Transforming your garden can be expensive and if money is limited, upcycling everyday garden items into something new you can use, will not only save you money, but will also prevent another perfectly serviceable piece of garden furniture or equipment being sent to landfill. Upcycling unwanted items is a fun way you can save money, but let's not stop there. Money can be saved transforming your garden into something you can do for little to no money. Along with plants and attracting wildlife into your garden will only further advance your garden into a beautiful place that you can enjoy, for literally no money in many cases. This handy book will give you some ideas of what is possible, whether you are creating a garden from scratch, or just wanting to add something special to enhance your garden. Anything is possible once you delve into this exciting way to transform your garden. This edition is a text only edition. The second edition includes images of the projects I have done in my own garden over the years. Most projects and designs only cost my time, others a few quid are required, but never more than you would think. This first edition also includes a month-by month guide to give you some ideas of what is possible throughout the gardeners’ years.

There are many issues and obstacles we face today. We know we all need to start somewhere and that somewhere could be right outside your front or back door. Our need to change is now, not tomorrow. There is not a single environment on the entire Earth that is not now contaminated by human activity. This will continue until our biosphere can take no more. Then, we all lose. We lose a diamond that may never exist again in any other solar system amongst billions. We are still abusing fossil fuels and the simple truth is, if we continue to pump greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, if we deforest anymore land, continue to build and extract anymore minerals from the Earth, we will cook this planet to the point no life can exist. Our very survival depends on our ability to change the way we live and that day is here, right now. So much wildlife is being lost across the globe and nearly all that loss can be attributed to human activity. Your local wildlife should be important to you and you should want to help because that unseen life those plants and creatures have all contributed to our lives in ways we are yet to fully appreciate. We can do so much more to help. We can grow many seasonal foods. We can do more than you think if the will is strong to do so. My passion for wildlife is stronger now than at any time in my life. The reason for that is because I know that the natural world needs me, and all of you, more than at any time in all of its evolutionary path. We are breaking down chains of life that can recover if we act now. We can reverse climate change but we all do need to act and not for no other reason that because you, like me, you care about our planet. If this book gives you anything, I hope it gives you a new perspective on how your garden is just as important as saving our oceans, our forests and our kaleidoscope of magical plants and creatures we are custodians of. If enough of us care, I know the future can be brighter for all, and not just the few! I have included some fun facts in this book and a month-by-month gardening guide I have compiled over three decades of gardening. There are fun ways to reuse materials to save them from landfill. Projects that are easily achieved to save money or to simply grow more of your own food to save a few bucks/pounds. In truth, your garden can be anything you want it to be. All the projects in this book are from my own endeavours in my garden to create a place for me, the food I like to grow for and the local wildlife.

This extensively revised and expanded edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban gardeners. The text's message is that working with nature, not against it, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.

The author of Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency shares the secrets to maintaining an abundant garden in the Rocky Mountain West. Gardening in Utah is unlike gardening anywhere else. Lack of summer rain, daytime heat, and insect infestation are just a few of the challenges we often face in the high desert climate. But Caleb Warnock offers simple solutions to these and many other issues in this accessible guide written specifically for gardening in the Beehive State. Using his decades of self-sufficiency experience, Caleb makes Utah gardening easy enough for anyone to have a successful harvest. In this volume he covers: How to solve your garden problems once and for all How to have a low-water garden in one of the driest climates in the US How to easily keep your garden 95% weed-free!

Anyone who gardens knows how snails, aphids, scale insects, and caterpillars can damage vegetables, flowers, shrubs, and trees. But not many of us know that ground beetles eat caterpillars, not plants; that dragonflies feed on mosquitoes; that parasitic wasps prey on tomato hornworms. In this delightful guide to the world of beneficial insects, Starcher, an artist and avid gardener, shows us how to identify the "good guys" and encourage them to reside in our gardens. "Altogether delightful."--Newark Star-Ledger; "A fact-filled, charmingly illustrated guide."--American Bookseller. A GARDEN BOOK CLUB selection.