Now in paperback, The Playground Potting Shed recounts how Dominic Murphy helped his local school establish a garden and grow a stunning array of flowers, fruit and vegetables, all during term-time. Week by week, he describes the small triumphs and inevitable setbacks he encountered while getting the gardening club off the ground and shares advice on everything from environmentally friendly pest control to avoiding troublesome varieties of vegetables.

If you've yet to join the school gardening revolution, don't delay with this much-loved, practical guide to gardening with children.

A foolproof and specific guide for parents and teachers on how to set up and manage a school gardening club. Such clubs are burgeoning in popularity and deliver many aspects of the national curriculum from science, PE and English to citizenship, etc. This is uniquely structured to coincide with term times, so that plants and produce are not left to languish in the school holidays.

Relating how he helped his local school establish a garden and grow an array of flowers, fruit and vegetables during term-time, the author describes the triumphs and the setbacks he encountered while getting the gardening club off the ground, and shares advice on environmentally friendly pest control to avoid troublesome varieties of vegetables.