Category: Recycling projects
Each year we always need to earn a bit of seed money for the school garden. Why not plant a gift for Mother’s Day and have a mini plant sale the week before the special day?
Start by planning ahead. Check out local thrift shops for bone china tea cups without the saucers. What I have found is many thrift shops throw teacups that are missing their saucers into the trash. If you ask, they may even wish to donate the tea cups to your school garden. What a great way to recycle something that would have been otherwise thrown out.
You could also collect old tea pots. These are all very beautiful planted up with flowers. The trick to planting tea cups is using the right plants. I like to plant Violas for this project. They are small flowers with a small root system and fit perfectly into most…
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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
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!
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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
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
Here’s a great DIY idea for a portable infant doll’s house…via ‘Let the Children Play’
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2 person pallet chair
Pepsi Max crate chair
Hammock
Pallet furniture and other garden recycling projects seem to have been especially popular this last year
Pallet coffee table
Pallet adirondack chairs
Chair covered in bark- comfy?
Light box from pallets
Trunk swing seat
Pallet sofa
Bench made from 2m pallets
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