Category: Gardening equipment and tools


Latest Garden Recycling Projects

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13/01/2014

Here’s my latest trawl of interesting projects to enhance your garden. Most are from 1001 Pallets and a few from The Container Gardening Alliance.

Furniture…

A log lounger..
Baby chair from pallets…
Swinging bench from pallets..

Planting spaces…

A greenhouse from old windows…
A planter ladder….
An ‘A’ frame planter with old plastixc bottles, and cartons as containers..
‘Rustic raised beds’ !!
An experimental pallet garden..
Give plants a hand..
Drawers for plants…
Raised planter for my aching back…

and a few more unusual items….

A mobile bar – stools stowed underneath..
Old shutters used for decorative screening/fencing
Canadian rustic retreat..
Pallet Meeting Point..
Tool rack from pallets by Kylee Baumie at mylittleacre.com
Pallet bug hotel..

Old School Gardener

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Garden resolutions for 2014

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31/12/2013

Do you have any gardening resolutions for 2014?

Mine are to:

  • grow less food (to eat as much but to waste less)

  • install a water feature (probably a half barrel)

  • stake my herbaceous plants earlier

  • thoroughly mulch my fruit bushes with well rotted manure

  • actively manage my compost bins, and

  • try to inspire some children and young people to get into gardening.

Old School Gardener

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What are your resolutions?

May the year 2014 greet you with days as fragrant as roses, as colorful as rainbow, as bright as sunshine and as happy and cheerful as a lark.

 

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What can I do with all those old plastic bottles?

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29/12/2013

Here’s a brilliant (if labour intensive) way to recycle old plastic bottles- as roofing material!

Cutting these bottles lengthwise creates perfect ‘hill and valley’ shaped’ tiles that can be interwoven
Alternatively, you can just squash the bottles and overlpa them like roofing slates!

Old School Gardener

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Recycling outside- latest projects

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27/12/2013

Following the popularity of my previous collections of recycling project pics, here is another batch.

First, furniture….

Lounger from pallets
Bench from pllets
Now that’s what I call real ‘recycling’- coffee table made from old bicycle wheels!
‘Jack and Jill’ seat from pallets

Next childrens’ stuff…..

Cabin from pallets
Childrens’ futrniture from pallets and a cable reel
Planter entrance to a play area from pallets

Now some other useful garden structures……

Vertical planter from pallets
Water butt screen from pallets
Chicken Coop from pallets
BBQ from pallets
Compost bin from pallets

And finally a couple of mega projects to really inspire!

A ‘pop up’ music mix deck from pallets
A beach house from pallets

Most of these pictures come from the very useful site 1001 pallets, so thanks to them and their contributors!

Old School Gardener

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Upcycled Pallet Projects

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12/12/2013

A few more examples of creative projects for childrens’ play, shelters, planters and other projects for the garden and open spaces. Most from the site 1001 pallets.

Pallet play kitchen
Pallet play house
Pallet box planter
Pallet garden room
Pallet summer house
Pallet planter fence
Pallet pyramid planter
Pallet raised planter
Pallet herb planter
Pallet nature platform
Pallet cycle rack
Shed- come growing space extraordinary
Pallet fence with integral strawberry planters
Seasonal pallet creation!

Old School Gardener

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PicPost: Shelf Life

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04/12/2013

Neat idea for growing food and other plants outside your window- especially useful for urban areas where apartments have no outside space.food growing shelves via grow veg

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Build your own mini Indoor Greenhouse

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28/11/2013

indoor greenhouseBuild your own indoor mini greenhouse – looks like a job for someone beyond basic skill level!

http://www.runnerduck.com/green_house/green_house.htm

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PicPost: Dig It

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25/11/2013

PicPost: Horror

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Picpost: Tardis Shed

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20/11/2013

Picpost: Tardis Shed

A garden shed made from old doors. Why not paint it dark blue, add a blue flashing light and ‘Police’ round the top?

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PicPost: Scoop

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25/08/2013

PicPost: Bottle scoop

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