Garden Planning Software - Gardening Downloads

Get Your Garden "Know-How" here! Katherine Whiteside shares her garden "How To" in downloadable, easy to follow projects that YOU CAN DO! Each project includes step-by-step instructions, diagrams, the tools you will need and a complete shopping list. Gardening is fun! And now, with Katherine's easy to follow downloads, it can be easy too! Katherine's latest book "The Way We Garden Now" also available in a beautifully illustrated hardcover book.

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#01-Make A New Bed

This medium-sized project gleefully explains a smart way to make a new bed, with no digging or rototilling

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#02-Create A Compost Pile

This small project shows you how to build and maintain a compost pile and explains what to do with the results. A compost pile will give you a place to recycle kitchen scraps and garden debris into well-balanced, slow-release, 100-percent-safe organic fertilizer. Compost will improve your soil, provide almost all the potting soil you'll require, and kick-start your organic gardening skill level. This Project Download is complete with a shopping list, tools list and installation instructions.

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#03-Don't Be A Tool Fool

Experienced gardeners know that tools can be seductive. They wink at you from store displays. They promise you a better life. They seem like a good idea at the same. But in the end, an unused tool speaks of an impulsive, expensive mistake. This small project gives you a basic inventory if tool that are likely to become your faithful helpers. It also shows you how to organize these trusted friends so they are always there when you need them. Everything you need to be "Tool Cool"!

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#04-Record Your Progress

This small project helps you to establish a way to keep garden records. Once you have more than five plants, you need a place to write down their names. You'll also want to remember the name of that blue clematis you saw at the botanic garden, to record how many days it took the peas to germinate, and to sketch our an idea that you have for next summer's containers. An organized and approach with complete instructions on how to organize, record and remember your gardening efforts and gardens!

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#05-Fertilize Effectively

This small project shows you how to improve the fertility of your soil so that your plants are healthy, beautiful, productive, and resistant to pests and diseases. This project will show how to establish a simple routine to boost and maintain your soil's overall health and how to prepare a few special seasonal garden banquets. Find valuable materials to feed your soil in unexpected and inexpensive resources. Complete with shopping list, tools needed and installation instructions.

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#06-Stay On Top Of Weeds

Weeding is an essential part of good garden hygiene. This small project outlines a defensive and offensive plan to prevent weeds from getting the upper hand in your garden. This is an easy, organized approach to weeds and includes Katherine's favorite tips for chemical free, safe weed killer made from ingredients in your kitchen! Maintaining a tidy garden will also help to keep your waistline trim and bring you inner peace, so how's that for payoff?

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#07-Don't Get Bugged

This medium-sized project helps you to prepare lines of defense against bad bugs. This project shows you how to assemble an organic arsenal should the need for offensive actions be required. Take your garden slugs out for a cheap beer! Opposites attract - onions & roses! Loaded with effective prevention strategies and solutions including an organized list of tools and items to have on hand creating your very own "Don't Bug Me" kit! Must-Have information for all gardeners!

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#08-Water Wisely

This medium-sized project will help you set up and plan how to use water wisely in your garden. It also tells you how to use kitchen water, how to collect rainwater, and how to set up a hose and sprinkler system. Water Wisely is a hands-on activity that helps you to realize the value of the commodity you're using. And really, when is the best time to water your garden? The answer will surprise you!

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#09-Attract Birds

This small project outlines ways to attract wild birds to your garden with water, shelter, and food. Birds are nature's own bug zappers and are part and parcel of a well-balanced, organic environment. Any gardener is wise to roll out the equivalent of an avian welcome mat to these feathered friends. Birds, like any welcome guests, are not only great keeping their hosts entertained, but they also help out with the chores. Follow Katherine's 13 easy steps to bringing birds to your garden and l

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#10-Install a Deer Fence

This is a large project with a huge payoff! Here you will learn how to install a reliable deer fence that will protect an area with a perimeter of 300 feet or less.

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#11-Determine a Destination

This small project shows you how to determine your garden's destination (or destinations) and how to create a sense of "there" there.

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#12-Dad-io Patio

A large destination patio for lounging and dining can be a big, rewarding do-it-yourself project. Up-front design thinking will assure your Dad-io Patio is the destination of your dreams.

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#13-Decorate Your Garden

The Quest for that perfect garden ornament can be as creative as any other aspect of gardening. This project explains how to focus upon finding your perfect garden ornament and lists suggestions for positioning it for the biggest wow factor.

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#14-Plot Your Paths

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#15-Hedge Your Bets

This large project explains how to plan and plant a hedge. Planning is crucial to your eventual hedge happiness. Planting a hedge is simple and instructions and installation directions are included.

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#16-Get Vertical

Add vertical areas to your flat garden in a small, medium or large way! Learn how to make a twig teepee, a pea trellis and a gourd arbor all in Katherine's l easy to follow steps.

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#17-Perennial Pleasures

This medium-sized project shows you how to plan and plant a garden bed full of perennials. Perennials provide depth and oomph to the flower garden. Perennials are the workhorses of the ornamental garden.

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#25-Plant Perfumes for P.M.

This medium-sized project shows you how to intensify the enjoyment of your after-hours garden by adding scintillating, wafting, evening plant perfumes that charm you into a more relaxed frame of mind. The workweek fact of life for most of us is that, from Monday until Friday, darkness usually descends upon our gardens before we do. Instead of lamenting lost afternoon rose moments, promise yourself a guilt-free garden cocktail outside under the stars while enjoying perfumes from your own beloved patch.

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#30-Pick Your Own Salad

This large project shows you how to lay our and plant a salad garden to feed two people and their weekend guests.

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#32-Have Some Herbs

This small project shows you how to plant an herb patch. Culinary herbs are simple to grow.

We have a great garden planning software that will help you with your gardening plans. You will be able to use our gardening downloads to help make your garden the best it can be. Don't delay and download your gardening pdf plans today.

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