Customer Reviews

Kids Garden!: The Anytime, Anyplace Guide to Sowing & Growing Fun (Williamson Kids Can!)

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This is a great book for the novice gardener--whether you're an "innie" or an "outie" (where you garden--indoors or out). It has great ideas for kids gardening, such as fun containers (like tennis shoes) and a living teepee (poles with runner beans). I found it very helpful and informative for the layperson's interest in beginning gardening, as well.

The project ideas in this book are excellent. There are a wide variety of experiments, theme gardens, receipes for the harvest, etc. for both indoor and outdoor gardening.
Some of the suggestions for what to grow are a bit out-of-date, but the descriptions of what to look for are such that one could easily substitute the variety in the book for a more current one.
This book has been great for finding things to do with 4-H'ers, school kids, daycare kids, etc. It is very well done.

We have had great fun doing these simple projects - summer, winter, bulbs in winter, and easy to grow pole bean 'teepees' in summer. The authors point out that gardening contains life lessons for children: They learn the value of patience, and that you work first and get rewards after. Terrific for common sense learning.

I ordered this book without being able to see inside it because I like the Williamson Kids Can Series of books. They are very basic, straightforward, and have great information and ideas in them.

I love this book. I can read it with my children--and add in extra explanation when I want to. It covers the basics. It talks about basic gardening tools, gardening inside, gardening outside, companion planting (very, very basically), flower gardens, a few recipes, fun activities to see how things grow, and more. Of course, since it is a Williamson Kids Can book, the pictures are not in color, but they are outlines, so if you prefer color, you and your children could color the pages you do together as a way to remember what you did and write the date on the picture (even stick some pictures in the book!). Of all the books I looked at, this was the best for kids to read and for moms like me who want a basic, easy to read book. If you want to just dabble in gardening or you don't have a backyard, there's plenty of ways in this book to share the joy of how plants grow with your children. That was one thing I thought was especially neat about this book.

One assumption I would have made before reading this book was that you need a backyard to enjoy gardening with your kids. Not so! There's plenty you can do in an apartment, townhome, or condo. You can have an indoor greenhouse (in a box), you can have a few containers on a deck with plants, you can experiment with beans to see how they grow, or you can even have a cactus garden! Though I'd be nervous about the last one with kids unless you had really good gloves! One tip...I did put tabs on the pages I wanted to turn to frequently so I can flip to those pages in a jiffy with my kids.

This is the best and only book that I really loved for reading with my kids about gardening.

I love this book for me and for my kids. It has a bunch of great gardening tips for me and some unique ideas for fun things for my kids to do. I've learned a lot of good gardening tips for flowers and vegetables. I like that it has tips for indoor and outdoor gardening, too. It's fun and easy to use.