Weekend Homesteader: May [Kindle Edition]

Anna Hess (Author)

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Product Description

Do you dream of homesteading but only have a bit of time each weekend to work on your projects? This ebook series introduces a simple but powerful project for each weekend of the year to start you off on the path to self-sufficiency. May projects include:

Planning your summer garden (with tips on the easiest vegetables to grow)

Making a kill mulch (and why no-till gardens are healthier)

Planting your summer garden (with information on when and how to plant)

Making a rain barrel (to collect free water for your garden)

Turning off your TV (and finding time for what really matters)

The author draws on her years of experience homesteading to make each project cheap, easy, and fun.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1179 KB
• Publisher: Wetknee Books (April 23, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004Y04GVQ
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,296 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #2 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Lifestyle & Home > Home & Garden > Gardening & Horticulture > Vegetables
  • #27 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Sustainable Living
  • #33 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Gardening & Horticulture

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great suggestions for how to start gardening, April 28, 2011

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David Hale (Herriman, UT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Weekend Homesteader: May (Kindle Edition)

As a long time reader of Anna's blog at WaldenEffect.org, I appreciate her down-to-earth way of talking about her experiences with her garden and research. While her blog goes into detail about her test successes and failures, this eBook condenses her most successful trials into a simple approach that beginner and experienced gardeners alike will benefit from. Her liberal use of diagrams and photos take the guess work out of her step-by-step instructions.

While my clay garden soil in the Western U.S. is very different from the fertile soil in Virginia where Anna lives, her suggestion for creating a kill mulch is greatly beneficial for me as well. I have had a difficult time dealing with dry, heavy clay so I'm hopeful that adding thicker layers of compost and mulch this year will get around this problem.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, easy read, April 28, 2011

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Angela L. White (Bakersville, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Weekend Homesteader: May (Kindle Edition)

I very much enjoyed the first issue of "Weekend Homesteader" and I will be purchasing the issues that follow. It's written with easy to understand directions for the projects that are included. I also like that she doesn't ramble on and all information was to the point. The projects included are quite usable and don't cost a lot.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Beginning, April 28, 2011

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James Burdine (Henderson, NV) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Weekend Homesteader: May (Kindle Edition)

I'm still reading it, and will re-read it as well. Gives folks the bare bones start in short easy to follow steps. I'm looking forward to the future issues as well. I'm currently doing container vegetable gardening in SIPS but planning "no-till" beds for the future. None of the projects will break the bank either, well except that to put in rain barrels in our arid area, I would have to put in gutters first.