Product Description

Over the course of a year, Dominic Murphy helped his local school create a beautiful and productive garden that supplied the kitchen with vegetables and the children with flowers to take home. Starting out with a battered polytunnel and two patches of waterlogged clay, Dominic records the setbacks and small triumphs he encountered as he got the gardening club off the ground. The result is a unique and practical guide to getting your garden to fruit and flower before the school holidays. This timely book will inspire young people to get gardening whether at home or at school, with their parents, teachers, or both. Together with suggestions for outdoor-related activities and projects to bring gardening into the classroom, it may even get children to eat the vegetables that they've grown!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104240 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

Wish I'd read this when we were starting out
The Playground Potting Shed is an extremely accessible read. The author shares what he's learned (often the hard way) and the joys of getting involved in school life via the gardening with children route. Interspersed with the author's tale charting his club's progress is lots of practical information about how to actually grow, care for and harvest crops successfully within the limitations imposed by the school year and timetable. There are also lots of suggestions provided for activities to help children learn while gardening. I would recommend it for anyone trying to set up a school gardening club from scratch - I wish I'd had this when we started out(I'm a parent governor who helped set up a garden club in an inner city primary school). Having said that I'm sure anyone interested in gardening with children or already involved in a similar project would find it an enjoyable and stimulating read.

school gardening
I run a school garden club and found this book really interesting and helpful . It's author ran a garden club for younger children than my secondry school lot but alot of the info relates to any age and there are some great ideas and hints .