I bought the small wire garbage cans from the Dollar Tree and put over my plants that the rabbits and squirrels were trying to eat. Worked great and cheap! I love all your videos!
Another NUT like me, always thinking creatively ! Once a teacher, always a teacher ! Love it, I feel I am not alone ! Keep creating, keep the dump clean !!!!!
I love that you encourage us to shop around for creative garden items. You give us great cost savings ideas and resources. Gardening can get very expensive as you know so inexpensive solutions is a great gift to all of us. I watch other garden influencers and they have good ideas but most of them are pushing products and seem to have deep pockets when putting together garden projects. Thanks Linda for making us feel like no matter what your budget you can produce a productive and beautiful garden.
You are so right. Gardening can be so expensive. Even if you have the money though, I think it is so worthwhile to try to reuse things that already exist. Plus I do love the patina of all things. As long as we are careful not to make it look junky and to use things in a intentional stylish way, I think it’s a brilliant solution
I've been getting items for the garden from thrift stores for years! I love seeing how you use some of the things that I pass up. Now I will look at them with a new light. Thanks
Oh Lindavi Love, Love, Love Shopping Thrift store and garage sales. Thank you for all your tips. So until next time God Bless you and Stewart and have a Blessed day and Stay Safe my dear Friends.
😅😆 you made me laugh when you said your husband has been mercilessly (and your son's also), making fun of you with "you are so creative" in that high pitch voice..... 😆 It's their "creative way" if verbalizing their love for you 💖☺️..... Loved one like teasing us but him being your camera person is showing great support ☺️ (even if he is laughing at you behind the camera and behind the scenes). Love your thrift finds and the uses you did with them!
I have a wire basket exactly like your number two item. Mine was from my previous refrigerator. I too use it in the garden.so glad I saved it. Very useful.
You inspired me. I love to shop at thrift stores but I will definitely be looking for stuff I can use in the garden now. And Thanks for the ideas for discouraging the squirrels. I'm about to scream with frustration!
RU-vidrs seem to find neat stuff at thrift stores. Maybe I don't have the gift for spotting such great items, but it's nice to see what others score. Glad you're out in the garden again.
Awesome! My greatest "transformation" was an vintage pedestal for a sink; from a salvage store. With an vintage light shade on top.....walah.....a bird bath. I spray painted the pedestal a bronze so it blended but still held its own. Total cost: $25 for a one of a kind.
What wonderful thrifted items repurposed for the garden. You have given me so much inspiration. Thank you for this video. I really enjoy watching your junk store finds.
Love your creativity and enthusiasm! Your family can tease you mercilessly all they want but you know they actually respect and admire your brilliant ideas and thriftiness! You've inspired me! Thank you!
Hi Linda, Debra from Memphis here, girl you are a woman after my own heart. Not everyone has a eye for these great thrift stores recreation,I am new to your channel, but belive you me I will be looking forward to your great ideas in the future be blessed.
I have so much stuff saved and my husband is starting to call me a hoarder but I have plans to make a green house this year and I am excited to use all my junk to work for me
@@lisasrexstar7796 am i invited? my hubby of 50y does call me hoarder, he is a male minimalist and i am afraid i drive him a bit crazy with my repurposing. i use the great big plastic pots as a in site compost bin, i pile leaves and grass clippings into them and after winter just tip them out in their location, no carting of heavy compost around.
Last summer I repurposed an out of use wrought iron plate hanger that displayed three plates vertically. I hung it on the fence and hung three plant pots from it!
I use egg shells to start those finicky nasturtiums and anything that doesn't like being disturbed. Just like a hole for drainage while germinating, plant the entire egg shell and you've feed your plant as well. Snake shed scares the squirrels away also, they don't want to be eaten. As a child we used pieces of an old water hose which worked for awhile, think they finally figured it out though.
Linda Vater what a creative detective......you know how to think ahead, and create in your mind something that other haven't got that gift. Love your determination. And you know how to recycle everything. Again rare gift.
I never had problems with the squirrels, until last summer. I did the hot pepper seeds on the tops of my veggies plants. It worked for a while, you just have to do it often. This spring I will be using rubber snakes, I was told that squirrels don"t like them. I will keep you posted.
