
Written by Alexis Frederick-Frost
Part of the Maker Comics series
Three unlucky students learn the dirty secrets of growing food from an odd teacher.
Will, Violet and Basil are stuck with Mr. Butternut, the strangest and least popular teacher at the Garden Gnome Academy. While their classmates study exotic plants and butterflies, they learn about soil and compost, and discover their teacher really does know how to grow delicious vegetables. Comic-style step-by-step instructions show readers how to make a compost bin, seed pots, potting mix, a grow-light shelf, a cold frame and a container garden.
Maker Comics is the ultimate DIY guide. Inside Grow a Garden, you’ll find illustrated instructions for six gardening projects! Will, Violet, and Basil must be the unluckiest students at the Garden Gnome Academy. They’ve been stuck with Mr. Butternut, the school’s most unpopular (and unusual) teacher. Will and his friends have to learn about soil and compost while their classmates get to study exotic plants and butterflies. Although things get a little messy (and stinky) in his class, Mr. Butternut does know a thing or two about growing delicious veggies. Follow the easy step-by-step instructions in this book and you can make: A compost binSeed potsPotting mixA growlight shelfA cold frameA container garden
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