Not all spaces are created equal. Renting means you have to ask permission from your landlord before doing anything dramatic to the property, this sometimes means no garden. Another set back would be the idea of spending money on temporary living spaces. According to online surveys, the average person stays in a house for about three years. Meaning we waste money and time just to have it ripped out by the next tenant. We are resourceful and there are things we can do to spruce up our yard.
Recycled Gardens
The fun thing about gardens they can be literally grown anywhere and in anything. Take a look around and you may already have a few objects around the house you can use to spruce up your backyard. I love Pinterest because they have a million and one ideas about turning recycled materials into miraculous garden hacks.
An example is finding 5-gallon buckets and with a little spray paint create your own flower pots or mini garden. You can plant grape vines and strawberries, there are so many different edibles that can be grown in a bucket. You can also color coordinate some flowers and line them along a pathway.
Stringing plastic two-liter bottles together is a great use of recycling and create a hanging garden that you can place on a porch or from a tree branch. If you have kids an article in the latest Parent magazine showed how to get kids involved by allowing them to paint faces on the bottles and turning them into vases.
Old tires can also be used as single garden pots or find creative ways to stack them up and plant a variety of flowers. Cinder blocks is another idea to create a wall of flowers or a raised garden. The nice thing about tires and cinder blocks is they can found almost anywhere for free. Spray paint can improve the look of almost anything and add an extra pop of color to any backyard.
What more can I say?
The exciting part of having an above ground garden is you can control the soil content and cuts down on weeding. If you are like me, weeding is not the highlight of my gardening experience.
You also can arrange your garden over and over again if you decide later on you don’t like the original layout. When renting you know that eventually moving, if you decided too you can pack up your garden and take it with you. In the winter you can move smaller plants inside to keep away from the frost. The ability to move them around also makes mowing the yard a little easier.
Even if your landlord tells you not to dig up the yard, don’t let that stop you from getting your green thumb dirty. Get creative, get planning, get planting! The cost of your imagination and the hard work that comes from building your garden wonderland is priceless. If you need help coming up with ideas for your recycled garden pots, visit Pinterest. The possibility of creating your dream garden is endless.
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