Love all your ideas! When I potted up some tulip bulbs, I was planning on just crossing my fingers that they’d survive the squirrels. A couple of days later I came across a couple battered hanging baskets buried in the garage. I upended them in the pots cloche style (they fit perfectly inside) and now every bulb has come up. I wish that was the case in the flower beds. 🤷🏻♀️
Chicken wire spread over your flower beds would probably work to thwart the squirrels and other bulb-eating critters. If you don't like the wire showing, cover it with mulch.
I am so much like you. I found all kind of treasures in my basement. We look for old chairs and take the bottoms out and put netting and put flowers. I use an old metal wheelbarrow with holes.put dirt and 💐 flowers. I love all of your ideas. I use old beautiful plates , bottles, glass bowlset c in my gardens.
I too found some gardening pants at Goodwill! Not as fancy as yours, but I was so pleased because they’re cotton and a name brand so good construction. I used to wear worn out jeans but they were too heavy but these pants are so lightweight I can wear them even on hot days and they protect me from bug bites, etc. And they only cost $3.99!🦋🐰🌷Thanks for the inspiration-new subscriber!
Get some Breck’s coral bells. In ground, or pots, mostly shade, keep soil moist, add coffee grounds 1x week for 2 weeks, mix or put next to ladies mantel. I emailed them photos of those coral bells and they are absolutely thriving now.
I love your channel. Thank you. I can no longer garden but you are giving me ideas for my gardener. I am also having a small conservatory added to my house so I can sit in winter sun. I need lots of ideas for plants to pack it full for next winter. I get so excited at the thought. Thank goodness you don’t do mosaic. I have just watched a garden full of it. It is not a plant. A birdbath and sun dial I have but what a garden is , is plants.
I love your show!!!! It's 2:36 a.m. and I just can't seem to stop viewing all the goodies you share with us. Thanks for providing great ideas for those of us who LOVE to shop in thrift stores.
I think I’ve decided that you’re my spirit animal 😂 awesome videos, fab inspiration and it’s so refreshing to know I’m not the only one that refuses to spend more than I have to to garden here in the UK! Thank you for sharing 🙌🏼 x
Last time I went to Restore another customer was standing in line with s beautiful outdoor urn. It's all in being at right place right time for those great finds at thrift, charity and consignment shops!
Hi Linda, I am new to your channel, love your content. I have been gardening for 8 years and love it. This year I will be using my twin sons' wagon. They are 31 now, but it took me a long time to decide to use it. I will use it to hold some of my veggie plants, making it easier to move them around my backyard chasing the sun.
Beautiful treasures I love the thrift store we used to get talked about as a child for shopping at thrift stores but oh how the same ladies that had something to say back then boy do I run into all of them shopping there
Love these finds ! I went to drop off at Goodwill & an older gentleman was dropping off 4 large & medium tall glazed terra cotta pots, I asked if I could have them & he said sure! They were glazed red, and I painted them with some epoxy paint I had laying around from a porch painting project, which I tinted a couple of different shades of light terra cotta letting the red peek through in some spots. They now look like aged terra cotta & I absolutely love them! Thank you for all the inspiration, you are amazing!
I just stumbled upon your channel. Absoltely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your eco-friendly soul. I too love to upcycle EVERYTHING. I LOVE "trash" to treasure using the term (trash) lightly. Most things people toss - usually have so much life left and can always be upcycled into something beautiful, and useful. I really enjoy to re-use, recycle, upcycle, multi purpose items. Thift stores, consignment, flea market, garage, yard, and estate sales = THE BEST! We all can help do our part, and stop buying new. (Some items must be new. Non negotiable = under wear, bras) 😁 We need to stop being a 'throw away' society. Thank you for taking time to share your wonderful videos with all of us. Sending hugs, beach vibes, and sunshine- from the Texas Gulf Coast 🤗🏝🌅 Mel
Love the ideas and the focus on sustainability and reducing plastic. Would be awesome if you shared more about the harms of plastic for your viewers who may not be aware. I’ve recently learned plastic can only be recycled once and much ends up in the oceans. It feels like no one else knows and/or cares. 😢🐬Thanks Linda for sharing your beautiful garden with us. I have learned so much. 😍🌳🌷
Your bonus basket is a harvest basket! I use mine for more than harvesting; I stand mine on end and set a pot on it indoors in winter. I use it as a weed basket - the roots dry as I'm working, and the soil falls back into the garden. You've given me more ideas as well! Thanks
Such excellent finds and tips! You have a good eye and imagination. Stewart better be nice to you, there’s more of us then him!🤣😉However the terminator comparison was spot on.
