Recycling an old dustbin into a planter

My husband bought me a delphinium, a foxglove and a Lupin plant. 

Needing a sizable pot to plant them in, my eye traveled to the now unused dust bin (we now use a wheely bin) and being a Thrifty Girl and a family doing our Year If Thrift, money saving was important. 

Plus, just imagine how many of us have these through out the county? 

So I put mine to good use!

1. Gather together plants you want to pot up 

2. Take your unused dust bin. Give it a wash out.

3. Measure how high you want your planter all the way around your bin. 

Make a hole with an awl or a screwdriver to allow the hand saw to cut at the desired hight.

4. Using a hand saw, cut as straight a line around the rim of the bin as you can. 

5. Add a good quality potting composts and your chosen plants. And voila, you have a cost free and recycled planter.

Easter planter from a Pallet

As you will know, I'm veto familiar with making some thing out of nothing & my latest project had me making a flower planter from two old and no longer wanted, old pallet. 

Take two unused pallets. Turn one it on its side to allow you to adding wood to the bottom of what will be the three planters.

You will need a few tools to help you like a saw, scissors, staple gun, nails and crow bar as all as a hammer. 

With the pallet that will be taken apart, leaver the strips of wood with the crow bar and hammer out the old nails. 

The fit in to place to form the bottoms of the planter inserts.

Once all the planters have been formed, you can add strong plastic to the planter holes, thus to keep as much soil in as possible.

Now fill with soil.

Add flowers and enjoy all summer long!