Project book · an hour or two

Mulch a flower bed

An hour, and the beds stop needing weeding every weekend.

How big is the bed?

square feet

This fits in a car

About 624 lb of materials. Comfortably inside what a car carries (200 lb), so any shopper can take it.

What to buy — untick anything you have

Soil

Hardware

Tools — already ticked off, since most people have them

Tools

It lands in the shopping form, where you can edit anything and say what you think each thing costs. Nothing is ordered until you send it.

How it goes · about an hour or two · beginner

  1. Pull the weeds out first, roots and all. Mulch over live weeds buys you about three weeks.
  2. Lay the fabric across the bed and pin it down, cutting slits where plants come through.
  3. Set the edging along the front so the mulch stays where you put it.
  4. Spread the mulch about three inches deep, and keep it a couple of inches clear of any trunk or stem.

Something else

Build a raised garden bedPaint a roomPut up garage shelvingFix a patchy lawnBuild a fire pitMount a TV on the wallCookout for a crowd

Feeding people instead? The recipe book works the same way — pick a meal, say how many, every ingredient lands on the list.

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