- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Creative Publishing International, US (1 Mar 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1589235991
- ISBN-13: 978-1589235991
- Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 20.8 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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I bought this book as we needed ideas and plans for a traditional greenhouse on a budget. I thought, rather naïvely in hindsight, it would contain all the sizes and instructions. Instead, it mentions a website address where software can be downloaded to plan and design your own. After a couple of failed attempts and emails to sort it out, I did manage to download everything successfully, but as yet haven't used it. I found out afterwards that the greenhouse we like can be found on the internet anyway with a link to the same website!
This book does actually contain a few good ideas with instructions for the simpler projects, such as a frame for climbing plants, which we will have a go at, but some of the projects are a bit too modern for our taste.
This book does actually contain a few good ideas with instructions for the simpler projects, such as a frame for climbing plants, which we will have a go at, but some of the projects are a bit too modern for our taste.
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But that's about all. If you're a keen garden DIYer, and, of course, the owner of the widest possible range of power tools, it's a decent sort of book to have around for inspiration and ideas; and it's certainly very comprehensive. But if you're not already a fairly experienced woodworker you might have difficulty with some of the projects, whereas others are just too simplistic to warrant inclusion for anyone who is already a bit handy -- as you might expect to be if you had all the power tools mentioned here.
There are some innovative ideas -- a solar dryer for making your own sun-dried tomatoes, for example -- but others are impractical, often being on too small a scale to be really useful, more eye candy than garden worthy, or just plain daft, like the small raised bed with wooden sides stuck in the middle of the lawn. And the Versailles planter on casters would skate off into the distance up here on a breezy day.
There are some innovative ideas -- a solar dryer for making your own sun-dried tomatoes, for example -- but others are impractical, often being on too small a scale to be really useful, more eye candy than garden worthy, or just plain daft, like the small raised bed with wooden sides stuck in the middle of the lawn. And the Versailles planter on casters would skate off into the distance up here on a breezy day.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great ideas, bad instructions!
26 Mar 2012
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This is a terrific source of good designs. The photographs are downright inspriring. It leaves a lot to be desired in terms of how the book tells you to construct the projects. If you don't know advanced woodworking techniques, this probably isn't the book for you. The bill of materials is inadequate, some of the items listed are incorrectly sized, some are non standard sizes causing additional expense. (The design could easily be sized for standard items.) Pick a project and have a carpenter on speed dial!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
practical and do-able
21 Jan 2012
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We read the library copy and then had to have our own. Projects are inspiring and very do-able - we can't wait till spring so we can get building.
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