Children are rediscovering the pleasures and rewards from gardening and having home-grown fresh produce that their great grandparents enjoyed. The Yates Young gardener covers all the basics of gardening, including soil types, compost, friendly insects and deadly pests, sunshine, sunshine, water and nutrients are all explained simply and directly, with gardening related activities, puzzles and games to make the experience as enjoyable as it is informative.

With gardening projects and experiements, a lifelong fascination with the transformation of seed and seedling into fruit, vegetable or flower is guaranteed.

What do I need to make a garden?
What plants can I eat from my garden?
Is spaghetti squash a plate of flat pasta?

If you want to know more about growing your own juicy tomatoes, crunchy carrots and tasty strawberries, then this is the book for you. Find out what tools you need and how to make seeds grow into fruit, flowers or vegetables. Learn how to grow a pumpkin with your name on it, how you can make a living tepee and how to grow a cucumber inside a bottle. Discover who your garden friends are and find out who’s just waiting to munch on your juicy new plants.

Check out the:
Jokes
Games and puzzles
Experiments
And that’s not all - there are some amazing plant facts to learn and lots of fun things to do and make.

Yates has been inspiring gardeners, young and old, since 1883.

About the Author:

Janice Marriott is an award-winning childrens writer, of both fiction and non-fiction. A passionate gardener, she works as a free-lance writer and lives in Wellington in a perfect cottage garden. Illustrator Elena Petrov is an art teacher, and lives and works in Melbourne.