Make something beautiful of your space with little money! AND grow your own food!!

~The idea here is to make something beautiful without spending alot of money!!!!   USE WHAT YOU HAVE!!!   When you are making your garden it can be expensive, UNLESS, you look around for what you need and try imaginative ways to come up with something that will work!

My garden.... 
Eucalyptus, peas, onions, lettuce, cucumbers, herbs, beans, grapes, blueberries, tomatoes, peppers, hibiscus, strawberries, peach tree, figs......

No stressful weather here!  This nice little relaxation platform comes from Hurricane Shutters that were getting thrown out from a local Charleston Hotel years ago!

Listen to this!!!    Snow Peas growing up a cd rack!
The unwanted cd holder is a great support for snow pea pods! The dangling decoration is actually beading from a chandelier that was getting thrown out!

                                                     

Time to eat!!!  The baby grapevines made alot of grapes last year!  They are also getting ready to make more grapes this year! They are growing on the frame of an old table!

For the larger grapes, I have inverted an exerciser that was getting run to the town landfill!!  It will be awesome soon, as the grapevines are starting to grow quickly!  It will be a great support!

For these tomato plants.... I took the bottom out of an old plastic rubbermaid tub container (you guessed it, that someone was throwing out) to make the planter!

Stumped....?   Use what you have!  Our large silver maple had to come down because of injury.   However, instead of having the stump removed (which saved us money) we  hollowed it out to make a planter for some pepper plants and a hybiscus plant.

OH BABY!!!  Last year, the grapevines were growing so fast that they need some more support. Their new support was the end side of a Jenny Lind Baby crib that I had in the shed! (yes - again it was originally on it's way to the landfill)

This aloe plant and onions are growing in a square planter that is actually a shelving unit for screws and hardware that was fixin' to be thrown out!

This touch of decoration is a few feet left over from our Silver Maple.  On top is an old cast iron tractor sprinkler and old horshoes ~both from yardsales.

These squash plants are thriving in old piping
that was being pumped to the landfill.  Instead it was converted
to raised planter beds!

A hotel was serving up these dishes to the landfill~ instead they now

mark where I have planted a new plant, and keep the weeds from

growing there!

The beautiful garden accent is actually a lamp shade for a hotel lamp! It doubles as a protective cover for new sprouting plants!  It also, was getting

shown out to the garbage! But not any more!   Also, there is an old boat anchor that was getting tossed overboard to the landfill!  We rescued it to
become a garden ornament!

The wood railings come from left over limbs from our silver maple, and

handmade tent poles that were getting thrown out.

Herb and Lettuce Garden right out the back window...so when you get hungry, make that sandwich with ever available lettuce, and seasonings!! The lettuce just keeps growing back! : ) The containers are made from a children's desk drawers that someone was throwing out. The large planters, you guessed it - someone didn't want them anymore...... RECYCLE! : )

This next one is not too difficult to figure out!   It was an old kiddie pool that had holes in it!  Instead of going to the landfill it became a planter.  The post is an old curtain rod earmarked for the garbage.   And the screening for the peas to climb up is a piece of a dog cage that was getting thrown out!

I took the chairs that went with the table (for the grapes) removed the bottoms and put planters (that also were getting thrown out) into them.

This cute little garden addition includes the child's desk that was getting tossed to the landfill!   We have made all the drawers into planters!

SO ~ you get the idea!!   Use alittle imagination, open your eyes, recycle, and make your space beautiful at the same time!