25 Cheap or Free Garden Gear Items: Repurposing

Today’s feature is from Better Homes And Gardens with 25 No-Cost (or Low-Cost) Garden Tools:

Milk Jug Mini-Greenhouse By bhg.com

Any job is easier when you have the right tool.

Read on for our list of the 25 best ideas for garden tools that you can buy or make in minutes — and none costs more than a pack of seeds.

Ideas Include:

• The Magic Milk Jug: Cut off the bottom to use as seed flats; Cut off the bottom to make a mini-greenhouse; Make some clever cuts to make a sturdy scoop.
• Vinyl Tablecloth: Use a vinyl tablecloth, plastic side down, to transport heavy items like bags of mulch, plant divisions, or balled-and-burlapped trees and shrubs.
• Yogurt Containers: Protect young seedlings from night-crawling cutworms by surrounding them with a collar made by cutting the bottom off a yogurt container.
• Newspapers: Over a few months, the newspaper will smother weeds and grasses, then decay into the bare soil. You now have a pristine planting bed ready to receive trees, shrubs, or flowers.
• Plastic Dish Pans: Fill with some potting soil and supplies, and you have a portable potting bench that you can take anywhere.
• Old Towels: An old bath towel gets a new “leash” on life, supporting a tomato plant’s heavy stems. The look is a bit dowdy, to be sure, but the gentle caress of the terry cloth is ideal for the vegetable patch. Best of all, one towel can be cut into enough strips to last a lifetime. Also see 10 Ideas for Recycling Old Towels.
• Coffee & Tuna Cans: Use these straight-sided containers to collect and measure rain and sprinkler water. That way, you can be sure that every part of your garden is getting the an inch of water a week.

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