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RHS Get Growing: A Family Guide to Gardening Inside and Out
Put the fun into gardening with this beautifully illustrated guide to growing plants indoors and out.
For parents and children who enjoy engaging with the outdoors and want to do more activities together, this beautifully designed book explains how plants work, describes the building blocks of gardening, and shows how to grow everything from cacti to cucumbers. With great facts and practical projects, giving the reader a lot of information it's an ideal introduction for complete beginners, designed to inspire a life-long love of gardening.
For parents and children who enjoy engaging with the outdoors and want to do more activities together, this beautifully designed book explains how plants work, describes the building blocks of gardening, and shows how to grow everything from cacti to cucumbers. With great facts and practical projects, giving the reader a lot of information it's an ideal introduction for complete beginners, designed to inspire a life-long love of gardening.
176 pages, Hardcover
First published April 7, 2020
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March 24, 2020
I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.
This is a fantastic family book to share with your children. It has fantastic pictures and drawings that both children and adults alike will enjoy as well as a fantastic amount of information on all areas of gardening.
The book is broken down into sections which is useful and I enjoyed the science experiments within it too.
A delightful and informative book for any family library.
This is a fantastic family book to share with your children. It has fantastic pictures and drawings that both children and adults alike will enjoy as well as a fantastic amount of information on all areas of gardening.
The book is broken down into sections which is useful and I enjoyed the science experiments within it too.
A delightful and informative book for any family library.
April 8, 2020
This is a great book for families to use for nature studies or to get started gardening. It's filled with information on getting started with gardening and also with fun science projects to teach kids about how plants grow. Lots of beautiful color photos add to the appeal. I have to say that I disliked the color scheme of the illustrations (similar to the cover) and felt that it detracted from the book. That seems irrationally picky on my part, but it is what it is. Other than the strangely off-putting color scheme, I really enjoyed the book and highly recommend it. There is a ton of information in this book and there are lots of projects that kids will enjoy.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.
April 12, 2020
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the digital review copy! All thoughts and opinions are my own.
RHS Get Growing is the perfect resource for families that want to start a garden or want to fit more educational activities into their family gardening time. It includes many aspects of gardening, from starting a compost to planting seeds to propagating!
This illustrated guide to gardening will help you find the most ideal location in your garden for plants depending on the sun, location, and rain. It covers different types of soil and how to test its acidity. It shares the differences and benefits of container gardening and raised beds and even indoor plants and how to care for them. There's tons of information on veggie gardening, as well as fruits and herbs and it covers friendly and not-so-friendly insects and other garden visitors.
This book covers tons of little things that you wouldn't even think to worry about like keeping dust off of your indoor plants' leaves and how to garden on a slope or with too much shade or very little space. This book encourages families to get out and garden no matter what your circumstance, from little space to no space or maybe a too shaded yard or sloped yard.
There's tons of information in this book but also lots of educational experiments and how-to's that you can try out yourself! Learn how to start a terrarium and make a flower wreath or learn how to save seeds and grow kitchen scraps! There's plenty of hands-on material here to keep you and your children busy all year long! It even covers what to do in your garden within the four different seasons!
I love gardening and still learned a lot from this book. I think it's the perfect resource for families that want to start a garden or spend more time outdoors. It's full of fun illustrations and photos that will help children understand everything that goes into gardening and how fun and rewarding it can be!
This review was originally shared on my blog, Lazy Day Literature.
RHS Get Growing is the perfect resource for families that want to start a garden or want to fit more educational activities into their family gardening time. It includes many aspects of gardening, from starting a compost to planting seeds to propagating!
This illustrated guide to gardening will help you find the most ideal location in your garden for plants depending on the sun, location, and rain. It covers different types of soil and how to test its acidity. It shares the differences and benefits of container gardening and raised beds and even indoor plants and how to care for them. There's tons of information on veggie gardening, as well as fruits and herbs and it covers friendly and not-so-friendly insects and other garden visitors.
This book covers tons of little things that you wouldn't even think to worry about like keeping dust off of your indoor plants' leaves and how to garden on a slope or with too much shade or very little space. This book encourages families to get out and garden no matter what your circumstance, from little space to no space or maybe a too shaded yard or sloped yard.
There's tons of information in this book but also lots of educational experiments and how-to's that you can try out yourself! Learn how to start a terrarium and make a flower wreath or learn how to save seeds and grow kitchen scraps! There's plenty of hands-on material here to keep you and your children busy all year long! It even covers what to do in your garden within the four different seasons!
I love gardening and still learned a lot from this book. I think it's the perfect resource for families that want to start a garden or spend more time outdoors. It's full of fun illustrations and photos that will help children understand everything that goes into gardening and how fun and rewarding it can be!
