5 Dollar Store Garden Hacks That Will Save you Hundreds! 🌺 🍃🌼 (Plus one bonus hack!)

I have another use for the wire basket. I put it inside a 5 gallon bucket, then shovel some compost into it, then shake it up and down inside the bucket to sift the compost. All the bigger pieces and sticks stay in the basket and the fine soil goes into the bucket.

That coco liner mulch is such a great idea! And the leftover circles you cut out are perfect for covering the drain holes on my bigger pots so the soil doesn't fall out. Double win!!

even cheaper than the cups are toilet paper rolls after you use the toilet paper. Start saving them now till the next growing season. You already paid for them :)

Dollar store hack videos don't have anything for me so I kept ignoring this one when it kept popping up in my feed. I finally decided to click it and it actually has some that I can use. It was worth the watch.

I love how gracefully you explain things and how beautiful your way of expression is. It was a pleasure to watch.

To reduce/avoid soil loss from the holes at the bottom of flowerpots, I cut old clothes into small pieces, lay them inside the pot, and then add soil. This way, I reuse old fabric and keep the bottom of the pot clean. It works for pots with holes of any size.

The wire baskets are also good to bury about 90% in the ground, put shredded cardboard in bottom, worms on top of that, than cover with food scraps. The worms wil give you free castings. When the food scraps get low, just add more. Constant fertilizer.

Those wire trash cans are something I use but epic gardening sells them for so much money. Another thing I like to use from Dollar Tree is there mesh laundry bags… I put them over my tomato cages and pepper cages.

The mesh garbage can is genius. I'm going shopping tomorrow for sure

I use the baskets as a compost bin in each bed. I have 5 4X12 beds and so I put 2 baskets per bed. The worms love it so much! As I fill my kitchen bin, I dump it in 1 basket then the next bin would go into the next basket and so on. I don't have room for compost bins.

If you put a ping pong ball on the end of a bamboo stick( thin), push stick into ball and seal it on with silicone. Put it in your dry ohya(?) before you put it together and make sure it sticks out of your fill tube to act as a float to let you know when you are running low on water! Make a line on the stick when it is empty and another line on the stick when you fill it with water! The ball will allow it to float up and down depending on the amount of water in your jug! Just a thought! Dollar stores have the bamboo plant sticks( won't rot in water like wood)and the ping pong balls( or you could use a small, red and white fishing bobber instead)!

You could also use wire metal coat hangers (cut them with wire cutters) bend them and use them as garden staples to hold your wire trash baskets in place❤.

these are really smart hacks! I wanted to share that I save the green plastic strawberry baskets to protect my sunflower seeds when I direct sow them, so the birds don't dig them up and eat them.

The baskets would be a good idea for strawberry plants to prevent the birds from eating them 🤔🤔

I use egg cartons to start my plants. Holds the water and it’s free and when done we burn the cartons in the woodstove 💜

I have also used the garbage cans for the same thing as you. They also work nicely for drying out potatoes and onions in the fall. I save used coffee/soda cups to plant my tomatoes /peppers in. I like the idea of the those coco liners to use around plants and I may try a few of those. I save the larger water bottles/soda bottles, with the bottoms cut off for cloches and then when not needed for a cloch I turn them upside down and partically bury bury them to add water to. There is so many things that are recyclable that can be repurposed for garden use. I wish I could avoid the plastics but, it's almost impossible these days.

Toilet paper center supports work well for starter plants.

On the tomato cage’s, never lay them down on their sides. I had an elderly cat walk into one and poked his eye 😢. What I do is keep them in the ground and put an empty plastic planter in it and place my gardening tools inside when I’m working in the garden. It keeps my tools up off the ground and nearby. I’m always looking for good ideas and I love what you’ve done with yours.

I like the upside down potato frames. A solar light on the top would be pretty too.

If you have gopher problems, you can bury the mesh basket mostly in the ground to protect the roots.