Frugal gardening, what frugal gardening did you do today?

pookiewn

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I got this for free last night, it's going to be turned into my new compost bin! :j

icecreamdogpark

I`ve planted up 2 wicker hanging baskets found at garden centre pot recycling bin with tray of begonia`s,fushia`s x3, ivy x 1 big enough to slpit,hopefully once they fill out a bit will look good for total out lay of £3 for the plants in the bargain corner,gave them nice fresh compost and a feed hopefully they`ll thank me :rotfl:

heynonnynonny

GarnetLady wrote: »

Went to the local skip today, (sorry, civic amenity site :rotfl:) to dump another load of stuff from the back garden and we found an abandoned a slightly sorry for itself azalea. Been tidied up and potted, hoping it'll start looking happier soon.

Ooo how could anyone abandon a plant! That's shocking, at least it's got a good home now. I'm rubbish with azaleas can't keep 'em alive :rotfl:


Well done pookie and icecream on the wooden bin find and wicker baskets find I'm jealous!!

mama67

Dh has been collecting all sorts of containers from work, which would only have gone in the skip, plastic storage boxes mostly.

So I have used these as tubs for growing things in as we haven't got all our garden cleared and ready for planting.

Most of the seeds I have used have been the digin ones from this year and last,with a just a few bought ones to fill the gaps; I have bought a few veg plants which we were way too late to sow seeds for (sprouts and leeks) but otherwise the only cost has been some potting compost for statring the seeds off and for the tubs.

Next year will be better as we will have our own compost to use so may only need seeds and maybe a bit extra compost for starting off.

pookiewn

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I got the wooden bin from the local greek shop, it's used to keep the water melons in. Shall try and get another on in a couple of weeks as the neighbours are giving us their kitchen compost waste.

wssla00

My next door neighbour has a bamboo tree in the garden. The gardener had chopped it down a bit but put all the trimmings in my bin. I have been merrily taking out the bamboo canes for my garden!

GarnetLady

heynonnynonny wrote: »

Ooo how could anyone abandon a plant! That's shocking, at least it's got a good home now. I'm rubbish with azaleas can't keep 'em alive :rotfl:

I know! Cruelty to plants, that's what it is... It's been potted up with some ericaceous compost and seems to be doing okay, well so far anyway!

It's my first, so fingers crossed!

Orange_King

I took some small pots to the garden centre recycling skip and in return got bigger pots for my tomatoes. While there, I also got 3 hanging baskets and a propagator that was still in very good condition

And this was the day after I made £115 in sales from my plants at the school fair! A good weekend all in all.

zarazara

I have split and repotted some basil seedlings out of 1 pot into 3 outs :-) I am looking forward to lots of herb to use in pasta sauces.

Steel_2

Hubby has just come home with a wooden double garden seat with attached table in between. Apparently, the owner was putting it out for the council to take away as they couldn't be bothered to rub it down and paint it.

I now have a lovely shabby chic hardwood garden set (that originally cost over £100) for nothing.