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Even young children take gardening seriously and want to succeed. (Photo by Cadence Purdy)
Many gardening books for children take what I think of as the art project approach: here’s what you need, this is what you do, isn’t that cute?, now show it to Grandma. Very few books out there take children–or a child’s interest in gardening–seriously.
I prefer to regard children as apprentice gardeners, gradually acquiring more skills as the years go by, working their way up (at their own pace and interest level) to journeyman and eventually master gardener. As much as possible, I like to let them choose their own projects, plan the execution of them, and solve their own problems. Here are three books, supposedly for adults, that do just that.
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Tags: barbara ellis· deborah peterson· houseplants· jessica_walliser· millicent selsam· organic_gardening· pests· Vegetables