Author: Dorian Oldfather Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 38
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It should come as no surprise that you will not be the only one enjoying your fresh harvest if you do not have a vegetable garden fence protecting your hard work. Deer, rabbits, raccoons, opossum, and many other wild creatures are grazers by nature, and will not distinguish your garden as anything other than a wonderful buffet set before them. Unless it is your intent to feed the natural neighborhood, building an appropriate and effective barrier will put more food on your table at harvest time. Your garden needs shelter from harmful winds. When you grow plants that cannot withstand heavy winds, you need to consider building a fence around your garden to help protect your plants from wind gusts that may destroy them. This is especially true when you have a larger garden and have invested heavily in your crops. Failure to protect them from heavy winds may result in huge losses. When you have beautiful and healthy plants in your garden you are likely to invite destructive animals who wants to feed on the crops and end up destroying them. In addition, people may want to steal from your garden. The best way to secure your plants and protect them from harmful animals and thieves is to build a garden fence around them. This book will show you step by step building fence for your garden. Read this book now.
Author: John Baker Publisher: ISBN: 9781542901703 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Most people have gardens in the homes where they grow vegetables and other healthy herbs for their nutritional needs or flowers to enhance the beauty of their homes. If you have a garden in your home or you live on a large farm then you need to fence around your garden so that you can protect your plants from people who can steal them or animals that may destroy them. Garden fences play important role in your compound. Here are a few reasons why you need to have a garden around your garden: Your garden needs shelter from harmful winds. When you grow plants that cannot withstand heavy winds, you need to consider building a fence around your garden to help protect your plants from wind gusts that may destroy them. This is especially true when you have a larger garden and have invested heavily in your crops. Failure to protect them from heavy winds may result in huge losses. When you have beautiful and healthy plants in your garden you are likely to invite destructive animals who wants to feed on the crops and end up destroying them. In addition, people may want to steal from your garden. The best way to secure your plants and protect them from harmful animals and thieves is to build a garden fence around them.
Author: Macy Nicanor Publisher: ISBN: 9781463717834 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
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Do you really need a fence? You may need to build a fence to meet local government (city, town, state) housing rules and regulations. For instance, if you have a pool or pets, most often your local housing laws will require you to fence in the animals and the area around the pool. Perhaps also you may just want to enclose your home or land area for privacy or aesthetic reasons. For whatever reason you need a fence, building one can be affordable if you make it a do it yourself job. You can save so much money on labor cost alone. Also, if you build your fence DIY, you can put it up fast as you won't have to wait for contract workers to schedule you within their timeframe. Design and installation will be the primary areas to learn when building your own home fence. Planning will need to include research on fence types and materials so that your fence design will look aesthetically beautiful as an accent to your entire landscape. In installing your fences, strong support is the key for building fences that will last for years to come. This book will provide you with a step by step framework for creating a home fence. The guide will begin with initial planning and guide you through to the end product and maintenance of your new fence. You will learn specific tips and instructions on: * What type of fence to install * Tools needed to get started * Installing the fence (the specs) Whether you are a beginner or expert do it yourself fence builder you can learn something new about fence building in this book to help you build your new home fence project quickly, easily and cheaply!
Author: Jill Winger Publisher: Flatiron Books ISBN: 1250305942 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.
Author: Karen Chapman Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 1604698497 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
“Fear deer no more! The best source I’ve seen on the topic!” —Tracy DiSabato-Aust, award-winning garden designer and best-selling author Deer are one of the most common problems a gardener can face. These cute but pesky animals can quickly devour hundreds of dollars’ worth of plants. And common solutions include the use of unattractive fencing and chemicals. In Deer-Resistant Design, Karen Chapman offers another option—intentional design choices that result in beautiful gardens that coexist with wildlife. Deer-Resistant Design showcases real home gardens across North America—from a country garden in New Jersey to a hilltop hacienda in Texas—that have successfully managed the presence of deer. Each homeowner also shares their top ten deer-resistant plants, all welcome additions to a deer-challenged gardeners shopping list. A chapter on deer-resistant container gardens provides suggestions for making colorful, captivating, and imaginative containers. Lushly illustrated and filled with practical advice and inspiring design ideas, Deer-Resistant Design is packed with everything you need to confidently tackle this challenging problem.