This review was originally shared on my blog, Lazy Day Literature.
April 8, 2020
A complete guide to gardening that will engage the whole family. Gardening can bring families together. Starting with the basics each page has a how to that is easy and exciting to grasp. The book has 9 parts and they are as follows
Where Can you Grow
How do Plants Work
The Building blocks of Gardening
Get Growing Veggies
Get Growing Fruits
Get Growing Herbs
Get Growing Flowers and Wildlife Gardens
Get Growing Houseplants
What to do with your Garden in all seasons
This will make a great gift for families to get growing and enjoy the fruit of their labor.
Highly recommend.
A Special Thank you to Quartro Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.
Where Can you Grow
How do Plants Work
The Building blocks of Gardening
Get Growing Veggies
Get Growing Fruits
Get Growing Herbs
Get Growing Flowers and Wildlife Gardens
Get Growing Houseplants
What to do with your Garden in all seasons
This will make a great gift for families to get growing and enjoy the fruit of their labor.
Highly recommend.
A Special Thank you to Quartro Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.
February 17, 2020
A beautifully written gardening book, broken down into easy to understand terms. Get Growing is laid out perfectly into sections. The illustrations are cutesy and will appeal to all audiences. What I particularly liked were the Science projects to do with kids, as they are all feasible and will get kids of all ages interested in nature and Science. This book got me excited for gardening season, as I’ll be starting my seeds soon! Thank you to the publisher for the advance reader in exchange for my honest review.
May 25, 2020
RHS Get Growing: A Family Guide to Gardening Inside and Out is a comprehensive guide for families to establish their own sustainable home garden. The illustrations, photos, easy to follow directions, and explanations are easy to follow and perfect for not only parents to learn the ins and outs of gardening, but to share that knowledge in an easy-to-follow and fun way.
This beautiful guide offers detailed information on how to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, and other plants in every season. It also offers the building blocks of starting your garden, including how to test your soil. My favorite section is an offering of indoor experiments designed to teach us how plants and ecosystems work, how to make our own pesto with the basil from our garden, and fun projects like making an herbal wreath. It’s excellent for kids of 4 and older to better understand how things work and develop a love for gardening and being a part of making their own food.
We have been growing our own vegetables for years, and still learned a lot from this great little guide, I cannot wait to see how it impacts this year’s yield. My favorite thing is seeing how much more my son is involved this year. Part of this is due to age, being a year older, but he is also loving learning how the little seeds become food, instead of just seeing it as an excuse to play in the dirt.
If you are looking to learn more about gardening (indoors and outdoors) with your family I highly recommend this book.
This beautiful guide offers detailed information on how to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, and other plants in every season. It also offers the building blocks of starting your garden, including how to test your soil. My favorite section is an offering of indoor experiments designed to teach us how plants and ecosystems work, how to make our own pesto with the basil from our garden, and fun projects like making an herbal wreath. It’s excellent for kids of 4 and older to better understand how things work and develop a love for gardening and being a part of making their own food.
We have been growing our own vegetables for years, and still learned a lot from this great little guide, I cannot wait to see how it impacts this year’s yield. My favorite thing is seeing how much more my son is involved this year. Part of this is due to age, being a year older, but he is also loving learning how the little seeds become food, instead of just seeing it as an excuse to play in the dirt.
If you are looking to learn more about gardening (indoors and outdoors) with your family I highly recommend this book.
March 2, 2021
This book is PERFECT for the beginner gardener. If you’re already growing from seeds and maintaining your yard somewhat this book won’t be as mind blowing.
It goes through the science basics of how plants feed, how much to water and when, the gardening tools, types of garden layouts, how to prepare for and what to do within each season.
This book is directed at an audience that’s not situated along the equator, so either northwards of Tropic of Cancer or southwards of Tropic of Capricorn-
AKA someone that inhabits lands that have all 4 seasons and a somewhat temperate or colder climate ;)
It details how to grow vegetables, fruits, herbs, and indoor plants from a equator like origin: succulents, cacti, ferns, palms, carnivorous plants, etc.
The book also provides ecosystem friendly alternatives to usual pesticides, and way of growing a garden. It goes on about bringing in the wild life into your garden because it not only aids everything around it but your crops too!
In short, this is a well-rounded gardening book that also comes with fun facts and activities to do with your garden and produce that would’ve never occurred to me or are not so wide spread.
The illustrations and splendid, they’re minimalistic but well balanced with the chosen colour scheme. Not only does this make it pleasing to the eyes but also the incorporation of beautiful photographs of the outdoors and, well, plants! Just adds to one’s desire to be one with nature and GET GROWING!
It goes through the science basics of how plants feed, how much to water and when, the gardening tools, types of garden layouts, how to prepare for and what to do within each season.
