Easy Garden Projects to Make, Build, and Grow: 200 Do-It-Yourself Ideas to Help You Grow Your Best Garden Ever
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Gardeners love build-it-yourself projects because they help save time, make tricky jobs simpler, give new life to cast-offs, and just make gardening more fun! These inventive and clever garden accessories work for a wide variety of garden tasks-from making compost, planting seeds, and controlling weeds to trellising climbing plants, attracting backyard wildlife, and keeping everything well watered. ¥ Need a nifty way to harden off seedlings? Try recycling an old drawer into a protected growing space, or make a shade cone from window screening.¥ Want more butterflies and birds in the yard? Build a quick fruit feeder or a simple tray feeder.¥ Tired of adding wood chips to every bed? Create a perpetual mulch garden.¥ Want to spruce up backyard living space? Decorate the patio with a handmade bamboo and cedar fountain or a dramatic drip wall.This comprehensive hands-on guide for do-it-yourself gardeners is filled with quick-and-easy projects for vegetable … More >>
Would you like to start a garden yet have no idea how to begin? Here’s the answer.
Beginning with soil preparation, seeds and plantings on through to watering, fertilizing and pest control, the editors of Yankee Magazine provide new and creative projects as well, including a scarecrow, a slug jug and a squirrel spinner. Don’t forget the compost pile!
A detailed guide for amateurs and experienced gardeners alike.
Easy Garden Projects: 200 Do-It-Yourself Ideas To Help You Grow Your Best Garden Ever, knowledgeably compiled and expertly edited by Barbara Pleasant, is a simply outstanding collection of innovative projects and intelligent ideas for bringing greater ease to gardening in a good many of its diverse aspects. Including instructional details of objects and innovations such as a Long-Handled Watering Wand, fashioning a Flashy Scarecrow, and making a Twig Tower in a pot, to making a Light Box from a drawer, weaving a wheat Good Luck Charm, and building a Rock Swale, Easy Garden Projects is an invaluable and practical “how to” reference. Easy Garden Projects is very highly recommended to all gardening specialists, hobbyists, and enthusiasts for its wealth of fun and inexpensive tips and projects.
Easy Garden Projects: 200 Do-It-Yourself Ideas To Help You Grow Your Best Garden Ever, knowledgeably compiled and expertly edited by Barbara Pleasant, is a simply outstanding collection of innovative projects and intelligent ideas for bringing greater ease to gardening in a good many of its diverse aspects. Including instructional details of objects and innovations such as a Long-Handled Watering Wand, fashioning a Flashy Scarecrow, and making a Twig Tower in a pot, to making a Light Box from a drawer, weaving a wheat Good Luck Charm, and building a Rock Swale, Easy Garden Projects is an invaluable and practical “how to” reference. Easy Garden Projects is very highly recommended to all gardening specialists, hobbyists, and enthusiasts for its wealth of fun and inexpensive tips and projects.
This book has several different ideas that require common materials that don’t require a huge amount of money. The author has utilized materials that can be easily scavanged or aquired from other economical sources. So good that not only did we buy one for ourselves but one for my in-laws.
Just a great book. It has projects in there that are simple and easy. Some of the projects are like, “Wow, why didn’t I think of that!” I can hardly wait for growing season to hit Northern Minnesota so I can try out a bunch of the ideas in this book.