Creative Household Container Usage for the Growing Season – Seed Sowing Collect Your Toilet Rolls & Newspapers How and Why You Should Collect Toilet Rolls and Newspapers to Plant Seeds This Spring Starting seeds in spring is an exciting time for gardeners, and collecting toilet rolls and newspapers now can help you create sustainable, costContinueContinue reading “Creative Household Container Usage for the Growing Season – Seed Sowing”
Category Archives: Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose
DIY: Building Raspberry Support Structures From Pallets
REPURPOSING & REUSING Getting Started When you plant Raspberries you have to also plan for their support system. Raspberries are usually planted in rows with a system of posts and horizontal wires/string to support them. If you don’t have room for this, you can grow them singley in a pot or in a container supportedContinueContinue reading “DIY: Building Raspberry Support Structures From Pallets”
Using Milk Cartons To Plant Sweetcorn
Using Milk Cartons To Plant Sweetcorn Repurposing & Reusing Repurposing milk cartons for gardening is an eco friendly and cost effective way to start your sweetcorn plants. These sturdy containers provide an excellent environment for seedlings, giving them enough space to grow long roots in before transplanting them into the garden. Preparing the Milk CartonsStartContinueContinue reading “Using Milk Cartons To Plant Sweetcorn”
Building A Lawn Edging & Window Style Box With 1 Pallet
REPURPOSING & REUSING What Did We Do? Using 1 pallet we cut up the wood to make several usages, first some lawn edging, I say some because we have a large section to cover and will need maybe 3-4 more pallets to finish this off. Secondly we made a window style box that holds 22ContinueContinue reading “Building A Lawn Edging & Window Style Box With 1 Pallet”
DIY: Cold Frame From A Bed, Pallets & Shower Curtains
DIY: Cold Frame From A Bed, Pallets & Shower Curtains This DIY project is all about sustainability, creativity and practical gardening. By repurposing a metal bed frame, scrap wood, old pallets, and used shower curtains, we’re building a cost effective cold frame to extend the growing season and protect plants from harsh weather., while usingContinueContinue reading “DIY: Cold Frame From A Bed, Pallets & Shower Curtains”
DIY: How We Grow Food in a Vertical Garden Using Milk Cartons On A Fence – 2022 UPDATE
How We Grow Food in a Vertical Garden Using Milk Cartons On A Fence – 2022 UPDATE Not being happy with the amount of plastic that was going to landfill, we wanted to come up with a solution to help reduce that. When researching I came across plastic milk cartons being used on the windowContinueContinue reading “DIY: How We Grow Food in a Vertical Garden Using Milk Cartons On A Fence – 2022 UPDATE”
-No Waste Wednesday-What To Do With All The Little Bits Of Cardboard
What Do We Do? There are so many bits of cardboard and paper that comes through the post nowadays, there’s a bigger box with brown paper packing inside, then a smaller box with the product in. Trays of tins come on brown cardboard, extra strips of packing in furniture boxes, amazon envelopes, the list goesContinueContinue reading “-No Waste Wednesday-What To Do With All The Little Bits Of Cardboard”
-No Waste Wednesday-How We Grow Food in a Vertical Garden Using Milk Cartons On A Fence
What Did We Do? Not being happy with the amount of plastic that was going to landfill, we wanted to come up with a solution to help reduce that. When researching I came across plastic milk cartons being used on the window sills for herbs, just the bottoms used with drainage holes. I thought whyContinueContinue reading “-No Waste Wednesday-How We Grow Food in a Vertical Garden Using Milk Cartons On A Fence”
-No Waste Wednesday- How We Use Insides Of Toilet Rolls In Our Garden
What Did We Do? First we start by collecting all the inside of the toilet rolls all year round. Usually gives us around 3 a week 150ish over the year. We collect them ready to use in April to plant seeds in that we want to grow a little taller before planting out, like BroadContinueContinue reading “-No Waste Wednesday- How We Use Insides Of Toilet Rolls In Our Garden”
