Following the enormous success of Grow Your Own Veg, here is the first bespoke 'grow your own' book for younger gardeners - and it also shows how you can eat what you sow! The authority, best practice and most reliable advice of The Royal Horticultural Society combined with the writing skills of a renowned garden writer and the only gardening expert on children's television in Britain. Step-by-step photography and easy to accomplish projects ensure that young gardeners gain early success and that their enthusiasm continues.

Edinburgh-trained Chris Collins has been the Blue Peter gardener since 2004. He has fronted and run the RHS Campaign for School Gardening that gives over 1 million UK kids access to school gardens. For adults, Chris presented the six-part series The Plantsman on BBC2 in 2003 and has just finished a new series of Garden Invaders for BBC1. He has just finished a series on Secret Gardens for ITV1's This Morning. The Royal Horticultural Society is at the forefront of a gardening revolution in which received wisdom is questioned and updated. This great gardening book for kids is the combined effort of the UK's biggest gardening charity and 40 years of Blue Peter gardening. Lia Leendertz writes about gardening for the Guardian's Weekend magazine. She is the author of several books, including The Half-hour Allotment and Conservatory and Greenhouse Gardening. Lia studied horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh and now lives in Bristol, where she has a garden, an allotment and is on the residents' committee of her local park.

Introduction HOW TO BE A GREAT GARDENER - Your own plot; Make a mini garden; Plant tubs, pots, and containers; Make a windowbox garden; Grow plants indoors; What shall I grow?; Weird and wonderful plants GET GROWING - What do I need?; Sow seeds outdoors; Sow seeds indoors; Care for baby seedlings; Water it, weed it, feed it GROW YOUR OWN - Top 10 easy-to-grow veg; Let's have some peas; Make a living lunch box; Plant a tomato tower; Grow a giant pumpkin; Have a bean feast; Grow a bag of potatoes; Plant a sweetcorn jungle; Train climbing cucumbers; Plant a stinky garlic garden; Sow a neverending salad bowl; Grow alien sci-fi veg; Make a strawberry fountain; Pick and mix your own fruit salad; Make a sprouting seed factory; Make a herb garden; Top 10 garden flowers; Make a flowerpot garden; Grow giant sunflowers; Make a miniature mountain garden; Sow a wild flower patch; Make a swamp garden GREEN GARDENING - Bird baths, pools, and ponds; Bird boxes and shelters; Make a birdfeeder cafe; Bat boxes and insect refuges; Build a wormery; Make your own compost; Create new plants for free OOPS! - What's gone wrong?; Keep pests away; Open a slug and snail bar; Make a scarecrow TIPS FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS - Health and safety advice; What not to grow - toxic or poisonous plants; Encouraging kids to keep a grow-your-own scrapbook or diary Credits and acknowledgments Index