What do we do with items we have finished using? Well, if you know your three ‘R’s, you can stop them ending up in landfill and bring a little personal character to your garden decor.
Save unused items from a trip to landfill. With an open mind, just about anything lying around the house can be upcycled. • Used takeaway coffee cups are perfect to reuse for planting out seedlings or sowing seeds. Puncture a few holes in the bottom of the cup for essential drainage, use your favourite premium potting mix and plant away. Egg cartons are also great to sow seeds. • Reuse shaker fertiliser bottles. Refill contents and shake away. • Old busted tyres, reinforced concrete steel, old windows and doors can all be garden features. • Any unused household objects that you can drill holes in the bottom can be used as a planter. Woven baskets, bowls, etc. • Use old hessian or patterned fabric to make kokodama balls. • Reuse used perfume, diffuser bottles as vases. Reshape old barbed wire • Smash up broken ceramic pots to line new into a decorative pots for excellent drainage. trellis
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Reuse reinforcing concrete wires as a wall trellis.
Paint old tyres in multiple colours to match flowering plants.
Frame your garden with old
window frames.
