perfectly lends itself to gardening with little ones who can't manage heavy digging and who will quickly grow bored of endless weeding. Projects are broken down into easy, step-by-step processes, designed to be carried out by children. Attractive, full-bleed photography is supplemented with fun illustration and fully illustrated factual spreads. Running throughout the gardening projects are extra little facts about plants and wildlife, as well as things to look out for when you are outdoors.