More great inspiration - I have been to the Goodwill weekly. I am getting to know the merch in my store very well...LOL. Thank you - enjoyed this very much!
Just found your channel! Where have you been hiding??? How refreshing to see gardening through your eyes! Love this episode...love those pants! What a great idea! Yesterday I purchased a pair of work overalls and never thought of walking across the street to my local Goodwill and looking for second hand, already broke-in work pants. 🤦🏻♀️ Now I must binge watch your channel to learn more valuable tidbits of garden knowledge! Thank you, thank you for sharing. I too am obsessed with all things topiary! 🥰🙌🏻👍🏻🌺
You mentioned battery operated candles in the garden. I decided to use them in the gazebo. They were in the shade but we just had a heat wave in the Pacific Northwest. 113 degrees by our thermometer. They melt! Even in the shade, so bring them inside if it gets too hot. I now have deformed battery operated candles. LOL
I recently found a light colored rattan bowl on a pedestal (in almost perfect condition!) at a thrift store and knew that I’d found a Linda Treasure! I added a wooden bowl, some lemons and their leaves and I had a table centerpiece! I’m much more aware of the value of recycling formerly loved treasures now.
Love recycling op shop things it gets me so excited just getting something for small coins and turning it into a gift or for the house and garden the fence. Love watching your video's so inspiring thank you 💚
The repurposing videos are wonderful...please keep them coming! The candelabra is SO cool...excited to see the finished product. I recently found beautiful gardening books from England at the thrift store. $2 ea :)
I love your ideas of using candlesticks in the garden which I always passed up. You have good eye. The fist non-essential store I will go is the Thrift store when it's reopened.
I just rescued a bowl out of the goodwill box. I’m going to repurpose instead of giving away. Thanks Linda. I agree with Stewart, you are so creative 🧤
Linda all very gr8 ideas 😄I love the thrift stores💟 i find gr8 finds for the yard & my home. & look at you in short sleeve its 34.& sunny here in Rehoboth beach delawere. But its supose to reach 64 next week !. iam heading in the yard to do clean up today love your videos.
I was just watching this video again as I clear out "links" I've saved - and I'm not deleting it! I have quite a few thrift store candle holders in my back yard I use for solar lights. And another view of this video gave me the idea of using a candle holder/metal planter basket as a lantern!
1st I love your style, 2nd your gardening esthetic is so unique and last I love the idea of thrift gifts! The basket on the candle holder is simply genius...So inspiring!
So many great ideas! I love repurposed items! We recently repurposed a swing set into a chicken coop! Thank you for your great ideas! Now I want to run off to a thrift store! :)
Hi Linda great video lots of great ideas of different ways to use all types of things in your garden. I love recycling. I do it lots on my garden to. Love your trousers what a great way to use them in your garden. So useful. And bad Stewart for mocking Linda.
Oh Linda. I loved this video. Spoke to my thrifting heart ❤️ and I smiled when you referred to your gardening pants as “britches”. My daughters laugh at me when I call them by that name. They say they have never heard anyone else call them that! 😂😉 Happy Saturday in the Garden
Love this video! Great ideas for using vintage things or thrift finds. I’m all about that! Plus great tips on nasturtiums... I am ordering seeds now and adopting your idea!
Hi Linda. Thank you again for your inspirational and enjoyable videos. I wanted to pass along a tip for keeping squirrels from digging up your plants. It's tool! I learned this from "Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy ". Robbie places a little tool fabric around her pots just on top of the soil and the squirrels hate that their little nails get caught up in it. She uses the dark green or even black so that it doesn't stand out. It's awesome!
Some great tips here. Thanks. You rock the utility pants ! I love to pick up metal items too. Look forward to seeing the candelabra project when finished.
Thanks for the tip on buying plastic items secondhand. I'm getting more conscious of these temporary items that wind up in landfills, so it's a nice idea to look for used, rather than buying new--especially if it's likely to get dirty in the garden.
