Price : $8.79

Product Description

Create your own private nature preserve-with dozens of ingenious ideas to turn a typical backyard into a beautiful natural habitat for birds and other wildlife.

Experience the gratification of watching birds gobble seeds and other treats from your homemade bird feeder. Look on with delight as a mother bird tends to her babies in the protective hideaway of a birdhouse you have lovingly constructed from a dried gourd. Create a sunflower plantation, a bird teepee, a tent-style twig feeder, a pedestal birdbath. Follow the step-by-step instructions in this book, and your yard will quickly become an enticing playground, breeding ground, and feeding ground for colorful songbirds. And that’s not all-there are also projects specially designed to attract beautiful hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden.

Among the book’s special features:
- Projects require only a few simple tools and supplies and most can be easily and inexpensively assembled using only scrap materials found around the house

- Information-packed sidebars include tips for identifying the nests and eggs of songbirds and unusual facts and figures about birds and bird behavior

- Instructions show how to create baffles and barriers to keep squirrels, raccoons, and other unwanted guess away from the birdseed-along with projects for tending to these feeder-raiding marauders too!

The simple pleasure of viewing birds in your backyard is something to treasure every day of the year. Whether you are a seasoned bird watcher or are new to the hobby, you will find a wealth of inspirational ideas here to attract more birds than ever before to your backyard. And you’ll increase your enjoyment of this soul-satisfying pastime.

Customer Reviews

Review date : 2008-07-18
Some great ideas…quite practical uses for otherwise discarded items and the birds really do respond! Highly recommend for group scouting project ideas because they generally don’t require specialized tools or unusual materials. I recycled several items that were otherwised destined to be thrown away. Thanks! Enjoy!

Review date : 2008-02-24
I own a good dozen or more books on how to attract birds to my garden. This book is definitely one of my favorites.

It contains a variety of very easy projects on best ways of providing seeds, making your own bird treats (like those expensive seed bells they sell in stores), creating feeding stations, planting habitats, setting up water stations, birdhouses and more. There is also a section devoted to hummingbirds and butterflies.

I really like that it isn’t a bird or plant identification book. One of my pet peeves with many of my other "project" books is that they dilute their content by including bird identification charts for instance – often up to 1/3 of the book with another third devoted to pictures and descriptions of the plants. I’d rather leave that to a specialized book and let my project books be filled with (imagine this) projects! There is a small amount of this type of information in this book, but it’s generally to the point and captured in simple and easy to read charts. I would suggest anyone looking for that type of material should buy appropriate field guides.

I love that the projects are pretty much entirely able to be made from recycled materials (like using the plastic tubes that tennis balls come in or metal coffee cans or plastic plant saucers for instance) and scrap wood. They are very easy and could be wonderful projects for engaging your kids with nature and getting fast results. Tips are also included for maintenance too (such as keeping feeding stations looking their best).

I also love the garden ideas – simple plans for small patches of specialized garden areas – there’s one for a self-renewing bird attracting garden with a ton of seed-producing annual flowering plants for instance; a garden for producing nesting materials, another for attracting butterflies by providing food for their caterpillars, one for hummingbirds and a number of others.

Overall, if you are trying to attract birds to your yard and especially if you are looking for ideas for projects you can do with your kids to give them an appreciation for nature, I think you can’t go wrong with this book.

Review date : 2007-12-27
This book will delight the Do-It-Yourself types who would rather put something together and attract birds to their backyards than to merely observe them in the wild. It’s a sturdy, glossy trade paperback with detailed line-drawings, tables, side-bars, and step-by-step project sheets.

It starts with a section of fast-and-easy projects for beginners to get your feet wet with the easiest of the various types of woodworking, cooking, and gardening projects you can do to attract birds.

Later chapters go into detail on each of the specialties (woodworking, cooking, gardening) so that you can either do it all or just focus on the chapters that address your talents.

The book also includes a Projects-at-a-Glance index so you can look up things to do involving Nesting, Water, Landscaping, et cetera. Highly recommended. Longer review at OrnateBirdGarden-dot-com.

Review date : 2007-02-21
This is a great book for anyone interested in backyard birding, no matter what size your backyard may be. There are articles on how to attract, feed, and house different birds.

Review date : 2007-02-16
I like this book. I’m a new bird watcher. I’ve made some of the projects mentioned in this book and they work quite well.

