Would you like to grow delicious vegetables, fragrant herbs, or colorful flowers without using chemicals that can harm the environment? If so, organic gardening is for you. In easy steps, this book will help you choose the right types of plants for the soil and sunlight you have in your garden, enrich your soil with natural products like compost, and prevent pests in ways that are not harmful to wildlife. It will even show you how to build your own worm composter. Organic Gardening for Kids guides you through the process of creating a special place that will not only provide you and your family with organic food and ornamental flowers, but also attract butterflies, birds, and other local wildlife.
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After introducing the purpose of organic gardening and the historical use and misuse of chemicals in farming, this practical book presents basic information about soil, sun, and water along with advice on choosing plants and caring for them. Beginning with planting seedlings indoors, Scholl discusses creating a garden and advises readers on dealing with weeds and insect pests. Sidebars carry tips such as how to tell whether the garden soil is clay or sandy, acidic or alkaline. A colorful photo or diagram brightens nearly every page, and though some of the illustrations are mainly decorative, others convey information useful to novice gardeners. Back matter includes lists of source books and recommended reading, a glossary, and detailed instructions for making and maintaining a worm compost bin. Although readers may sometimes wish for more detail, this volume offers useful information for children new to gardening. Grades 4-7. --Carolyn Phelan
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Elizabeth Scholl has been an organic gardener for almost twenty years. She is certified by the National Wildlife Federation as a Habitat Steward, and helped establish an organic garden known as a schoolyard habitat, which provides food, water, cover, and a place to raise young for local wildlife at an elementary school. Elizabeth is a writer of children s educational materials. She has published many books and articles on gardening, nature, and environmental topics. When not writing and gardening, Elizabeth enjoys reading, hiking, watching birds and other wildlife, and bicycling. She lives in Northern New Jersey with her husband, three children, dog, and two very mischievous cats.
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