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Photographs and easy-to-read text explain the planning and planting of a vegetable garden.

Discusses all aspects of vegetable gardening from choosing tools and preparing the soil to harvesting the crop.

A step-by-step guide to growing carrot tops, orange seeds, avocado pits, garlic greens sweet potatoes.

This book explains how almost everything we eat grows from just a small seed - from how a seed sprouts and how fruits grow from flowers by pollination, to how different plants produce vegetables, fruits, leaves, roots and grains.

Particularly suited for beginners, or those with poor soil, Mel Bartholomew's guide to effective gardening explains how to get huge yields from a small space. Square metre gardening (SMG) is based on a grid of 1-metre squares, offering numerous opportunities for lessons in math, science, and other subjects. Includes suggestions for activities.

Introduces the activities of gardening and farming and discusses what is involved in growing fruits and vegetables.

The book explains how almost everything we eat comes from seeds -- flour, rice, carrots, even chocolate. How seeds germinate, how bees and the wind help flowers, and how plants grow and are processed until they reach the table.