Illuminates the efforts of students and staff at Acequia Madre Elementary School in Santa Fe, New Mexico to plant, grow, and harvest their own garden. Offers readers tips on how to start their own garden and features full-color photographs.

"Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves ... and down in the dirt."-- Provided by publisher.

Provides information and advice on choosing flowers, preparing a place for them to grow, and then planting and caring for them.

Provides instructions for growing plants in containers, including how to create a flower-filled pot for your balcony and a window box with fruits and vegetables.

Describes how to make an organic garden.

Shows gardeners how to attract butterflies to their gardens and provides other facts about butterflies.

Discusses how to care for plants indoors, including such aspects as light, temperature, humidity, pests, diseases, equipment, and how to choose and grow your own plants.

Illustrations and rhyming text ask several questions about flowers, vegetables, and trees.