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

Editors of Yankee Magazine , Barbara Pleasant
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)


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April 18, 2006
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.



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About the Author

BARBARA PLEASANT is the author of more than a dozen popular gardening books. She is a contributing editor for The Herb Companion and writes regularly for other national gardening magazines. She is a three-time winner of Garden Writers Association awards. She currently resides in Asheville, North Carolina.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Rodale Books (April 18, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0899094007
  • ISBN-13: 978-0899094007
  • Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I have the greatest job in the world, which is helping gardeners find neat ways to make the world a more beautiful and productive place. Writing feature article for Mother Earth News and other magazines helps to break up long stretches spent on books, and it's also great fun to talk with fellow gardeners, who are a constant source of new and better ideas.

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It has projects in there that are simple and easy. Bertha Mayberry  |  3 reviewers made a similar statement
A detailed guide for amateurs and experienced gardeners alike. Annabelle Robertson  |  2 reviewers made a similar statement
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars What a fabulous book! September 21, 2008
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This book is so creative. I had several ideas for my garden, but could not quite figure out how to make them work. Well, this book does it all. It has lots of clever but simple and inexpensive ways to make your garden work better for you using materials at hand. I am on a tight budget and this book helps me have a very functional garden without spending a fortune. How to make an inexpensive cold frame, how to water more efficiently, and lots of other great ideas. There was a time in America, when people did not sit around and wait for the government to take care of their needs. They used their own ingenuity and made do. This book was written by people with that kind of mentality. Some of the best spent money on a book ever! Thank you to all the people who contributed these wonderful ideas!
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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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.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Good resource
While I could not use some of the projects there are a few that I look forward to using in our yard.
Published 4 months ago by Susie Bunyard
5.0 out of 5 stars good book
I found so many many great ideas in this book, it makes planning my next years garden more fun.

I would recommend it to my friend and any one that loves to read about... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Jessie Mason
5.0 out of 5 stars Really nice book
This book has lots of easy, different ideas. It's not the same old things. There are projects in here that I fully plan on making and utilizing in my garden and yard!
Published 5 months ago by Zoe knits in CO.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource for Now and Later
This book contains many, many useful and practical ideas for gardening projects. The projects are presented in plain English and with detailed instructions.

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Published 9 months ago by SurlyJo
5.0 out of 5 stars FAST shipping! Book is as described..
Haven't had a chance to read the book yet, but it looks great and I can't wait to get started on some of the projects!
Published 16 months ago by Frances E. Underhill
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Tips for Gardeners
This book has several different ideas that require common materials that don't require a huge amount of money. Read more
Published on July 12, 2009 by OZ Traveler
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Garden Projects
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! Read more
Published on March 15, 2009 by Bertha Mayberry
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to follow
This is the best gardening book I've ever read. It's written in very simple language so that it's easy to understand. Read more
Published on October 27, 2007 by Debbie in NM
5.0 out of 5 stars Build your Own Garden Items
Good basic garden book to doing your own garden projects. Now if we both could have the time to do them all!
Published on October 3, 2007 by Cynthia D. Alexander
5.0 out of 5 stars A simply outstanding collection of innovative projects and intelligent...
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... Read more
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