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Gardening with Emma
Grow and Have Fun: A Kid-to-Kid Guide
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By Emma Biggs
By Steven Biggs
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Thirteen-year-old Emma Biggs is passionate about gardening and eager to share her passion with other kids!
Gardening with Emma is a kid-to-kid guide to growing healthy food and raising the coolest, most awesome plants while making sure there’s plenty of fun. With plants that tickle and make noise, tips for how to grow a flower stand garden, and suggestions for veggies from tiny to colossal, Emma offers a range of original, practical, and entertaining advice and inspiration. She provides lots of useful know-how about soil, sowing, and caring for a garden throughout the seasons, along with ways to make play spaces among the plants. Lively photography and Emma’s own writing (with some help from her gardening dad, Steve) capture the authentic creativity of a kid who loves to be outdoors, digging in the dirt.
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The mission of Storey Publishing is to serve our customers by publishing practical information that encourages personal independence in harmony with the environment.
Edited by Carleen Madigan and Lisa H. Hiley
Art direction and book design by Carolyn Eckert
Text production by Jennifer Jepson Smith
Cover photography by © Donna Griffith, www.donnagriffith.com
Illustrations by © Rob Hodgson
Map, see Get Your Own Space!, by © Emma Biggs
© 2019 by Steven Biggs
Ebook production by Kristy L. MacWilliams
Ebook version 1.0
January 22, 2019
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Biggs, Emma (Emma Vivian), 2005– author. | Biggs, Steven A., 1971– author.
Title: Gardening with Emma : grow and have fun : a kid-to-kid guide / by Emma Biggs and Steven Biggs.
Description: North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018021360 (print) | LCCN 2018027775 (ebook) | ISBN 9781612129266 (ebook) | ISBN 9781612129259 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Gardening—Juvenile literature.
Classification: LCC SB457 (ebook) | LCC SB457 .B54 2019 (print) | DDC 635—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018021360
Dedication
To Mom, Shelley Biggs, who doesn't mind tomato stains on my clothes (at least my old clothes) and dirt under my fingernails. And to Nana Joanne, who always had the nicest gardens and who I remember when I am in my garden.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to everyone Dad and I interviewed for this book: John Bagnasco, Robert Chapman, Linda Crago, Cristina da Silva, Owen, Jack, and Tom DeKay, Phil Hunt, Niki Jabbour, Cathy Kozma, Craig LeHoullier, Colette Murphy, Leanne Rabinowitz, Denise Schreiber, Simon Southwell, Jessica and Ty Walliser, and Ellen Zachos. And a big thank you to photographers Donna Griffith, Kim Lowe, and Mars Vilaubi, and illustrator Rob Hodgson, for their wonderful work.
Thank you to the expert gardeners who inspired me: Chris Gark, Linda Crago, Colette Murphy, and my neighbor Joe Pires.
Thank you to Mom and Donna Young for being another set of eyes.
Contents
Why I Wrote This Book
Chapter 1: Garden ABCs
Chapter 2: Great Gardens for Kids
A to Z Garden
For Color Lovers
Rainbow Veggies
Grow a Flower Stand
Tickling Garden
Totally Tasty Tomatoes
Grow a Pizza
A Garden of Sounds
A Giant's Garden
Cool Containers
Weird and Wonderful "Wow!" Garden
Make a Play Space
Garden on Straw
Birds, Bees, and Butterflies
Build a Bug Garden
Backyard Fruit Plants
Flowers That Look, Smell, and Taste Good
Small Surprises
Delightful Discoveries
Chapter 3: A Bit of Practical Advice
Chapter 4: Fall and Winter Garden Fun
Metric Conversions
My Top 130 Tomatoes
Other Storey Books You Will Enjoy
Share Your Experience!
Why I Wrote This Book
I've been helping my dad in the garden since I was little. It started with watering plants and making mud stew. I loved having rides in the wheelbarrow, too! From there I helped Dad make gardens and plant seeds. My first garden had some watermelons and cherry tomatoes. When I was in grade one, I gave a presentation to my school about gardening.
Now I have my own gardens — a few of them, actually. I'm 12, so I guess I really haven't gardened that long, but I've gardened a long time for a kid. I love it. And I've always wanted to write a book about gardening. When I was little, I made books by stapling together my garden drawings, and I made signs for Dad when he gave garden talks or had a table at gardening events. When his first book came out, I made signs that said, "By Steven Biggs, helped by Emma."
I've had fun writing this book with Dad. Now I can write, "By Emma Biggs, helped by Steven."
Kids Are Not Grown-Ups!
Kids have different ideas about gardening than grown-ups do. To understand what grown-ups want, we need to understand how they think. Mostly it seems grown-ups want their gardens to look good for when other grown-ups come visit! For a grown-up, looking good means straight rows, no weeds, and level soil. They want the garden to be tidy. This means they might not want us kids in the garden — because kids can "mess up" gardens. It's about looks.
Here are a few things grown-ups don't want kids to do in a garden.
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“It is so refreshing to discover a kid’s gardening book written by a kid for other kids …. Emma’s practical gardening tips are a win for the whole family!” — Sarah Pounders at kidsgardening.org
“Emma Biggs inspires kids of all ages to get their hands dirty, their feet muddy, and their thumbs green!” — Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, The Nature Principle, and Vitamin N
“Emma shares a green wisdom and knowledge that is as deeply rooted as an oak tree. She is sure to inspire other kids to dig in and grow with their gardens.” — Sharon Lovejoy, author of Sunflower Houses, Roots Shoots Buckets Boots, and Trowel Error
“Simply flipping through Gardening with Emma had me ready to get my hands dirty and get absorbed in new projects with my kids. Along with fun photos and illustrations, this book has a breadth and depth that makes it destined to become that tattered-with-loving-use, go-to reference and gardening-debate resolver for children and parents for many years to come.” Brad Long, chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author
“Chock-full of startlingly deep and fresh insights, this book has a whole lot to teach about how to make gardening the right mix of work and joy.” — Wayne Roberts, PhD, city food policy expert
“A wonderfully refreshing book that explores gardening from a kid’s perspective, Gardening with Emma will make you smile, laugh out loud, and fill you with hope about the next generation. Yes, it's filled with heartfelt stories and useful gardening information, but the photos, illustrations, and tone of the book are all about having fun, and that's what gardening should always be about.” Doug Oster, Home and Garden Editor, Everybody Gardens, Tribune-Review
- On Sale
- Jan 22, 2019
- Page Count
- 144 pages
- Publisher
- Storey
- ISBN-13
- 9781612129259
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