Square Foot Gardening with Kids: Learn Together:Gardening basicsScience and mathWater conservationSelf-sufficiencyHealthy eating (All New Square Foot Gardening) by Mel Bartholomew


Square Foot Gardening with Kids: Learn Together:Gardening basicsScience and mathWater conservationSelf-sufficiencyHealthy eating (All New Square Foot Gardening)
Title : Square Foot Gardening with Kids: Learn Together:Gardening basicsScience and mathWater conservationSelf-sufficiencyHealthy eating (All New Square Foot Gardening)
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Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 452
Publication : First published January 1, 2014

A Square Foot Garden is more than just a perfect place to grow vegetables—it is an ideal environment for sharing and learning with kids of all ages. This book teaches you how. For two generations, Mel Bartholomew’s top-selling Square Foot Gardening books have made his revolutionary system for growing vegetables available to millions of people. In Square Foot Gardening with Kids, Mel reveals all of the tips, tricks, and fun projects he has used over the decades in one of his most cherished pursuits: teaching youngsters to build and grow their own kid-sized SFGs. Because of its simple principles and fast payoff, Square Foot Gardening is perfect for children. The easy geometry of the gridded box breaks the complex world of gardening into digestible bites that are easy to approach and understand for enthusiastic young learners, and the sequence of tasks required to grow plants from seeds is repeatable and reassuring. Whether you’re a grandparent, parent, teacher, coach, or any kind of role model to young people, Square Foot Gardening with Kids offers you the proven methods Mel has developed himself to entertain and amaze the kid in all of us. And, in the process, many valuable life lessons can be learned—such as the importance of following instructions and doing your chores, basic skills like counting and water conservation, and learning to appreciate the nature of food and why it is important to respect it. But more than anything, this clever, colorful new book captures the essence of growing edibles for anyone, regardless of age: it is fun and rewarding.

Square Foot Gardening with Kids: Learn Together:Gardening basicsScience and mathWater conservationSelf-sufficiencyHealthy eating (All New Square Foot Gardening) Reviews

  • Marie

    Sometimes the “kid” version loses the content. This was a let down.

  • Alexandria Skinner

    Meh. I was really hoping for a bit more creative and inspirational projects to do with children than the ones offered in this book. In my view, it does not add enough beyond what one could learn from the adult version of square foot gardening, to make it worthwhile to take up the space on my library shelf.

  • Mary Dooley iv

    I've never deluded myself that I'd be a successful homeschooling parent, so I'm not sure why I thought I'd somehow get my children to participate in planting a garden-- maybe it was for my own "inner child?" Even so, I'm just not that structured. I did try a raised garden similar to the type proposed in the book, but I- alone & unaccompanied by kids- basically went my own way, once the soil was ready. It's more peaceful and relaxing that way!

  • Ietrio

    nice, yet quite deceitful. the square foot gardening is done in boxes at lest 3 feet by 3 feet. and, of course, the boy does the manly things with the man and the girl can watch. after all he is the doer and she is the breeder. if there would be an aftermath to this book, the girl will cook and the boy will enjoy the soup.

  • Sara

    If you've read the original book, you don't need to read this one. But it's great and full of ideas to incorporate kids into the process. And also how to teach them all sorts of things. It's definitely a good book to bring into a homeschooling environment, I think.

  • A.E.M. A.E.M.

    Excellent ideas for gardening with kids, and easily modifiable.

  • Karen Duvall

    A decent book to get parents started in helping kids grow a love of gardening.

  • Heather

    This was a quick read and full of fun ideas. I have been debating how to do our garden as we just moved into a new home. I enjoyed exploring SFG while reading about ways to get the kids excited about gardening.

  • Kathryn

    Great concept. I borrowed this from the library because the hold list for the original/updated "Square Foot Gardening" book is forever long. Some of the info is in the book and the principals (which I was after) are there. This book just has you use a smaller box for kids and has a lot of suggestions (some good, some sort of whatever) for engaging kids in gardening and using it as a teaching tool for many other disciplines. I don't have kids, so I'm probably not the best reviewer for this one!

  • Miranda

    If you've read Square Foot Gardening, you already know the basics, and probably won't need to read this one unless you want the extra lesson help. This is the same thing as the adult book on a smaller scale. The added bonus here is that they've put together mini lessons you can teach to your kids or use in a classroom setting. They cover math, science, economics, art, recycling, and a bunch more. This would be great for homeschoolers, or for those who want to add more to what their children are already learning at school. For me, I just wanted to see if there were any extra tips I didn't catch in the first book.

  • Penny McGill

    This one had a great feel to it but was a little too exact for us. If a young family were interested in the beginning steps of getting a garden together then this might suit. We are a little too free-form (destined to fail, spending too much money on seeds and plants, endlessly thinking that strawberries will succeed but they don't) for this book.

  • Cinnamon

    If you own Mel's other books, don't bother with this one. It's the same info. just smaller boxes & kid friendly plants.

  • April

    Found this to be an easy read with lots of good information!

  • Megan

    If you've read the main SFG book, you don't need this, but I'm still happy I read it. It was a quick, easy read, full of Mel's optimism. Mostly it made me think about all the things my kids already learned last year while gardening. There were a few nice botany pictures tossed in, a few nice ideas, and I learned the difference between a spore and a seed. The main SFG book actually does a very nice job talking about kids and gardening; this just elaborated a bit more.