Author: Margaret Roach Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 1604698772 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 321
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“A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.
Author: Sherry Petersik Publisher: Artisan ISBN: 1579656765 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 337
Book Description
This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
Author: Charles Dowding Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0744077753 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 631
Book Description
Work in partnership with nature to nurture your soil for healthy plants and bumper crops - without back-breaking effort! Have you ever wondered how to transform a weedy plot into a thriving vegetable garden? Well now you can! By following the simple steps set out in No Dig, in just a few short hours you can revolutionize your vegetable patch with plants already in the ground from day one! Charles Dowding is on a mission to teach that there is no need to dig over the soil, but by minimizing intervention you are actively boosting soil productivity. In fact, The less you dig, the more you preserve soil structure and nurture the fungal mycelium vital to the health of all plants. This is the essence of the No Dig system that Charles Dowding has perfected over a lifetime growing vegetables. So put your gardening gloves on and get ready to discover: - Guides and calendars of when to sow, grow, and harvest. - Inspiring information and first-hand guidance from the author - “Delve deeper” features look in-depth at the No Dig system and the facts and research that back it up. - The essential role of compost and how to make your own at home. - The importance of soil management, soil ecology, and soil health. Now one of the hottest topics in environmental science, this "wood-wide web" has informed Charles's practice for decades, and he's proven it isn't just trees that benefit - every gardener can harness the power of the wood-wide web. Featuring newly- commissioned step-by-step photography of all stages of growing vegetables and herbs, and all elements of No Dig growing, shot at Charles’s beautiful market garden in Somerset, you too will be able to grow more veg with less time and effort, and in harmony with nature - so join the No Dig revolution today! A must-have volume for followers of Charles Dowding who fervently believe in his approach to low input, high yield gardening, as well as gardeners who want to garden more lightly on the earth, with environmentally friendly techniques like organic and No Dig.
Author: Jill McSheehy Publisher: Callisto Media, Inc. ISBN: 1646115384 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 291
Book Description
Grow a flourishing vegetable garden with the ultimate guide for beginners Gardeners never forget the first time they enjoyed a ripe, juicy tomato plucked straight from the vine or savored a crisp, fresh salad made with ingredients from their backyard. Start growing your first crop today with Vegetable Gardening for Beginners. Host of The Beginner's Garden podcast Jill McSheehy offers simple guidance to first-time gardeners who will be amazed at how easy it can be to create a thriving garden. Build the ideal foundation with clear instructions for constructing raised beds, preparing containers, and mixing healthy soil. Pick the perfect plants with in-depth profiles that detail how to grow beloved culinary plants, from peppery arugula to cool melons and fragrant rosemary. Nurture a budding garden with this reference for pairing up companion plants, watering and mulching, handling pests, and maintaining plants year-round. Start your own vegetable garden with the easy-to-follow guidance from Vegetable Gardening for Beginners.
Author: Jeff Beneke Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1612124437 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 129
Book Description
Whether you want to protect your garden, provide a safe enclosure for pets, or add privacy, this Storey BASICS® guide covers you everything you need to know to build the perfect fence. Offering clear step-by-step instructions, Jeff Beneke shows you how to construct a variety of fences from wood, vinyl, and chain link. With designs that are easily adaptable to all types of yards, you’ll soon be putting up a functional and beautiful fence that works with your landscape.
Author: Dorian Oldfather
Author: John Baker
Author: Macy Nicanor
Author: Jill Winger
Author: Karen Chapman
Author: Margaret Roach
Author: Sherry Petersik
Author: Charles Dowding
Author: Jill McSheehy
Author: Jeff Beneke