Price : $8.79

Product Description

Create your own private nature preserve-with dozens of ingenious ideas to turn a typical backyard into a beautiful natural habitat for birds and other wildlife.

Experience the gratification of watching birds gobble seeds and other treats from your homemade bird feeder. Look on with delight as a mother bird tends to her babies in the protective hideaway of a birdhouse you have lovingly constructed from a dried gourd. Create a sunflower plantation, a bird teepee, a tent-style twig feeder, a pedestal birdbath. Follow the step-by-step instructions in this book, and your yard will quickly become an enticing playground, breeding ground, and feeding ground for colorful songbirds. And that’s not all-there are also projects specially designed to attract beautiful hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden.

Among the book’s special features:
- Projects require only a few simple tools and supplies and most can be easily and inexpensively assembled using only scrap materials found around the house

- Information-packed sidebars include tips for identifying the nests and eggs of songbirds and unusual facts and figures about birds and bird behavior

- Instructions show how to create baffles and barriers to keep squirrels, raccoons, and other unwanted guess away from the birdseed-along with projects for tending to these feeder-raiding marauders too!

The simple pleasure of viewing birds in your backyard is something to treasure every day of the year. Whether you are a seasoned bird watcher or are new to the hobby, you will find a wealth of inspirational ideas here to attract more birds than ever before to your backyard. And you’ll increase your enjoyment of this soul-satisfying pastime.

Customer Reviews

Review date : 2008-07-18
Some great ideas…quite practical uses for otherwise discarded items and the birds really do respond! Highly recommend for group scouting project ideas because they generally don’t require specialized tools or unusual materials. I recycled several items that were otherwised destined to be thrown away. Thanks! Enjoy!

Review date : 2008-02-24
I own a good dozen or more books on how to attract birds to my garden. This book is definitely one of my favorites.

It contains a variety of very easy projects on best ways of providing seeds, making your own bird treats (like those expensive seed bells they sell in stores), creating feeding stations, planting habitats, setting up water stations, birdhouses and more. There is also a section devoted to hummingbirds and butterflies.

I really like that it isn’t a bird or plant identification book. One of my pet peeves with many of my other "project" books is that they dilute their content by including bird identification charts for instance – often up to 1/3 of the book with another third devoted to pictures and descriptions of the plants. I’d rather leave that to a specialized book and let my project books be filled with (imagine this) projects! There is a small amount of this type of information in this book, but it’s generally to the point and captured in simple and easy to read charts. I would suggest anyone looking for that type of material should buy appropriate field guides.

I love that the projects are pretty much entirely able to be made from recycled materials (like using the plastic tubes that tennis balls come in or metal coffee cans or plastic plant saucers for instance) and scrap wood. They are very easy and could be wonderful projects for engaging your kids with nature and getting fast results. Tips are also included for maintenance too (such as keeping feeding stations looking their best).

I also love the garden ideas – simple plans for small patches of specialized garden areas – there’s one for a self-renewing bird attracting garden with a ton of seed-producing annual flowering plants for instance; a garden for producing nesting materials, another for attracting butterflies by providing food for their caterpillars, one for hummingbirds and a number of others.

Overall, if you are trying to attract birds to your yard and especially if you are looking for ideas for projects you can do with your kids to give them an appreciation for nature, I think you can’t go wrong with this book.

Review date : 2007-12-27
This book will delight the Do-It-Yourself types who would rather put something together and attract birds to their backyards than to merely observe them in the wild. It’s a sturdy, glossy trade paperback with detailed line-drawings, tables, side-bars, and step-by-step project sheets.

It starts with a section of fast-and-easy projects for beginners to get your feet wet with the easiest of the various types of woodworking, cooking, and gardening projects you can do to attract birds.

Later chapters go into detail on each of the specialties (woodworking, cooking, gardening) so that you can either do it all or just focus on the chapters that address your talents.

The book also includes a Projects-at-a-Glance index so you can look up things to do involving Nesting, Water, Landscaping, et cetera. Highly recommended. Longer review at OrnateBirdGarden-dot-com.

Review date : 2007-02-21
This is a great book for anyone interested in backyard birding, no matter what size your backyard may be. There are articles on how to attract, feed, and house different birds.

Review date : 2007-02-16
I like this book. I’m a new bird watcher. I’ve made some of the projects mentioned in this book and they work quite well.

