Dig, Plant, Grow: A Kids Guide to Gardening

by Felder Rushing

During the past ten years, children's gardens have become popular additions to botanical gardens across the U.S. Dig, Plant, Grow - A Kid's Guide to Gardeningwritten by the ever popular Felder Rushing. The book also includes gardening projects such as bean teepee, stepping stones and creating?plant labels.? Various types of gardens, such as a Japanese garden, will be explored.??Dig, Plant, Grow also?discusses the different aspects of nature (such as insects, flower parts, types of leaves) and how they all affect the garden. Colorful symbols explain which plants attract butterflies and other visitors. "Grown-Up Stuff" that addresses a curriculum and how gardening impacts different subjects in schools.

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Felder Rushing is a 10th-generation American gardener whose pioneer ancestors settled across the Southeast, bringing many plants with them. Rushing's overstuffed, quirky cottage garden has been featured in many TV programs and magazines (including a cover of Southern Living), and includes a huge variety of weather-hardy plants along with a collection of folk art. There is no turfgrass, just plants, yard art, and "people places."

The author or co-author of 15 gardening books (including several national award winners) and former Extension Service urban horticulture specialist has written thousands of gardening columns in syndicated newspapers, and has had hundreds of articles and photographs published in regional and national garden magazines, including Garden Design, Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, Better Homes and Gardens, Fine Gardening, Organic Gardening, and the National Geographic. He has hosted a television program that was shown across the South, and appeared many times on other TV garden programs. Felder currently cohosts a call-in garden program over public radio with his longtime friend Dr. Dirt called The Gestalt Gardener.

Rushing has served many years as a distinctly non-stuffy board member of the American Horticulture Society, national director of the Garden Writers Association, and member of the National Youth Gardening Committee. Felder gives over a hundred lectures a year, coast to coast at flower shows, horticultural and plant society meetings, and Master Gardener conferences. Believing that too many would-be gardeners are intimidated by a crush of "how-to" experts ("We are daunted, not dumb," he says), Felder uses an offbeat, "down home" approach rife with humorous anecdotes and garden-irreverent metaphors, zany observations, and stunning photography and to help gardeners get past the "stinkin' rules" of horticulture.

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

This little book has lots of garden projects for kids (Easy Projects) and the second half is Easy Plants. I liked the project ideas, very useful to cure the "bored in summer" blues.

[CFAITC]

Through the colorful photographs, this book is a resource for creating garden artwork, planting beds, and more.