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Acquiring equipment for gardening can be expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. We’ve put together a list of items you can reuse and recycle in your garden.
Most of us care for the environment and recycle what we can. However, there are so many ways to repurpose otherwise useless junk in your garden.
In this video we identify common household items which can be reused and demonstrate how to adapt them to benefit your plants.
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Really inspiring ❤
Fantastic and realistic ideas! Thanks!
What is the name of plant which is growing in water ?
I love this channel. I've used a few of the ideas and they've worked perfectly.
My mum used to use old butler sinks. She even used a toilet (cleaned, of course!) that she found in a skip up the road from us. I remember a pair of old welly boots were used at one point, too.
Instead of the flower pots on the cane supports, I use empty plastic bottles. My favourites are lemon juice bottles (not lemonade), and the ones which hold the individual servings of yogurt type drinks, but I guess any will do. I find that flowerpots and other wide necked containers often lift off the cane in high winds (which we get a lot of).
Thank you! I love the video.
You optimally want to be using biodegradable materials, but the problem with paper (toilet paper roll centers, etc.) is that like any untreated wood, it will mold.
I use old builders sacks, the sort sand and clippings are delivered, as compost bins. Filled to the top, they contain more than a cubic metre and I put in a few worms to populate the bag as they can’t move in and out.
Thanks mate! I'm going to use a big pine chair my stepdad made , its rather large, so the seat will convert to a nice veggie garden, can't wait!
Great as always
Old freezer baskets are great for herbaceous plant supports ,turned upside down you won't see them when the plant grows
I upcycle HDPE supermarket 2l milk bottles as hanging 'baskets'… the handle will slide onto a short strip of baton screwed onto a fencepost so I cut off the front upper part. 2 or 3 on each side of the baton mount-point to balance. My fence posts have a fair few on them with my strawbs and tumbling toms.
I use lots of stray sticks, poles and discarded fencing for trellising. I recycle my cardboard for sheet mulching, too. Overturned plant pots provide great protection for plants hardening off. I also like to use plastic bottles for drip irrigating tomatoes and peppers. Found pallets, milk crates, and tires are frequently repurposed in my garden as well.
The Wife lol.
I make my plant markers with old cottage cheese and yougurt containers, since China no longer recycles for the US., we try to not buy one serving size. We all must make a difference and stop purchasing plastic. We made raised beds out of old fruit crates, old commercial mixing bowls, and hollowed out tree trunks, old army boots for suculants, its fund to repurpose interesting garden items that personalize and are inexpensive. Ive even planted in an old purse.
I'm trying potatoes in cardboard boxes this year. Also thinking of trying frozen blueberry plastic bags for potted plants.
Old scaffold boards make superb raised beds and they last for years and years. Companies can only use them for a short while under Health and Safety laws.
Amazing ideas. I will try the individual shade house using the plastic bottles.
Some great ideas. Thanks!
My Grandpa used an old toilet as a gardening container. He used whatever he felt would work. Off the garden subject but he made a portable bar out of an old TV!
I have some old corrugated plastic roofing/siding that I am thinking about making a 4'x4' (1.25 meter by 1.25 meter) compost pile with for my chickens.
The chickens will eat the older fruits and veggies while helping with the compost by pooping on it.
Then you rotate the pile the next week and let the chickens have at the bugs while you start your next pile. 🙂 (rotating every week so the compost doesn't get moldy)
Great, cheap, chicken feed AND fresh compost for the garden after 5 weeks.
Im making some garden planters on legs out of old window frames I found in the street at the moment. The frames are made from very good quality hardwood so they will be perfect. I also found a drainpipe in the skip – gonna cut that lengthways down the middle to make two long planting 'gutters' for salad/herbs and strawberrries that can send their runners along them. I will attach these to the our wooden fence.
We have used our old fridge freezer to grow salad crops in , we removed the gas bottle and doors la it on its back and drilled holes, its brilliant
Aren't old tyres and some plastics toxic?
I use an over-the-door coat hanger (3 hooks) to hang my trellises, in the off-season, to keep them up off the ground.
I use old beehive boxes as instant raised beds, and my son's kiddie pool and sandbox became strawberry beds, which doubled as an incentive for him to help me in the garden. He saw those beds as "his" gardens. I used his climbing toy and the monkey bars as trellises for the heavier fruited vines, such as pumpkin and butternut squash. Just because my children grew up doesn't mean those items are good-for-nothing.
You gave me soooo many ideas! I absolutely love your channel!