I noticed I had an old broken upvc front door lying around. I wondered if I should take it to the recycling centre or should I repurpose it for 🪴🌿?
Here lyeth an old front door.
This will suppress the pernicious weeds and be another plant platform my ever increasing perennials and shrubs that I have propagated.
I started to fill up. Not emotionally I mean the door.
Why buy landscape fabric when you have got an old door?
One man's trash is another man's treasure!
I noticed I have some old corrugated iron roofing sheets. I was going to use them for scrap but I think I will repurpose them for plant standing areas.
Your door is much better than using any types of membrane and it will last much longer., so a double win. For me it's half full, plenty of room for more plants.
ReplyDeleteVery true Marlene. I try to repurpose what ever I can and use it for my veg and plants and it's free unlike Mypex landscape fabric.
ReplyDeleteIs that the door to The Underworld? There be demons.
ReplyDelete"Who lives in a house like this? " A Banshee perhaps? They are very down to earth.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea. I suppose you could use anything, but that door looks very smart!
ReplyDeleteThanks JayCee. My allotment apprenticeship taught me how to repurpose things for free. One allotment holder dried his onions in a Asda supermarket trolley and another one had down the sheets on his shed with rocks and lumps of concrete. Another one made a polytunnel out of plastic water pipes and polythene sheeting.
ReplyDeleteWe have an old door hanging around somewhere but I don't think it would enhance our garden. I can just see the weeds popping up all around it in the winter. Yours looks good but you know how to recycle these things
ReplyDeleteAnything will suppress the grass and weeds Linda. Old tables make great plant platforms. Living in between fields it's always a relentless battle to fight the ever encroaching vegetation.
ReplyDeleteMostly I used old capers on my allotment
ReplyDeleteI miss those days
Same JG. Allotment camaraderie is something else.👍
ReplyDeleteI saw someone had repurposed a series of old doors into a sheds. Now that I'm thinking of it, a lot of people have repurposed old windows into greenhouses. Is this something you could do to replace 'Portugal'?
ReplyDeleteThat's what we plan to do Debby and make a potting shed to start things off and somewhere to garden even when it's raining. I have spent 500 Euros on galvanised steel for the frame. Nothing is cheap to make these days.
DeleteI love repurposing anything. Especially in the garden. I love the quirky look recycling gives the gardens. I’m not one for manicured to within an inch of their lives gardens. They have no soul
ReplyDeleteTotally agree Angela. Make do and mend and repurpose.
ReplyDeleteDave - seems to me you will use anything. There is nothing of use lying around ours and even second hand doors have to be purchased. I'll try to collect up some cardboard perhaps but even cardboard has value thee days.
ReplyDeleteKeep looking TM. Builders skips, waste transfer stations. Builders providers damaged goods. Rocks, branches...
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