With these 16 frugal DIY ideas for garden, you can enhance the way your garden look like. Check out!
1. DIY Hose Reel
Make this unique and inexpensive hose reel from a rim and a spray paint of your favorite color. Find more about this idea here.
2. Use Muffin Tins to Plant Seeds
Use a muffin tin to create evenly spaced planting holes to plant seeds. Read more of it on A Thrifty Mom
3. Use Fruit Crates as Planter
You can find wooden fruit crates at dirt cheap rate or absolutely free in fruit shops or grocery stores. Use them to grow plants!
4. Wine Bottle Edging
If you like to collect wine bottles this idea is for you. Make wine bottle edging in your garden. Read many other ways to use wine bottles here.
5. Garden Markers from Old Spoons
Old metal spoons can be beaten flat carefully with a hammer and then painted creatively to make cheerful markers. See detailed post on Turning The Clock Back.
6. Diet Coke Can Hacks
Empty cans must not be thrown away. You can spray paint them and use to put cut flowers or herbs or to grow some plants. See this amazing YouTube video to learn how to do this.
7. Bottle Fence
This might be tricky, use bottles to make interesting things in your garden.
8. Tire Planter
If there are creative juices flowing in your blood, make colorful tire planters. Treat this as an opportunity to upcycle old tires that probably would have been eating space of your garage. Learn more about it.
9. Hanging Herb Garden from Coffee/Tea Cups
If you want a little herb garden within easy reach for some fresh herbs when cooking try this idea.
10. DIY Golf Ball Ladybugs
Make these pretty ladybugs for your garden from golf balls, here’s the tutorial.
11. DIY Garden Art Mushrooms
She used stainless steel bowls to make these mushrooms. Read more about this project here.
12. Knotted String Hanging Planter
For this fun DIY, you’ll need strings to make a hanging planter from the recycled material. Bowls, jam jars, plastic takeout containers, and yogurt cups can all be repurposed into a modern and functional hanging planter. Check out the tutorial here.
13. Shoe Organizer
A shoe organizer is a wonderful way to build a vertical garden. This not only looks great but it saves space as well. To make this, just fill each shoe space with potting mix and plant your favorite plants. Tutorial here.
14. Hanging Gutter Garden
Old gutters can be repurposed into a great hanging gutter garden. It is one of the best ways to use up the vertical space. Strawberries are super easy fruits to grow in gutters, check it out.
15. DIY Plant Picture Frame
With just a few household items you can DIY a succulent living wall. We have got a tutorial available.
16. Frying Pan Birdbath
Have an unused lamp and a frying pan? Use it to create a birdbath. See the more of it here.
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