Frugal gardening, what frugal gardening did you do today?

carole.uk

zarazara wrote: »

potted up a strawberry runner.

so did i 2 actually i also potted 5 tomatoe plants into old plastic pop n milk bottles and i am also making neetle feed mmm well think i am its stewing away at the bottom of the garden :rotfl:

zarazara

I ordered some veg seeds with a 15% off discount code. Cant wait for them to arrive so I can get planting.

heynonnynonny

Homebase grow your own gardeners delight tomato pack, terracotta pot, compost and seeds - 10p !! Picked up 4. Will come in for next year or for some lovely gifts.

And also a margeurite standard for a quid and a bush one for 20p they tried to overcharge me luckily I noticed. Grand total - £1.60

GarnetLady

heynonnynonny wrote: »

Homebase grow your own gardeners delight tomato pack, terracotta pot, compost and seeds - 10p !! Picked up 4. Will come in for next year or for some lovely gifts.

And also a margeurite standard for a quid and a bush one for 20p they tried to overcharge me luckily I noticed. Grand total - £1.60

Wow, you must be well chuffed with those! :T

wssla00

I have had such a lovely response from freecycle regarding a post where I asked for any extra plants and I am getting:

Strawberry plants, Tomato plants, leeks, raspberry canes, a tay berry plant and a load of seeds ready to be planted now

Also got a blackcurrant plant for 99p today reduced in Lidl! Oh! And found out I have a elderflower bush at the end of my garden

heynonnynonny

I am so pleased with finding those definitely! Well done on getting the plants from freecycle that's lovely. A lady in Homebase asked if I'd like one of her tomato plants as I was looking at the reducred ones, I declined with having about 8 of my own but that was a nice thought.

full-time-mum

full-time-mum wrote: »

We retrieved a number of palletts from the nearby industrial park. OH has now made me 2 raised beds for herbs/veg.

Now just need to find some free topsoil/compost to fill them!

Managed to find someone offering topsoil on Freecycle. Downside was that it had to be dug up and deweeded.

Now have 2 beds containing beans/sweetcorn and herbs/salad leaves/radish etc.

rosalie-lavender

I bought five lovely strawberry plants from of all places a local chinese restaurant. "Five for 1.50 pounds."

BOGOF_Queen

Went for a walk round the lanes here and noticed that someone must have thrown some garden waste on the grass verge. Noticed a lovely perennial geranium and some blue irises both in flower. So I went back later with a trowel and dug some of it up. Ground here rock hard due to lack of rain so couldn't get all the roots out with my trowel. They are now potted up ready to go in my garden once they have grown a bit more. If they survived being thrown away, I am sure they will thrive with a bit of TLC.