Gardening Your Front Yard: Projects and Ideas for Big and Small Spaces - Includes Vegetable Gardening, Pollinator Plants, Rain Gardens, and More!

Learn how to treat your front yard like a backyard without sacrificing beauty, from choosing the right plants to building walkways and setting up a front yard patio. In Gardening Your Front Yard , author Tara Nolan ( Raised Bed Revolution ) of SavvyGardening.com uses her unique combination of DIY/building savvy and gardening expertise to weave you past the main pitfalls you may encounter when trying to fit a garden or gardens between your home and the street. This beautifully illustrated and comprehensive resource shows how to accomplish several hardscaping projects , such as laying a mowing border and building a walkway; provides inspiration to create a rain garden ; and gives DIY instructions for making your own raised beds , a bench, a privacy screen, and more— all custom-designed for the rigors of front-yard gardening . Gardening Your Front Yard is a gardening book in every sense of the word, however. Choosing the right plants is even more important when you are dealing with a small, highly visible area sometimes with less than ideal growing conditions. You will find advice on: Planting around foundation walls Dealing with road salt Planting boulevards/hell strips Shade gardens Privacy screening Security dos and don’ts How to intermingle edibles and landscape plants And much more With the sage advice and step-by-step projects of this comprehensive guide, convert your front yard from a bland grasscape to a vital living space .