Gardening with Children Made Simple

A foolproof guide for parents and teachers on how to set up and manage a school gardening club. Such clubs are burgeoning in popularity and deliver many aspects of the national curriculum from science, PE and English to citizenship, etc. This is uniquely structured to coincide with term times, so that plants and produce are not left to languish in the school holidays.

Winner of Garden Media Guild Award for Young Gardener Initiative and recommended by BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time, Dominic Murphy's 'In The Playground Potting Shed' relates how he helped his local school establish a garden and grow a stunning array of flowers, fruit and vegetables during term-time. Week by week, he describes the small triumphs and inevitable setbacks he encountered while getting the gardening club off the ground, and shares friendly advice on everything from environmentally friendly pest control to avoiding troublesome varieties of vegetables. The result is a timely and inspiring guide that is guaranteed to get young people gardening. About the Author Dominic Murphy is former Gardening Editor of The Guardian and now works at Friends of the Earth. He lives in Dorset with his family, where he keeps chickens and tends his own well-stocked garden.

272pp Paperback ISBN: 978-0852652091