Books with title Mildred Murphy How Does Your Garden Grow

While Toot is away, Puddle decides to plant a vegetable garden. He enlists Opal’s help and together they plant tomatoes, lettuce, and cucumbers—all the right ingredients for a salad. They gather supplies in a big wheelbarrow, they measure out their garden and dig out rows. They rake the soil, add fertilizer, and plant seeds all afternoon. Then impatient Opal learns all the important lessons of growing a garden: she learns that plants need to be watered; that gardens need to be weeded; that sometimes troublesome squirrels need to be given nuts to keep them away from the seeds. And the most important lesson of all—she learns that gardens don’t grow overnight. All good things need to be cared for, protected, and given time to grow.

How Does Your Garden Grow? - This story is about how a gardener will grow his vegetable garden from Spring to Fall. Gives some interesting facts about selecting a plot of ground, preparing it, seeding all the way through harvesting vegetables. This story is very educational. This story, told in poetry, with fabulous illustrations, is enjoyable for Children of all ages.

While Toot is away, Puddle decides to plant a vegetable garden. He enlists Opal’s help and together they plant tomatoes, lettuce, and cucumbers—all the right ingredients for a salad. They gather supplies in a big wheelbarrow, they measure out their garden and dig out rows. They rake the soil, add fertilizer, and plant seeds all afternoon. Then impatient Opal learns all the important lessons of growing a garden: she learns that plants need to be watered; that gardens need to be weeded; that sometimes troublesome squirrels need to be given nuts to keep them away from the seeds. And the most important lesson of all—she learns that gardens don’t grow overnight. All good things need to be cared for, protected, and given time to grow.

Growing a garden is much like building a life. Many of the same tips work for both. Just being outside has often been a relief from worry, a prelude to a new perspective, or a rest from the increasingly conceptual and technological activities of everyday life. Recently, as I worked outside, I began to realize that so much of the thought process that goes into gardening and landscaping, perfectly applies to building a life. And so, as one generation has done since the beginning of communal life, I wanted to pass on to younger generations some of the ideas I have come to believe. What better way than a book?

How Does Your Garden Grow? - This story is about how a gardener will grow his vegetable garden from Spring to Fall. Gives some interesting facts about selecting a plot of ground, preparing it, seeding all the way through harvesting vegetables. This story is very educational. This story, told in poetry, with fabulous illustrations, is enjoyable for Children of all ages.