Some people can look at a plain stretch of yard and get inspired. Others just get overwhelmed.

It’s those latter folks that Ellen Zachos had in mind when she wrote her latest book, Down & Dirty!

Zachos, a garden designer and author, offers 43 achievable gardening projects in the book, all designed to allow novice gardeners to get their feet wet in gardening while they get their hands dirty. Projects include creating “grow-bags” (growing vegetables or flowers directly in bags of potting soil), installing a simple drip irrigation system and creating a water garden in a container. Zachos uses the projects as a way of teaching gardening basics, so readers learn through doing.

Down & Dirty! is published by Storey Publishing and sells for $19.95 in paperback and $30 in hardcover.

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