Garden DIY
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Tools: A Few Things You’ll Need
Introduction
Hello, gardeners! We hope that you enjoy this journey with us through twenty-five do-ityourself projects for your garden. Our goal in this book is two-fold: to introduce you to fun-to-build projects that will help you be productive in the garden as well as serve as inspiration for projects of your own.
As a gardener, you’re likely already something of a DIYer, someone who is self-reliant and knows how to get the job done. Gardening tends to involve improvisation, and often requires skills that go beyond the simply green-thumb chores, so we would venture to guess that you’re already well suited to building and producing these garden projects. Sure, you might need to learn a new skill here or there, but isn’t that part of the DIY appeal?
We’ve tried to include a variety of projects here so that there is a little something for everybody. Some of the projects—the sun gate, the potting bench, or the cold frames—require a bit of carpentry skill and are, therefore, a little more challenging, but they can easily be accomplished with some practice (or help!) and a good weekend of time. Other projects in the book require a little more artistic flair, like the mason bee house or the rock garden markers, so we hope that there’s a little something for everyone. Most of the projects are aimed at providing some kind of useful or decorative feature for the garden, so you’ll find things like wooden trellises for your pole beans, peas, and other climbing vegetables, and a rain water barrel to help you recycle valuable rainfall from the roof of your home, garage, or garden shed. You’ll also find instructions for things like raised beds (actually, two different kinds