Suggested Cheap Christmas Gifts for Gardeners

What to Buy the Gardener This Christmas when on a Budget

Jackson Lewis
Friends and family that garden can be difficult to decide what to buy for Christmas or other Holiday gifts. Next to actually working on the garden or other indoor potted projects, gardeners love to read guides to starting new or unusual activities to start new projects for the coming growing season! This article has five great and cheap guides to new activity ideas for the gardener for inexpensive Christmas gift ideas this season.

Guide to Growing Grapes

My Grape Vine is an outstanding product to get any friend or family member that is a fairly inexpensive as far as grape growing guide go at $47.95 through the online ordering system. This is a great product to get if your friend or family member has tried and failed at growing grapes, or just hasn't given it a chance before. For the purchase price, the guide is a great deal since you'll actually have three different mediums to give as gifts: 1 - The e-book, 2- The course on CD, and 3 - The course on video. Definitely a great, cheap Christmas gift for the gardener.

A Practical Guide to Orchid Care

A very challenging flower to grow without experience is an orchid. This great beginners guide to growing orchids from ochidcareexpert.com is a steal at $27.77. The orchid guide has step-by-step instructions for beginners to include explicit steps on watering, temperature maintenance, humidity and so forth. It also covers how to pollinate orchids, propagating them, and growing orchids from seed. Perhaps the greatest feature of the guide is that it lays out a seven step procedure for producing hybrid orchids as well Some of the bonus gifts that come with this guide are two additional gardening guides, Green Thumb Gardening and Gardening Tips and Ideas. All in all this is another good inexpensive Christmas gift for the gardener.

Hydroponics Secrets

Hydroponics refers to a method of growing plants without soil only using mineral nutrient solutions. Many gardeners shy away from attempting projects in this area because of just not having the right 'How-To" guide on growing plants hydroponically. This guide from homemade-hydroponics, is great to start off the experienced gardner into a new project that can be started before the spring growing season! This guide goes through all of the necessary steps for the beginner to start his or her own hydroponic growing system for materials less than $50.

Guide to Beginning Beekeeping

For just $27, this "How-To" guide from Beginner-BeeKeeper.com is an excellent, cheap, Christmas gift for the gardener. Instead of assuming that the reader has experience with bee-keeping, it takes the reader step-by-step through how to get started and ultimately expand one's bee colonies if this activity is one he or she enjoys. Buying this guide online like with many others, also provides other free gifts to the purchaser to further augment your Holiday gift present for the gardener that includes a second guide on "How to Extract Honey" from your hive. Definitely a good, cheap Christmas gift for any friend or family member who is a gardener and likes to work outdoors!

Guide to Making the Best Compost

You might chuckle at this gift idea, but many gardeners are always looking for a way to make better compost for use in their gardens to get healthier plants and better production out of vegetable gardens. From WorldsBestCompost.com, this package is an excellent Christmas gift idea for the gardener. At $37.77, this guide is a great deal for any friend or family member who is into gardening this Holiday season.

Published by Jackson Lewis

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  • 3lilangels11/21/2008

    very nicely done thanks!

  • jcorn11/20/2008

    I actually believe in the art of making good compost :) although you are probably right about people chuckling over it.

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