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Recycled Garden Planters: Old Toolboxes

August 28, 2016 By Karen Creel

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I love to go to local flea markets and antique shops, looking for items I can use as recycled garden planters.  I tend to be drawn to galvanized buckets, tubs, and as of late, metal toolboxes.  When I don’t pay much for an old bucket or tub, it doesn’t bother me to put them out in the garden, even if they only last for a few years.

Recycled Garden Containers: Bike and Toolbox

I’ve had this bicycle for over 10 years and paid about 15.00 for it.  It has been painted several times, and has now found a permanent place under a pine tree covered in ivy.  These impatiens in a rusty toolbox add a little color to the otherwise all green setting.

Recycled Garden Container: Metal Toolbox

Weather won’t bother this metal toolbox.  The more rust the better!

Recycled Garden Containers: Old metal toolbox

If you love gardening with recycled garden containers here are a few tips:

  • If the container is large, place it where you want it, and then fill it.  They can become VERY heavy once filled.
  • Be sure it drains well.  If it doesn’t, you can either create holes in it, or place your flower pot directly into the container.
  • Use a well draining potting soil.
  • Remember, plants in pots and containers will dry out quicker than plants in the garden. Check them frequently. In hot weather, this may mean watering everyday.

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Gardenchick is a place for gardeners, flea market fanatics, lovers of the farmhouse look, and purveyors of all things rusty!

I’m not sure when my fascination with junk began, but gardening was in my blood from an early age.  I remember my grandmother could throw a few seeds out and have the prettiest flowers.  Sweet peas were rampant beside the front porch.  I can see her now, bent over pulling weeds, and I find myself doing the same thing anytime I’m in the yard.  My dad was raised on a large farm, and even though he moved away, and we always lived in the city, he had a garden.  He had me help him  plant a garden in May before he died in August.  So you can see, gardening just comes naturally to me.

I can’t explain the love of rusty and all things chippy, but I have dug through more barns and sheds than I would like to admit to bring out a rusty wagon or old chicken feeder.

So, I hope you will follow along, and we can learn a few things together.  I’ll be sharing gardening ideas, my flea market finds, and thrifty ways to repurpose.

 

 

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