This book is directed at an audience that’s not situated along the equator, so either northwards of Tropic of Cancer or southwards of Tropic of Capricorn-
AKA someone that inhabits lands that have all 4 seasons and a somewhat temperate or colder climate ;)
It details how to grow vegetables, fruits, herbs, and indoor plants from a equator like origin: succulents, cacti, ferns, palms, carnivorous plants, etc.
The book also provides ecosystem friendly alternatives to usual pesticides, and way of growing a garden. It goes on about bringing in the wild life into your garden because it not only aids everything around it but your crops too!
In short, this is a well-rounded gardening book that also comes with fun facts and activities to do with your garden and produce that would’ve never occurred to me or are not so wide spread.
The illustrations and splendid, they’re minimalistic but well balanced with the chosen colour scheme. Not only does this make it pleasing to the eyes but also the incorporation of beautiful photographs of the outdoors and, well, plants! Just adds to one’s desire to be one with nature and GET GROWING!
March 29, 2020
RHS Get Growing is a wonderful book for all ages! While this book is geared towards families learning how to garden together, this book can also be used for adult learners. As both an adult learner and avid gardener, i enjoyed this book and took away information i did not know previously.
At first look, the photography and graphic design is remarkable. The imagery is playful, colorful and inspiring! Each page is designed like a modern children's book meets a photo album. Personally, i would purchase this book on the visual appeal alone! I feel imagery can really "make or break" a gardening book, and RHS Get Growing is a fantastic example of imagery done well!
Many gardening facets are covered in this book. The descriptions and explanations are simple and effective for all ages. There are many DIYs and experiments to try. Each one is simple and can be done across all ages and in most environments! The DIY projects are wonderfully suited for families, someone who provides childcare or educational services, as well as adult learners.
All in all, i would recommend this book to a large audience of learners. I have already recommended this book to a few of my friends who have children and home school. I have added this book to my wish-list for my personal gardening book library!
At first look, the photography and graphic design is remarkable. The imagery is playful, colorful and inspiring! Each page is designed like a modern children's book meets a photo album. Personally, i would purchase this book on the visual appeal alone! I feel imagery can really "make or break" a gardening book, and RHS Get Growing is a fantastic example of imagery done well!
Many gardening facets are covered in this book. The descriptions and explanations are simple and effective for all ages. There are many DIYs and experiments to try. Each one is simple and can be done across all ages and in most environments! The DIY projects are wonderfully suited for families, someone who provides childcare or educational services, as well as adult learners.
All in all, i would recommend this book to a large audience of learners. I have already recommended this book to a few of my friends who have children and home school. I have added this book to my wish-list for my personal gardening book library!
February 18, 2020
RHS Get Growing by Holly Farrell is an amazing tool to use with your children, This book is packed with information and written in a fun and readable way. There are beautiful illustrations and wonderful photos on every page. The author gives a introduction and shares how to use the book. The chapters are as follows:
Where can you grow? (in the ground, raised beds, containers, ect.)
How do plants work? (roots shoots, water chain, ecosystems)
The building blocks of gardening. (how to identify a plant, where to get plants, showing seeds, feeding plants, watering plants, weeds and weeding, ect.)
Get Growing Veg (Peas, carrots, sweetcorn, tomatoes, ect.)
Get Growing Fruit (strawberries, raspberries, apples, ect.)
Get Growing Herbs (Basil, lavender, edible flowers ect.)
Get Growing flowers and wildlife gardens (Types of flowers, where the wild things are, art in the garden)
Get Growing Houseplants (leafy plants, air plants ect.)
What to do with your garden ( Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter)
Experiment Results and explinations
My children and I have really enjoyed this book and can't wait to use it more. This would make a great resource for school teachers to use in their classroom or for parents to use at home with their children!
Where can you grow? (in the ground, raised beds, containers, ect.)
How do plants work? (roots shoots, water chain, ecosystems)
The building blocks of gardening. (how to identify a plant, where to get plants, showing seeds, feeding plants, watering plants, weeds and weeding, ect.)
Get Growing Veg (Peas, carrots, sweetcorn, tomatoes, ect.)
Get Growing Fruit (strawberries, raspberries, apples, ect.)
Get Growing Herbs (Basil, lavender, edible flowers ect.)
Get Growing flowers and wildlife gardens (Types of flowers, where the wild things are, art in the garden)
Get Growing Houseplants (leafy plants, air plants ect.)
What to do with your garden ( Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter)
Experiment Results and explinations
My children and I have really enjoyed this book and can't wait to use it more. This would make a great resource for school teachers to use in their classroom or for parents to use at home with their children!
