I received a free ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

A great book for beginning gardeners. Lots of pictures and information. Could possibly be used as a resource for homeschool as well.

Sadly, I was unable to download this book in time before it was archived and this I was not able to either read or review it. My apologies.

This is one of my favourite books on gardening! It's super children-friendly and encourages young minds to explore the natural world as well as science. It's the perfect resource for families that want to start a garden or add more education-focused activities to include children. I definitely will be looking for this book again when/if I have children in the future.
Not to mention the illustrations are amazing, and I absolutely adored the layout of the entire book!

I received an ARC from Netgalley and the publishers for an honest opinion.

This is a great book for budding gardeners and families who want to spend time together. It is full of great tips and advice for different types of plants that even adults will find useful.
And you don't even need a big garden or allotment to get started, just a bit of soil and space, you can even start from plant pots in the house.

I woud like to use this book with my kids at school and start a school garden. Can't see why Gardening isn't on the curriculum!!

RHS Get Growing: A Family Guide to Gardening Inside and Out is a comprehensive guide for families to establish their own sustainable home garden. The illustrations, photos, easy to follow directions, and explanations are easy to follow and perfect for not only parents to learn the ins and outs of gardening, but to share that knowledge in an easy-to-follow and fun way.

This beautiful guide offers detailed information on how to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs, and other plants in every season. It also offers the building blocks of starting your garden, including how to test your soil. My favorite section is an offering of indoor experiments designed to teach us how plants and ecosystems work, how to make our own pesto with the basil from our garden, and fun projects like making an herbal wreath. It’s excellent for kids of 4 and older to better understand how things work and develop a love for gardening and being a part of making their own food.

We have been growing our own vegetables for years, and still learned a lot from this great little guide, I cannot wait to see how it impacts this year’s yield. My favorite thing is seeing how much more my son is involved this year. Part of this is due to age, being a year older, but he is also loving learning how the little seeds become food, instead of just seeing it as an excuse to play in the dirt.

If you are looking to learn more about gardening (indoors and outdoors) with your family I highly recommend this book.

A combination of illustrations and photographs make this an eye-catching instructional book for children and their parents. It clearly shows the ins and outs of gardening and includes Did You Know... boxes, experiments as well as well presented instructions. Chas.ters include, where you can grow, how plants work and how to grow a range of plants, fruits and vegetable.
I will include this book on https://childrenslibrarylady.com/gardening-books/ when I next update it.

Thank you to NetGallery for an advanced copy of the book!

RHS Get Growing is the perfect resource for families that want to start a garden or want to fit more educational activities into their family gardening time. It includes many aspects of gardening, from starting a compost to planting seeds to propagating!

This illustrated guide to gardening will help you find the most ideal location in your garden for plants depending on the sun, location, and rain. It covers different types of soil and how to test its acidity. It shares the differences and benefits of container gardening and raised beds and even indoor plants and how to care for them. There's tons of information on veggie gardening, as well as fruits and herbs and it covers friendly and not-so-friendly insects and other garden visitors.

This book covers tons of little things that you wouldn't even think to worry about like keeping dust off of your indoor plants' leaves and how to garden on a slope or with too much shade or very little space. This book encourages families to get out and garden no matter what your circumstance, from little space to no space or maybe a too shaded yard or sloped yard.

There's tons of information in this book but also lots of educational experiments and how-to's that you can try out yourself! Learn how to start a terrarium and make a flower wreath or learn how to save seeds and grow kitchen scraps! There's plenty of hands-on material here to keep you and your children busy all year long! It even covers what to do in your garden within the four different seasons!

I love gardening and still learned a lot from this book. I think it's the perfect resource for families that want to start a garden or spend more time outdoors. It's full of fun illustrations and photos that will help children understand everything that goes into gardening and how fun and rewarding it can be!

Very cute family-friendly guide to gardening, mostly food but also animal and bug friendly stuff too!

