The Best Man and I are old hands at repurposing. We are also old hands at hoarding. Any trip to our local tip often see's some useful items return home with us.
And thats how we ended up with two old wooden cots. One with painted slats and the other with small round dowels for the sides. They just hung around here for a while being used for kids cubby's and make-believe animal pens. When I needed something to show me which potatoes were in which row in our new garden, I rummaged through our pile of "useful items" (a bit like the 'useful box' from Playschool only bigger!) and re-discovered them!
Worked really well and I've since used them for other rows of veggies too.
The cot with the dowels was deconstructed to give me some thin poles so I could fit the smaller size poly pipe onto it and cover our first crop of currants from the birds. There's also the beginning of another net tunnel over the strawberries - we ran out of poly pipe and I just can't bring myself to buy some more when I could just go to the tip and....!
And then today as I was wondering what to grow the new cucumber plants over, I had the idea of using the leftover cot frame with some wire mesh over it. All in all I'm quite pleased with the results.
I love re-using things in a creative way and always feel excited when I can come up with a new and funky idea for something that has served it's purpose in it's previous life but would now be considered useless. I'm sure there are a lot of folks out there that feel the same?
Love tip shops and I think it should be a crime for a city not to have one. (Looking at you Launceston City Council!)
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, yes! I get so excited if I can repurpose something! Have you seen the post by Dani at Ecofootprint South Africa this week. Fantastic stuff on there. I'm not very inventive but I love it when junk becomes our treasures!
ReplyDeleteTanya, I couldn't agree more about the Launceston city council. It's a disgrace in this day and age. A visit to Eco Salv used to be a romantic trip for my husband and me.
ReplyDeleteI love tip shops too Tanya and Deb, but our little country town tip doesn't have a shop, it just has a very friendly 'blind' caretaker and sometimes things just wander home with us in the trailer!! Which I think is how it should be - one mans trash etc etc !
ReplyDeleteLinda, I've just had a look at Dani's post and am quite taken with the washing machine light shade!! My brain is ticking with possibilities...
great ideas, especially the dowels in the ground to hold up the pipe net frame. Your garden is looking great!
ReplyDeleteI love this phrase: "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without." Its a motto that I always found satisfying. It seems like you find it that way too! Very clever on all your re-purposing. Functional and thrifty, unique. I love it.
ReplyDeletevery clever Ev! :) And the vege garden is looking great!!
ReplyDeleteI have a great hard garbage and tip shop salvage gene too!
ReplyDeleteIt so satisfying reusing old unwanted stuff!
Absolutely agree! I have fond memories of us kids piling in the car with Mum & Dad going off to the tip for the great hunt. Always bringing things home, so sad that we can't do that now.
ReplyDeleteYour garden looks so lush and healthy :)