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Your Garden For Free. Second Edition.
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- Andrew M Molloy
- Pubblicato:
- Nov 18, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781386589129
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- Libro
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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 pieces 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 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 new trend.
Informazioni sul libro
Your Garden For Free. Second Edition.
Descrizione
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 pieces 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 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 new trend.
- Editore:
- Andrew M Molloy
- Pubblicato:
- Nov 18, 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781386589129
- Formato:
- Libro
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Your Garden For Free. Second Edition. - Andrew M Molloy
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From the Author.
For the last two years, I have been meaning to publish a second edition of, Your Garden for Free. As a keen gardener and writer, I did feel that the first edition did lack visuals, but more importantly, I wanted to not be one of those writers who did not practice what they preached. All my adult life I have done projects in the garden. Through life experience you do learn how to do more, provided you want to. Sometimes costs are avoidable, such as when a fence needs replacing, but many projects in our gardens need not. I have built ponds for literally no money, and features that came about through someone wanting to get rid of excess materials, and so on. I am frugal in nature and when something is going free, I rarely say no. That is not because I do not want to pay for new, I just believe that reusing perfectly good materials instead of throwing them away is far better than sending them to landfill. So, in the Summer of 2019, I set myself the challenge of doing a project in the garden that required me to put into practice what I have written about, and that is to get your garden for free, well almost free. I chose the task of building a shed on a budget of less than one hundred pounds, and not just any old shed that was ramshackle and looked like it had been built by nailing old bits of wood together. I wanted it to be a solid construction, to look pleasing on the eyes, and not only that, I wanted it to be a place I could spend time and look out upon my garden. It would double also as a workshop, and be glazed. A tall ask, yes, impossible, no. It really can be done and I was under budget. I have also added in this edition a few other projects I did for free in 2019.
Introduction.
There is a way you can design and fill your garden with plants without breaking the bank. It does take effort and some resourcefulness on your part, but if you are not afraid of a little hard work and want to save money in your garden, then join the many gardeners who are upcycling, recycling and basically saving money that you can easily do yourself.
Buying plants can also be expensive and if you think it is impossible to save money on buying them in these times of commercialism, then think again. It is possible to fill your garden with herbs, fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers, with little to no money. You can also be one of the many new breed of gardeners, that fill their outdoor spaces for pennies, and not only reap the rewards, but contribute to their well-being, but also do their bit for the environment.
All of us by now should be aware of how much our wildlife is being decimated and polluted. Your garden is, and can become a haven for many endangered species, and again, it only takes a little effort to make a huge difference. Our planet is changing, and each one of us should at least try to make a few changes to the way we consume, recycle and dispose of our waste materials to ensure that the future of our planet is not left with a mountain of rubbish that our child will have to deal with! Many gardening items are discarded needlessly, but that is where you come in. Upcycling and bringing these items back to life can be very rewarding and more importantly, it saves them going to landfill sites. As you may already know, our oceans are being polluted with plastic and chemicals. This again is where you can do your bit to help. Plastic pots are dumped by the million each year, why? Simply reuse them or ask another keen gardener if they want them. Just as plastic has become a problem, chemical usage in our environment has been around a long time and it's now being realised its real effects on our wildlife. It may seem only a token gesture in not using chemicals needlessly in your own garden, but your wildlife will benefit immensely from it. By creating a bio-diverse garden, it will firstly save you money on not having to buy chemical treatments, but secondly, and more importantly it will benefit the environment. I totally agree that there are times when only a chemical treatment will do a certain job, but these are very rare and in the long term, doing things the old-fashioned way with a little hard work are still the cheapest and, in most cases, the best way. Weeding can be a choir, but hey. You won’t get a garden for free out of an expensive bottle of weed killer, and certainly not sitting on your backside. The equation is simple, effort equals reward!
Up-cycling.
This concept is neither new nor a sudden trend. It is basically a word change. I know, and you know it means something second-hand, and let’s be frank here. No one likes the word second-hand. It just does not gel well with people these days and makes an item seem inferior. But if you say it was upcycled. Wow. It somehow makes it worth having! I get it, so call it whatever you like as long it does not go to landfill, I am all for it. There are even programs on television giving people ideas on how to transform otherwise redundant items into something useful. Fantastic is all I can say to that. In general, we should take responsibility for anything we have bought and recycle it responsibly and not simple discard it for someone to deal with.
One of the many items we need in the garden is a table and chairs. What better way to spend a nice day than in your garden relaxing on furniture you have rescued from going to landfill. You can of course spend thousands on nice garden furniture, but if money is tight. You really can have these for little, to no money. Going to your local reuse shop that are normally at your local recycling centre can be a goldmine of treasures. The white plastic types are okay and even the grubbiest looking table and chairs will scrub up well with UPVC cleaning products. The real treasures are those hardwood slatted types. They are expensive to buy new and it seems crazy why they are thrown away. With a light sanding with wire wool to clean off the algae, or table-top stains. Then apply a proprietary wood oil product to give them a great finish, they are as good as new. Even if you must do a few minor repairs, it can save you a fortune.
Large plastic pots can also be found in re-use centres, and again are throw away by the million each year. With a clean-up, they too can be good, cheap alternatives to buying new, but where you really will save money is finding the decorative ceramic type pots. If like me you are not keen on plastic pots for outdoor use, then this is a great way to find them. They have better insulation properties than plastic pots, from the heat and the cold and just look better in my opinion. Nothing says cheap better than a plastic outdoor pot! But, like anything you can find a use for, it is always better to use what you have rather than throwing it away.
Having a good rummage around these places will save you money, and let’s not forget other garden accessories that add up through the year. Hanging baskets, brackets, rakes, shovels, trowels and basically anything to do with gardening you may find at your local re-use centre so do look and save big. Up-cycling is not just restricted to large garden furniture, because anything that is reused is always going to be better than not. In most cases, all that is required is a clean, or as for gardening tools and equipment, a general service and sharpen up.
Another great tip is skips. I know what you are probably thinking. No way. I am not saying sneak up and have a rummage. Don’t be embarrassed, just ask the owner. Building sites are filled with useful materials that can be reused and in nearly all cases they will be more than happy for you to empty a skip they are paying for and will have more room to fill it. A few years ago, my partner told that a friend of hers had just had another new kitchen because she did not like the new one, she had bought! A brand-new solid oak kitchen went to landfill. I was fuming. If I had known sooner, I would
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