Dirt-Cheap Gardening: Hundreds of Ways to Save Money in Your Garden - Softcover

Producing a beautuful yard and a bountiful garden doesn't have to cost a fortune. Gardners really can "have it all," says Master Gardener Rhonda Massingham Hart, and they really can get something for nothing. In Dirt-Cheap Gardening, Hart shares years of practical experience and imaginative, time-tested ideas for saving money and cutting costs.

Dirt-Cheap Gardening offers a wealth of tips, tricks, and hints on how to:

-- Reuse and recycle to save in the yard and garden

-- Identify and acquire useful tools

-- Avoid tools that are useless "toys"

-- Institute low-cost ways of assuring healthy plants

-- Buy, save, and start seeds

-- Obtain plants for free -- or at least as best buys

-- Find money-saving plant varieties

-- Create inexpensive garden accents and accessories

-- Evaluate which plants make a better investment than others

Rhonda Massingham Hart is a master gardener and the author of Vertical Vegetables & Fruit, The Dirt-Cheap Green Thumb, Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden, and Squirrel Proofing Your Home & Garden. She has written articles for a variety of magazines, including Flower & Garden, Woman’s Day, and Fine Gardening. She writes extensively on organic gardening techniques and lives in Washington State.