Frugal gardening, what frugal gardening did you do today?

pookiewn

I've been using a dismantled canvas wardrobe frame bits as support for my squashes and toms. That I got for free!

covlass

Fast running out of space in green house, I only have a plastic one. I found some 2x2" wood in shed so cut 2 pieces just a bit smaller than my green house & put them a few inch's apart on top shelf, works great and my hanging baskets sit there just nicely. Just hop hubby does not need that wood know !!

jennyjelly

Recent Garderners World mags 6 for £1 in the CS, excellent!

Same shop also has a sale of all gardening books for 50p each - bought 12 really nice ones!

Filey

I now save my milk bottles/jugs/whatever you call them, slice off the bottom half to plant things in and use the top half to snip plant labels, because they are a)cheap and b) BIG. I can write plant names in BIG letters so I can read them without too much peering.

SailorSam

Just read in the freepaper, if anyone lives near to StHelens the council are giving away 30 tons of compost on Sunday 2/5/, 10am at Clock Face.

knithryn

Having seen that newspaper is put in the bottom of bean trenches to hold water, I've done the same in the pots and planters - just scrunched it up and put it in the bottom. I'll let you know if it works!
Also stopped my elderly neighbour from buying hanging basket plants at £1.29 each from the garden centre and bought the £2ish pack of 6 from Aldi for her instead. Also got gel liners for baskets 4 for £1 from a pound shop and saw them at £6 in the garden centre.

hermum

Beltona wrote: »

We've almost finished building a 16x6ft greenhouse out of old windows from freecycle! Its brilliant!!

Are you going to have time to load some pics of it Please.

hermum

I've had a really good well week or so.
First came loads of raspberry canes.
Then pallets, so now have 2 cold frames.
Compost bin.
Water butt.
A load of tester pots of paint, I thought that I would prime, paint & then varnish all the tins I've been saving & use as herb planters.
All the above courtesy of the lovely people on my Freecycle.
B&Q redcurract bush, half price.
CS, lots of older style fruit & veg gardening books, most have sections on what to do with your produce.
An old Jam & Chutney cookery book.
I absolutely love this frugal living lark. It is just so much more fun than just going & buying stuff, which is good as I no longer have the money to do that.

heynonnynonny

Not done yet but going to get some fallen thin branches from the wood and make some obelisks and things, also need to scrounge some to try and make a cold frame out of my ripped wilko greenhouse cover.

LJM

recieved 2 lots of dig in seeds today free and also got yesterday 12 black flower buckets from morrisons for 99p. my mother in law came down from derbyshire and gave me a big pot of apple mint free and my dad has given me 2 marrow plants also free. ive done very well these last 2 days,very happy