Have you seen Mr Bloom's Nursery on CBeebies? It's a bit young for your daughter, but very enjoyable and comes with actual gardening lessons. I also watched the Beechgrove garden and Gardener's World on tv when I was your daughter's age. I found the tv programmes much more accessible than books at that age and soaked up a load of information from them. Beechgrove is particularly good for accessible, step-by-step gardening lessons. I ended up doing a botany degree, so it must have worked. Good luck with your gardening!
On the subject of kids gardening, my son who is now 18 was always keen on growing things in the garden when he was little. When he started growing up and other things became more interesting he stopped being interested in the garden, but now we have a house with a large garden and when he's around he shows a keen interest in the garden and what we are growing and harvesting (doesn't doing any digging though!). So what I'm saying is even if kids 'go off the boil' in the teenage years I think if an interest in the garden and growing is nurtured at a young age it stays with you for the rest of you life, and that can't be a bad thing can it?
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Have you seen Mr Bloom's Nursery on CBeebies? It's a bit young for your daughter, but very enjoyable and comes with actual gardening lessons. I also watched the Beechgrove garden and Gardener's World on tv when I was your daughter's age. I found the tv programmes much more accessible than books at that age and soaked up a load of information from them. Beechgrove is particularly good for accessible, step-by-step gardening lessons. I ended up doing a botany degree, so it must have worked. Good luck with your gardening!
Jen
On the subject of kids gardening, my son who is now 18 was always keen on growing things in the garden when he was little. When he started growing up and other things became more interesting he stopped being interested in the garden, but now we have a house with a large garden and when he's around he shows a keen interest in the garden and what we are growing and harvesting (doesn't doing any digging though!). So what I'm saying is even if kids 'go off the boil' in the teenage years I think if an interest in the garden and growing is nurtured at a young age it stays with you for the rest of you life, and that can't be a bad thing can it?