Home Depot wants to give one lucky ITGO reader $100
by Colleen Vanderlinden • June 4, 2009 • Miscellaneous • 16 Comments
I was recently contacted by the folks at Home Depot about running a giveaway here on In the Garden Online. While I’ve been trying to focus more on local businesses here, I couldn’t pass up the chance to give one of my darling readers a hundred bucks. Well, in all honesty, I very nearly went out and spent the $100 myself last night, but no, dear readers, your happiness comes before my own. (Remember that!)
Home Depot has a Garden Club, which you can join to get gardening tips, coupons, and instructions to help you take on a variety of garden-related projects. They also have a searchable plant library and plant care guides.
What I need you to do is visit the Home Depot Garden Club site and look through their list of garden DIY projects. Choose one you are interested in (though I can guess most of you would end up blowing the money on plants…) and come back here and tell us which one you chose. Pretty simple, eh?
You can comment between now and midnight on Sunday. Monday morning, my lovely assistant (AKA my daughter Emily) will pick one commenter’s name out of a hat, and that person wins.
Unfortunately, though I wish I could open this up to everyone, you have to live in the U.S. to win the gift card. You also have to have a mailing address (not a P.O. box) that I can send your gift card to.
Good luck, all!
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If I win, this will be donated to a community garden!
Their garden diy projects really aren’t that interesting to me. Either they aren’t things that are applicable to my yard (landscape fabric, island bed, pruning a rosebush), aren’t the right time of year (starting seeds indoors, preparing a garden bed), or are just too elementary (caring for annuals, training a vine over an arbor). They do seem to be well-written for a beginner.
In fact, of all the diy projects in their garden club section, the only one that remotely interested me was the build-it-yourself storage bench/planter box. I’m surprised they don’t have a similar page for a cute little potting bench – that would really be of interest to me!
Preparing Garden Soil would be my choice, we have such bad soil that I find myself spending most of my gardening budget on soil ammendments. After 7 years though, it’s making a HUGE difference. I’m starting to find earthworms and other good things when I dig.
Making my garden beds bigger is always an expense because I have to buy so many ammendments. I’d spend the 100 on soil ammendments and make a new flowerbed.
Well, well, well. Must say that your timing is perfect. We would like to remove about 1/2 of our very thirsty backyard turf and replace it with pea gravel and sandstone pavers. This area will house the outdoor fire pit and drought tolerant shrubs and plants. As you can imagine, this project will help us save a lot of water during Idaho’s hot dry summers. So, that would be my wish — $$$ for this project’s stone materials. Thanks for considering it… Teresa
I’ll have to go with “Starting Veggies from Seed Indoors”. It’s almost time for me to start the next round of Tomato seeds (and some other veggies) for the second Texas growing season.
My choice from Home Depot’s list of projects would be building a garden bench. I need a place to store my tools down by the fence. Also, I have already done a kid sized version of their picnic table. I don’t have enough paving bricks saved up yet, but I plan on doing that project too, eventually. Or maybe just a garden path! Later.
I’d do the vine-covered arbor. I have the perfect spot for it, and have been working on convincing DH how nice it would be.
I’d like to learn how to install pavers in sand. After that replace an existing border with drought tolerant plants.
Okay, I pick the garden path and have my fingers crossed that Emily finds me!
Hi Colleen, I visited the Home Depot Garden Club Website and checked out all the DIY garden projects and the two that jumped out at me right away were Determining a Problem on Your Lawn and Grow a Putting Green. Our lawn has only had a few good years, 2002 and 2003, when we had Tru-Green Chemlawn. I noticed right away that we seemed to have fewer butterflies and after they fried my lawn and killed a bunch of perennials and shrubs when we were out of town in 2004 that was it. Fast foreward to today and there is some grass with the clover, creeping charlie, queen anne’s lace, dandilions, black-eyed-susans, thistle, bind weed, I’m sure I’m forgetting someone, that covers the soil here. The Putting Green would be for my dear husband who is always getting dragged into my “help the neighbors” projects.
I’m interested in the pavers project and the landscaping fabric.
I would re-do some of my raised beds in the vegetable garden!
Hi Colleen! I would choose the Building an Island Bed. I have areas in my lawn where the grass is patchy. I would love to replace that with additional flower beds. The less lawn to mow, the better!
Hi, Colleen — I would love to build some raised garden beds for vegetable garden. I also am planning on creating garden paths, along with garden beds, prepping soil for buffalo grass, and… oh the list goes on!
My choice would be building an island bed. We built our house last year and are still trying to get grass and landscaping established. We have several places in the yard that we can’t get grass to grow so building an island bed would make these areas look better. Thanks for hosting the giveaway!
Laying Landscape Fabric was just what I was looking for. I have a small koi pond (3×5) in the corner of my back yard, with a dry river bed flowing from it past planting areas to my patio. Problem is, I didn’t think about the weeds before I put in the river rocks. Now I know how to solve the problem. I’m going to rake up all the rocks onto the patio, lay down the landscape fabric, and put the rocks down on top of it. I’ll be able to cut the fabric to the form I need. I’m also going to use it when I re-do my walk way on the other side of the garden. I have beautiful stepping stones and creeping weeds. This will no longer be a problem by the end of this Summer. Thank you for the idea. Problems solved.