Happy Friday and happy Spring friends! Are you excited to welcome in the season of growth, hope and renewal? I always look forward to spring and have been dreaming of all the flowers and herbs I’d plant this year, but at the end of the growing season last year, I knew I needed to find a better and easier way to keep the weeds from taking over and turning my gardening time into such a chore. Like a beacon of hope, I received a book called The Regenerative Garden, which has 80 DIY permaculture projects for the home garden and the biggie for me is a way to reduce weeding! Read on to learn more and to enter the giveaway to win a copy of the book!
Home Garden Help!
My Thanks to Quarto Group/Cool Springs Press for the complimentary books highlighted in today's post and for hosting our giveaway. No other compensation given. All opinions and love of books are my own.
About The Regenerative Garden: 80 Practical Projects for Creating a Self-Sustaining Garden Eco-System: Author: Stephanie Rose/Published: March 15, 2022, by Cool Springs Press/Quarto Group
Would you like to discover how to work with nature, instead
of against it, by employing permaculture techniques to create a garden you
love? One that’s not just more beautiful and productive, but also more resilient?
My answer to these questions is a hearty YES! Especially after
last years growing season. I was a little lax in my efforts in gardening chores
the previous fall and that came back to bite me. I battled weeds in my flower
beds, volunteers popping up in my tomatoes and an overgrown look to my cottage
garden.
I want this year to be different, so I’m going to implement
as many of the 80 DIY permaculture projects as I can this year. I’ll do my best
to share these projects here with you so you can learn along with me if you’re
new to this gardening style.
What is Permaculture?
While it sounds intimidating, the author assures us that the
principals behind it are not. According to Stephanie, the main goal of permaculture
is to turn your space into a functioning eco-system that’s less reliant on
external resources and better able to sustain itself through many seasons of
growth and change as it resists pests, diseases, and climate extremes.
Space Doesn’t Matter:
I have a large yard and my front flower beds are long and
wide, making them a challenge to fill, weed, and care for, but this book is
designed for every gardener and space. Whether you have a tiny patio garden, or
a big backyard with a built in line of trees and shrubs like me, this book can help. It’s also for gardeners like me who
prefer growing a mix of food, flowers, shrubs, trees, and herbs, this book is a
resource to help us become a better, more eco-conscious gardener.
80 Projects with Step-By-Step Instructions on How to:
- Employ intensive planting to reduce weeding and watering chores
- Use living mulches to amend soil
- Build self-watering planters and wicking beds to reduce water use
- Install a rain garden to catch runoff
- Plant a wildlife hedge to support creatures, create a windbreak, and noise buffer
- Compost projects and systems to repurpose waste on-site
- Make a butterfly migration station to support pollinators of all sorts
My Thoughts:
I’ve flipped through this book twice, adding bookmarks on
projects as I go. It’s exciting and a bit daunting to realize how hard I’ve
made gardening in recent years. I’m retraining myself to stop the ideology of
planting because it’s pretty and tasty, and to put some of these ideas and
projects in place first.
Thankfully, we have a later freeze/frost warning this year,
so that will help me win the temptation to start planting now. Instead, I’m
going to start my seeds, clean my containers and make a game plan on how best
to reduce my weeding and watering time in my flower beds.
The Takeaway:
I love the authors practical approach to teaching us the concepts in the book. Stephanie is so down to earth in her writing style, which I love. You can tell she really wants us to enjoy our gardens by teaching us how to have a healthy, organic, regenerative home garden.
She shows us examples of self-sustaining eco-systems with
everything working in tandem, so when we get these systems put in place in our
own space, it becomes a joy to work in our gardens and enjoy the fruits of our
labor. That sounds a whole lot better than having to go weed again!
Learn More about Author Stephanie Rose:
I invite you to learn more about the author of The
Regenerative Garden: 80 Practical Projects for Creating a Self-Sustaining Garden
Eco-System- Stephanie Rose by visiting her profile at Quarto Group/Cool Springs
Press here,
where you can also purchase the book, or by visiting her website here where she shares stories, recipes,
and inspiring projects.
Win It:
Thanks to today’s sponsor, Quarto Group/Cool Springs Press,
one lucky reader will receive a paperback copy of The Regenerative Garden: 80 Practical
Projects for Creating a Self-Sustaining Garden Eco-System by Stephanie Rose.
Terms:
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purchase is necessary to enter using the Rafflecopter form below. My WAHM Plan
is not responsible for prize fulfillment, sponsor is. Winners will be notified
by email used on entry form and have 48 hours to respond or
another winner will be chosen. This giveaway is not associated with nor
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Good
Luck!
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share in comments: Which how to project listed above would you work on first in
your garden?
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