This is a great book for families to use for nature studies or to get started gardening. It's filled with information on getting started with gardening and also with fun science projects to teach kids about how plants grow. Lots of beautiful color photos add to the appeal. I have to say that I disliked the color scheme of the illustrations (similar to the cover) and felt that it detracted from the book. That seems irrationally picky on my part, but it is what it is. Other than the strangely off-putting color scheme, I really enjoyed the book and highly recommend it. There is a ton of information in this book and there are lots of projects that kids will enjoy.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

A complete guide to gardening that will engage the whole family. Gardening can bring families together. Starting with the basics each page has a how to that is easy and exciting to grasp. The book has 9 parts and they are as follows

Where Can you Grow
How do Plants Work
The Building blocks of Gardening
Get Growing Veggies
Get Growing Fruits
Get Growing Herbs
Get Growing Flowers and Wildlife Gardens
Get Growing Houseplants
What to do with your Garden in all seasons

This will make a great gift for families to get growing and enjoy the fruit of their labor.

Highly recommend.

A Special Thank you to Quartro Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.

I requested and received an e-ARC of this book from NetGalley and Quatro Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Childrens in exchange for an honest review.

I am so glad I read this book before this year’s growing season started, this book provides a lot of great knowledge. I enjoyed reading all of the ‘Project ideas’ and ‘Did you know’ sections, I would have loved to try those projects as a child. Before I read this book, I had no idea what ‘bolting’ was or that it could be prevented by watering your plants more often, I wish I had known that when we lived in Ontario! I also enjoyed learning about ‘pips’ vs. store bought trees.

Overall, a great book for starting and maintaining a garden with easy to read and understand information.

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I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a fantastic family book to share with your children. It has fantastic pictures and drawings that both children and adults alike will enjoy as well as a fantastic amount of information on all areas of gardening.
The book is broken down into sections which is useful and I enjoyed the science experiments within it too.
A delightful and informative book for any family library.

This was such a fun, colourful, and informative guide to plants and gardening great for kids and families, but also for everyone else who wants to be able to get something to grow. I love how it was divided into sections about different types of plants and how it was so detailed about all the different steps.

The experiments and projects are great for kids so that they can learn how best to grow these plants, vegetables, and flowers themselves and what is really happening. I also really loved the end of the book where it talks about what you can be doing in your garden every season of the year.

There are great parts of this book for everyone and I think it will be a great addition for any aspiring gardener.

Let me start with the cover, not my favorite and does not do justice to the book,
This book is AMAZING! So many tips of how to grow all kids of plans, herbs, veggies, inside, outside. I see us going back again and again to Implement these tips. The layout and pictures are great, very well explained. I would certainly recommend it to everyone!

Firstly, this book is absolutely beautiful. The designer did an amazing job !
Scondly, it is very handy and has a lot of information. It is easy to use and understand too ! Very accessible !
Also the activities are very apealing and I can imagine children loving them. I recommend !

A gorgeous, easy-to-follow guide to gardening in any space.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the free digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

An excellent read for any gardener. It's full of information and ideas for growing plants as a family activity.
I liked the style of writing and how the books is organised.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

This is much more than I was expected. RHS Get Growing isn't just a book teaching children about gardening. It is a full guide for how your family can begin growing plants together. It covers the needs of tons of plants as well as how to work in different spaces and terrain options. I love how simple and accessible it kept everything.

RHS Get Growing by Holly Farrell is an amazing tool to use with your children, This book is packed with information and written in a fun and readable way. There are beautiful illustrations and wonderful photos on every page. The author gives a introduction and shares how to use the book. The chapters are as follows:
Where can you grow? (in the ground, raised beds, containers, ect.)
How do plants work? (roots shoots, water chain, ecosystems)
The building blocks of gardening. (how to identify a plant, where to get plants, showing seeds, feeding plants, watering plants, weeds and weeding, ect.)
Get Growing Veg (Peas, carrots, sweetcorn, tomatoes, ect.)
Get Growing Fruit (strawberries, raspberries, apples, ect.)
Get Growing Herbs (Basil, lavender, edible flowers ect.)
Get Growing flowers and wildlife gardens (Types of flowers, where the wild things are, art in the garden)
Get Growing Houseplants (leafy plants, air plants ect.)
What to do with your garden ( Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter)
Experiment Results and explinations
My children and I have really enjoyed this book and can't wait to use it more. This would make a great resource for school teachers to use in their classroom or for parents to use at home with their children!

A beautifully written gardening book, broken down into easy to understand terms. Get Growing is laid out perfectly into sections. The illustrations are cutesy and will appeal to all audiences. What I particularly liked were the Science projects to do with kids, as they are all feasible and will get kids of all ages interested in nature and Science. This book got me excited for gardening season, as I’ll be starting my seeds soon! Thank you to the publisher for the advance reader in exchange for my honest review.