Publisher's Synopsis
A Square Metre 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 the USA and around the world. In Square Metre 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 SMGs. Square Metre Gardening is a metric adaptation of the Square Foot method that was created for readers outside the USA who want to try it. Because of its simple principles and fast payoff, it is a perfect method 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 Metre 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, you can impart many valuable life lessons-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, colourful new book captures the essence of growing edibles for anyone, regardless of age: it is fun and rewarding.