Price :

Features

• Revolutionary kitchen appliance lets you grow your own food indoors all year round right in your own kitchen
• Adaptive Growth Intelligence delivers the perfect amount of light and nutrients from germination to maturity for fast, full growth
• Includes Gourmet Herb Seed Kit and grow bulbs
• Organically based and 100% natural
• Measures 15.5 x 18 x 10.5 inches; 1-year limited warranty

Product Description

AeroGrow AeroGarden – Pro 100 Stainless Unit – w/Gourmet Herb Kit – 2500-00S AeroGrow’s Pro 100 garden uses microprocessor controlled Adaptive Growth Intelligence™ to monitor the plants’ natural growth cycles from germination through advanced growth and automatically adjust the nutrient delivery and light cycles to give plants exactly what is needed at each stage of the plants’ growth, maximizing yields. Also includes grow light replacement reminder system and the Super Grow 24-hour light cycle.

The AeroGarden Includes:
1. Built-in plant lighting system – Full daylight spectrum, energy efficient grow lights (Grow light bulbs included.) allow you to grow anywhere. No natural sunlight needed.

2. Aeroponic optimizing chamber – Creates a near-perfect rainforest growing environment.

3. Computerized “smart” garden technology –
• Built-in micro-processor automatically adjusts nutrient delivery, light cycles, and water for specific plant types.
• Built-in light timer turns lights on and off.
• Built-in reminder system automatically alerts you to add water and nutrients.

Free Seed Kit also included with each AeroGarden:
A. Pre-seeded bio-dome seed pods – Enclosed in their own mini-greenhouse for ultra-fast germination.

B. Time release nutrient tablets – Perfect plant nutrition with 65 macro and micro-nutrients for optimal plant health.

C. Tending & Harvesting Guide with recipes – Walks you thro

Customer Reviews

Review date : 2009-04-04
I wish I had known when I dished out well over $100 that the pump was so noisy I need earplugs to concentrate if I’m in the same room with my new AeroGarden Pro 100. I’ll try moving it to the garage.

Review date : 2009-03-04
I asked for and received the pro 100 and south of the border seed kit for Christmas. The pro 100 was easy to put together and I quickly got to starting my herbs. Long story short the epazote and one of the cilantro pods never sprouted. After 3 weeks of wating to see if something would happen I called AeroGrow.

I was greeted with a recording that said the wait time on Mondays and Tuesday was the busiest and then I was given an estimated wait time of 2 hours!!!! WHAT? 2 hours? Obviously I hung up. I have nothing better to do than stay on hold for 2 hours??

I took pictures of the plants that grew and the ones that didn’t and sent an email off to AeroGrow customer service. I got an auto reply that said they would respond within 2 weeks. That was over 3 weeks ago and I haven’t heard back from them.

I am disgusted with the lack of customer service and will be selling my Aerogrow at a yard sale in the spring. I refuse to purchase another seed kit or anything else from this company.

I am wondering just how many complaints/issues they must have that it would take them 2 hours to get in touch with by phone and almost a month with no email reply??

Review date : 2009-02-27
From box to complete setup was a breeze. Instructions were easy to follow – the most complex part was setting the light timer.

I don’t like the mix of herbs that came with the Garden. I wish I could have selected my own preferences. It makes the initial cost go up if you intend to change to new plants.

Review date : 2009-02-18
I bought this as a present for my wife. She’s a really green thumb anyway, but in the winter, it’s hard to get things growing too well.
So, after the first four weeks, it’s been a smash hit with her!
It really does work, light goes off and on, add the water and tablets on occasion and the herbs grow lusciously like a beanstalk!
We both are really enjoying it. Recommend, it’s fun!

Review date : 2009-02-16
I own three AeroGardens which include the classic black 7-pod, the Pro 100 and the Elite 6. Of the three, the classic and the Pro are the better models in my opinion. The classic 7-pod is whisper quiet. I planted the salad chef greens which included romaine, mesclun, baby greens, arugula and salad greens. All sprouted, but the arugula and baby greens did not do well at all. It might be that I was using regular tap water; however, the rest of the greens are growing very well. The leaves are HUGE.

For the Pro 100 I planted the cascading petunias. Of all three gardens, these took the longest to sprout, but now they are going like gangbusters! The Pro 100 is just like the classic black model except it has stainless steel accents. It is also very quiet except for the sound of trickling water occasionally. This sound will only occur when the water gets low in the bowl. Once you refill to the fill line, the noise dissipates.

If you are in the market for an AeroGarden, I would recommend either the classic or the Pro 100. Both have 7 pods for planting.