Landscaping 101: An Easy DIY Guide to Designing & Decorating Your Garden on a Budget: Gardening & Homesteading

By Sonia Goodwin

You don’t have to have a green thumb or an unlimited bankroll to have a beautiful yard. Whether you are growing things that are purely ornamental or adding in some edibles for variety, your yard can become an oasis and if planned correctly will quickly become like another room in your home. You will find yourself wanting to spend more and more time there, communing with nature and finding new and interesting ways to improve the look and feel of your little corner of Nature.

This book will not only cover the basics of what you need to get started but will help you take your landscaping to a whole new level. You will quickly become the envy of your friends and neighbors without having to hire an expensive professional to do it.

Inside this book you will find:

• How to choose the right plants for your area and soil.
• How to get help if you run into trouble.
• How to use your own home and more to set a framework.
• Low cost statues, ornaments and more including projects that will let you take trash and turn it into yard art.
• What to do at the end of the growing season to ensure a success the following spring.

Straightforward and simple, this book is the tool to get you started on the beautiful yard you have always dreamed of. Don’t delay, the growing season is waiting for you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guava Books
• Release date: Jan 30, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386757627

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Introduction

My mother, bless her heart, was the sweetest person but could not grow a plant to save her life. She won a begonia in a little glass container. She called it Priscilla and she talked to it every day. During a storm, mom pulled the window down too quickly and sheared that poor plant in half. Priscilla didn’t stand a chance.

On the other hand, my dad and his mom could grow nearly anything. If you plopped the two of them in the desert with some seeds and nothing but sand they would make those seeds grow, I kid you not. Dad put in a huge garden in the back part of the yard. Nothing much to look at but we ate well every summer.

Grandma liked the pretty plants, the unusual plants, the plants that no one else could grow. She had plants in every room in her home. (The place was a lion and a few monkeys short of being a jungle.)More plants were grown all around her modest yard and on her porches. Every year it was my job to move her outdoor, potted plants to the basement. I would ask her questions about the plants as I worked and tried to decide whether I loved the plants enough to hope they did well or hated the word enough to hope they froze over the winter.

Eventually, I discovered that I have a little bit of the skills of both of them. I love to grow things that have value beyond aesthetics. Beautiful herbs that flavor dishes and serve as medicine are a favorite, but I also like to grow some fruits and veggies as well. (Super handy now that I am a vegetarian!) I also like to grow pretty things- roses, irises, tulips, and snapdragons have always been staples in the yards I have tended over the years.

I have experimented with other plants as I have