The Kiwi Backyard Handbook

Includes 25 step-by-step garden and landscape DIY weekend projects.

By Justin Newcombe.

The Kiwi Backyard Handbook is an essential guide if you’re a new home buyer or planning a garden makeover. It contains more than 25 easy but impressive projects with step-by-step photographs to stir up your creativity, along with a wealth of good advice to get you started. From laying pavers to building a compost bin, growing fruit and vegetables to DIY sculpture projects, these’s plenty of inspiration and practical instruction on how to make the most of your backyard.

Whether your backyard is a quarter acre or a tiny patch of lawn, or it you aspire to a veggie patch and a few chooks or to relaxing by a palm-edged pool while the barbecue sizzles away, The Kiwi Backyard Handbook will help you to create a space that works for you.

Includes:

• Starting a garden – including companion planting, crop rotation and garden structures
• Creating compost and building a wooden compost bin
• Lawns – including mowing strips and laying turf
• Setting up a workshop and basic kit
• Fence building
• Raised beds – both wood and block and plaster
• Pavers and stepping stones
• Screens
• Water features
• Garden sculptures and furniture