March 19, 2020
*I received this book from NetGalley in return for a honest review*
This was such a fun, colourful, and informative guide to plants and gardening great for kids and families, but also for everyone else who wants to be able to get something to grow. I love how it was divided into sections about different types of plants and how it was so detailed about all the different steps.
The experiments and projects are great for kids so that they can learn how best to grow these plants, vegetables, and flowers themselves and what is really happening. I also really loved the end of the book where it talks about what you can be doing in your garden every season of the year.
There are great parts of this book for everyone and I think it will be a great addition for any aspiring gardener.
This was such a fun, colourful, and informative guide to plants and gardening great for kids and families, but also for everyone else who wants to be able to get something to grow. I love how it was divided into sections about different types of plants and how it was so detailed about all the different steps.
The experiments and projects are great for kids so that they can learn how best to grow these plants, vegetables, and flowers themselves and what is really happening. I also really loved the end of the book where it talks about what you can be doing in your garden every season of the year.
There are great parts of this book for everyone and I think it will be a great addition for any aspiring gardener.
March 29, 2020
I requested and received an e-ARC of this book from NetGalley and Quatro Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Childrens in exchange for an honest review.
I am so glad I read this book before this year’s growing season started, this book provides a lot of great knowledge. I enjoyed reading all of the ‘Project ideas’ and ‘Did you know’ sections, I would have loved to try those projects as a child. Before I read this book, I had no idea what ‘bolting’ was or that it could be prevented by watering your plants more often, I wish I had known that when we lived in Ontario! I also enjoyed learning about ‘pips’ vs. store bought trees.
Overall, a great book for starting and maintaining a garden with easy to read and understand information.
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I am so glad I read this book before this year’s growing season started, this book provides a lot of great knowledge. I enjoyed reading all of the ‘Project ideas’ and ‘Did you know’ sections, I would have loved to try those projects as a child. Before I read this book, I had no idea what ‘bolting’ was or that it could be prevented by watering your plants more often, I wish I had known that when we lived in Ontario! I also enjoyed learning about ‘pips’ vs. store bought trees.
Overall, a great book for starting and maintaining a garden with easy to read and understand information.
#RHSGetGrowing #NetGalley
April 27, 2020
“How to” gardening books for children seem to be in short supply at most bookstores and libraries and this one is clearly intended to be used with adults or older siblings at the helm. Despite that, placement at elementary libraries is appropriate and could be used independently, to varying degrees, by many of those readers. I.lustrations are both sketches and truly beautiful photographs along with diagrams to augment instructions for creating a successful garden. Families desiring to make their garden a whole household endeavor would do well to use this book as a guide and to add some science to the project. Thanks for the dARC, Edelweiss.
May 20, 2020
A combination of illustrations and photographs make this an eye-catching instructional book for children and their parents. It clearly shows the ins and outs of gardening and includes Did You Know... boxes, experiments as well as well presented instructions. Chas.ters include, where you can grow, how plants work and how to grow a range of plants, fruits and vegetable.
I will include this book on https://childrenslibrarylady.com/gard... when I next update it.
Thank you to NetGallery for an advanced copy of the book!
I will include this book on https://childrenslibrarylady.com/gard... when I next update it.
Thank you to NetGallery for an advanced copy of the book!
February 25, 2020
This is much more than I was expected. RHS Get Growing isn't just a book teaching children about gardening. It is a full guide for how your family can begin growing plants together. It covers the needs of tons of plants as well as how to work in different spaces and terrain options. I love how simple and accessible it kept everything.
February 28, 2020
An excellent read for any gardener. It's full of information and ideas for growing plants as a family activity.
I liked the style of writing and how the books is organised.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
I liked the style of writing and how the books is organised.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.
March 2, 2020
Firstly, this book is absolutely beautiful. The designer did an amazing job !
Scondly, it is very handy and has a lot of information. It is easy to use and understand too ! Very accessible !
Also the activities are very apealing and I can imagine children loving them. I recommend !
Scondly, it is very handy and has a lot of information. It is easy to use and understand too ! Very accessible !
Also the activities are very apealing and I can imagine children loving them. I recommend !
September 15, 2021
I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
A great book for beginning gardeners. Lots of pictures and information. Could possibly be used as a resource for homeschool as well.
A great book for beginning gardeners. Lots of pictures and information. Could possibly be used as a resource for homeschool as well.
October 27, 2025
I loved it! A great introductory book for gardening at home! The pictures and illustrations are nothing but beautiful! It's full of ideas to experiment with in your own garden, and you want to highlight and remember everything!
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February 21, 2020Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
March 2, 2020
A gorgeous, easy-to-follow guide to gardening in any space.
Thank you, NetGalley, for the free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Thank you, NetGalley, for the free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
April 13, 2020
Very cute family-friendly guide to gardening, mostly food but also animal and bug friendly stuff too!
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