A CHILD'S ORGANIC GARDEN

by Lee Fryer and Leigh Bradford

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Used softcover book in excellent condition, 88 pages. Clean, tight copy with no marks, tears, loose or missing pages.

Grow your own delicious nutritious foods

A Child's Organic Garden by Lee Fryer and Leigh Bradford is an appealing book. It is a delightful story of how one young girl and her grandfather planned, planted and harvested a beautiful and bountiful organic garden. It makes organic gardening understandable for children, fascinating for adults, and solves the age-old parental dilemma of how to turn What's Good for You into great fun! It will encourage parents and grandparents to get their offspring involved in growing chemical-free vegetables in the back yard.

Lee Fryer, a gardener and author of seven previous books, shows his granddaughter, Leigh Bradford the secrets of seeds, tools, compost, planting, fish fertilizers, weeds, friendly insects and predators as they plant and harvest an organic garden.

Grow your own

• Sugar-sweet peas
• Spicy radishes
• Robust potatoes
• Tender green beans
• Crunchy corn
• Full-flavour tomatoes
• Tangy cucumbers
• And lots more delicious vgetables.

Written for older children and adults, it contains many black and white photos, drawings and diagrams. This award winning book tells the exciting story of how Lee and Leigh-Leigh step-by-step planned and grew an up-to-date organic garden and shared the delicious nutritious veggies with her friends.

This book is an Australian edition of the original US publication. Weights and measurements are given in both metric and imperial.

About the author

Lee Fryer was born in 1908. He was one of America's leading authors and advisers in the field of organic gardening. He wrote seven books on horticulture, foods and nutrition, including Earth Foods, Ecological Gardening, The Bio-Gardener's Bible and the New Organic Manifesto.

Leigh Bradford was born in 1981. When Leigh-Leigh was eight years old when she decided to learn about organic gardening. After successfully growing vegetables without pesticides in her own garden, she helped her grandfather, Lee Fryer, write A Child's Organic Garden: Grow Your Own Delicious Nutritious Foods

A Child's Organic Garden by Lee Fryer and Leigh Bradford