A Kids' guide to growing fruit and vegetables in New Zealand.

The Tui NZ Kids' is a highly illustrated and attractive guide that teaches young gardeners about growing plants, vegetables and fruit at home.

• Motivation, advice and ideas to help children develop gardening knowledge in a format that is easy to understand and apply.
• Contains all the essential information you need to start a garden plus information on the most popular plants to start with
• How to design a garden and what tools are needed
• How to protect your plants from pests and diseases
• Planting schedules and a handy calendar & notes section
• Recipes using your produce are also included as well as crafts, trivia and key tips
• The ‘Plants A – Z’ section details information on fast establishing and easy-to-grow crops like peas, strawberries and sunflowers.

The Tui NZ Kids’ Garden is an essential handbook for any young gardener.

See inside sample pages:
http://www.penguin.co.nz/…_extract.pdf

Review
by Stuff.co.nz, Sage Forest

"I think this is a must-have book for the novice gardener of all ages.

The clean and colourful design by Amy Clay makes the picture-rich information easy to comprehend, and it has a sensible plastic jacket in case it ends up in the garden for reference.

It features a planting calendar and starts with the basics of how plants work, protecting them, sprouts, types of gardens one could make, pests, worms, compost and companion planting.

It covers a large range of veggies, as well as mushrooms, cactus and flowers.

I particularly like the little titbits of strange information: budgies like sprouted birdseed, how to grow a gherkin in a bottle, the largest radish in the world.

Best of all it has recipes with each vegetable. A hand symbol is used when an adult needs to supervise.

The only thing that annoyed me about the book was promoting the use of Tui products, like their child-safe slug and snail killer. A small price to pay though for a fine book.

A great present for a child who has an interest in nature."

Contents

• How plants work.
• Getting a garden started.
• Plant protection.
• What to do with pesky pests and dreaded diseases.
• Wonderful worms and compost.
• Companion planting.
• Design and decoration.
• Ideas on using recycled material in the garden.
• Part two features 22 favourite plants, vegetables and fruit all alphabetically listed. The double-page spreads are bursting with information including recipes using the produce, crafts, trivia and key tips.