Easy Garden Projects to Make, Build, and Grow: 200 Do-It-Yourself Ideas to Help You Grow Your Best Garden Ever

by Barbara Pleasant (Editor)

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 gardens and every part of the yard. And there's no need to buy costly materials since the projects use easy-to-buy supplies or scrap items.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Laura Gilfillan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of projects to make for your garden. There are a few ideas I'd like to try out.

[Laurla2 · Rating 5 out of 5]

i've found many wonderfully creative and environmentally friendly ideas already.

it has suggestions like using composite decking planks to frame out a raised bed to prevent woodrot, and use pvc pipes to anchor them in place, leaving a hole to support frames for row covers, trellis, strawberry netting, or whatnot. how to build a compost bin out of 4 wood pallets, 6 corner braces and screws, and two bungee cords. it also suggests making your own aeration tool out of a coat hanger and old mop handle. how to make many different kinds of trellises, and creative ways to irrigate your garden.

[Josie · Rating 4 out of 5]

So I didn't exactly read this cover to cover, but it's a great gardening reference book. You could find all these ideas on the internet, but sometimes it's nice to have a book to flip through and bookmark. I am excited to get my garden going this year!

[Dragon · Rating 5 out of 5]

If your starting a garden or wanting to revamp a well worn yard this is the book for you. So many ideas and helps. I have several projects dog eared waiting to be accomplished!

[Brooke · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great, simples ideas in this book! Just don't have enough time on my hands!

[Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book!

[Kathleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Has a bunch if ideas I'd like to try. Might have to buy this book.

[Davidette · Rating 5 out of 5]

lots of good easy ideas