Gardeners Corner!

Garden Ideas for Using Old Items that Hang Around – Save Landfill!

• Don’t buy plastic pots for seeds and seedlings – use egg boxes and old paper cups.
• Plastic bottles cut in half  make great mini-greenhouses.
• Old wheelie bins make compost bins and water butts and storage bins. Or build a compost bin from pallets.
• Improve the ecosystem by using buckets and sinks and bathtubs as ponds – encourage frogs and toads, which eat slugs. Add pond weed and a couple of logs.
• Train your climbers up an old ladder.Have you thought of ‘gutter gardening’? Attach guttering to your garden walls or fences, to grow herbs or strawberries, etc in horizontal rows.

Wildaboutgardens.org.uk is a BRILLIANT website – crammed with info and things to do in your garden to support nature.