The Great 'Re-use from the house into the garden' Hunt

andalusi

I just joined this forum and wanted to give a couple of garden ideas, but................I couldn´t find how/where to post. Only found where to reply. Can someone help me please. Many tx:cool:

cas.dean

Whilst walking my dog one evening I spied a bed that had been dismantled and left outside a house. Since the head and foot board were a nice iron design I asked if it was being thrown away. Having been told I could take it I took it home and used all the bits to convert the headboard into a garden seat and the footboard is now mounted on a wall and is a nice trellis for my climing jasmin. The total cost a little time and £3.45 for a small tin of black paint.

andalusi

I know how to reply so I can reply to myself :rotfl:
A couple of ideas which may help.
I had a very thin Jacaranda newly planted and the wire I used to support it was damaging the bark when the wind blew so I got a piece of rubber gas tube and thread the wire through that first. Excellent protection.
Used plastic colanders to plant fresia bulbs in huddles, then when weeding/turning soil didnt lose the bulbs.
Had some old thick knee pads from back when I had an injury. As hubby insists on kneeling to tend to garden I make sure his knees are protected.

Brooktop

You can clean silver items by lining a bowl with alumnium foil and adding warm water. Then pour in a mugful of soda crystals and a reaction will start to occur. Add your silverware and the reaction will help remove the tarnish that has built up by oxidisation. Buff the silverware to clean and dry it.

Then tip the remaining water onto drives and patios to help kill moss, or pour it down the drain to help prevent greasy/dirty build up.

KatrinaC_2

andalusi wrote:

I just joined this forum and wanted to give a couple of garden ideas, but................I couldn´t find how/where to post. Only found where to reply. Can someone help me please. Many tx:cool:

Hi Andalusi!

If you look at the top of this thread you'll see a box with a series of links in. The links are:

MoneySavingExpert.com Forums - If you click on this it will take you to the main forum list with details of all of the forums and links to them.

Home, Work and Play - A list of the forums which deal with, well, saving money at home, work and play.

Greenfingered Money Saving - The link to the board this thread is on.

Similar links appear at the top of all of the MSE forum pages and make it easy to navigate about.

Hope that helped!

Kat

Wiggly_Worm

Oh, just remembered this guy - his website is appalling but his ideas for recycling plastic milk containers in the garden/on an allotment are awesome. This is an interview with him which explains it all much better :rolleyes:
http://www.forkzine.co.uk/interview2.htm

I've already started saving mine - yet another thing for DH to despair over :rotfl:

This is a great thread with brilliant ideas - keep em coming!

Deb_Williams

This is a bit specialised, but hey.....

When my kids were younger they were members of a swimming club, and had all the training kit. Now they're grown, I use their kickboards (large swim floats to you!) as kneelers in the garden and on the allotment.

stilernin

I use plastic 'pop' bottles for watering seedling and small plants. Also good when giving 'doses' of feed to individual plants.

!!!!! a few holes in the bottle top with a darning needle. Only pin pricks, not big holes you can always make them bigger if necessary. When you invert the bottle and squeeze the water will come out, but it the flow stops immediately you release the pressure. This means you can control the amount of water on seedlings or for each pot.

I leave several filled bottles in the greenhouse or next to seed trays in the garden, this takes the chill off the water if it has come from the tap. Very handy too when you are short of time but plants need watering.

digit_2

Old rubber gloves especially the yellow ones.

Cut off about 1" of the good fingers and place on the top of canes in the garden to protect your eyes. The rest of the long fingers can be stretched on to handles of most smaller tools used in the garden giving extra grip with added bonus of being easier to see as well if left in the garden.

The cuffs of the glove can be cut straight across making several rubber bands of varying widths. These have a thousand and one uses in the garden or garage or anywhere.

Another use is to cut just the tips off a pair of rubber gloves and wear an old pair of woollen gloves underneath. Great for winter jobs round the garden.

Jayar

Digit, I shudder to think of the number of pairs of leaky rubber gloves I have chucked.
No more ..... thank you.