Roots Shoots Buckets and Boots

This is the book that I finished reading this week. It was a cute little book on inspiring kids and adults to do gardening. I love gardens and my idea of a house was not complete without a garden. I always dreamt of this little cottage with a big garden as my ideal home. And my husband always dreamt of a big house I suppose. So we ended up buying a big house with a bit lot with nicely landscaped yard.

And when I bought my house I assumed that I would fill my garden with all the things that a garden can and should have. But I have to admit that I failed miserably at that. I didn’t know where to start in my huge lot. I planted some tomatoes and egg plants last spring but before I got the harvest it became too cold and all I got was a huge numbers of small green tomatoes. I enjoyed what ever little I got but I think that was shame for the mere size of my garden(say lot). So this year I plan to make a better effort and in those I efforts came across this beautiful book “Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots”. It has beautiful ideas on how to plant with little kids and explore the nature with your little ones. I am sure I am going to refer to this book in the future as I am really a kid starting on my gardening journey.

It has nice pictures of the ideas of pizza patches and moon light blooms and little mazes. I never new we could do so much in our gardens. It has a few instructions on how to have a compost bin and prepare the soil before panting. It has nice detailed instructions on how to plant the various plants without sounding too boring or rigorous. The list of the 20 plants to have in a garden is a must in every Californian garden I suppose. What I like more about this book is that the author is from California and so the plants she mentioned in her book are mostly suitable for our weather. I am glad I stumbled on this book and I hope I implement at least one tenth of what I read.

My first to do after reading this is to get a compost bin and list of all the 20 must have plants in my garden. Its February now and I am sure I am going to have more fun in my garden. This books did inspire me.