You, my dear, are a day brightener for me. I will soon be eighty years old and have some health issues so I can no longer do as much creative gardening I want to do. I’ve shared your videos with all my friends, young and old, and I love your beautiful spirit. Thank you so much! Love you!
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
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
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.
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 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!
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
Love them all! Doesn't Stewart know better than to make fun of the Terminator gardening chick?! lol I too love to incorporate thrifty finds in the garden. I have my girls old wagon with thrifted galvanized pots planted with cascading stone crop, tulips and pansies at the moment, an old rusty hand water pump as art, a couple of metal chairs planted, a couple of thrifted bikes that I've painted white and added wire baskets to the front and back that I plant seasonally, birdhouses turned fairy houses. Happy gardening!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
RUclipsrs 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.
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 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.
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!
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
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!
LINDA, FIRST OF ALL I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE VIDEOS YOU HAVE GIVEN US DURING THE WINTER MONTHS THEY ARE OR I SHOULD SAY HAVE BEEN SO MUCH FUN!!!!!! THEY HAVE HELPED ME TO GET THROUGH THE WINTERTIME OF ROCHESTER NY,!!!!!!! I LOVE THRIFTING AND LOOKING FOR THE UNUSUAL IT IS SO MUCH FUN AND PRACTICAL, I WENT TODAY DID NOT FIND MUCH BUT I KNOW IT IS A TREASURE OUT THERE. LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU YOU SOON. THANK YOU!!!!!
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.
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!
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.
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. 😍🌳🌷
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 💚
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 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.
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 🧤
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
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!
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 love your videos! Thank you for all the great tips! I love to use spray paint for my thrift store finds! I found a wire make- up vanity chair once at a thrift store and took it home. It looked kinda ratty so I spray painted it black, now I use it to display a potted plant. I also spray paint old plastic planter pots. Happy Gardening everyone! 💓❤️🧡💛💚💕
I gosh you found so many cute items at the thrift store for the garden I couldn’t believe what you’ve done and some of them look so beautiful in your garden and the other ones are really handy things for the garden I need to start going and looking more for garden things at the secondhand store I have hardly ever seen anything but maybe I’m just not looking in the right place or I need to open my mind how I can repurpose purpose
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!
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!
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.
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! 🥰🙌🏻👍🏻🌺
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.
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 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!
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
First of all - the shirt!! It's perfect. I'm not sure I would qualify, but I'm getting there. My guy came to trim the big hedge, and I was planting two Green Mountain cones in pots, and he said "Another boxwood?" Yup😆 Can't have too many!. Second - Can't wait to see the candelabra. Plus, (bonus) Linda - no wonder your mouth won't work. Every day you have another video! You work too hard. Thanks a billion, btw. We love them.💚🌳
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.
I love thrifting for garden decor! Great video! I’d add one more tip- drill holes in any garden decor items that have the potential to hold water~~ (mosquitoes 😬). Or if a hole can’t be drilled(such as in glass items), keep mosquito bits (Bt) handy to sprinkle in the standing water so the little buggers can’t reproduce 😉😉 Loving your you tube channel!
This is the first time I have seen your videos and I loved it you are so creative . I really love plants and flowers I worked for one spring/summer and am hooked and love plants and flowers. Love thrift stores 😀 Blessings love and light. Washington State
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.
I love gravel! I created a few gravel patios!!! I bought last year a loooot, just miscalculated for my project . I ended up having 11 tons of gravel. I used a third of it but still have a lot for the nest projects.
😅😆 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!
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.
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 also just love this type of video , plus I already had some of these things I had purchased from thrift stores and you have given me some fantastic ideas!!! Thank you so much for all your videos!!!!
I LOVE these tips and tricks! You're teaching us how to open our eyes to new possibilities and recycle and reuse! AND I love how using old items can help some of our younger gardens look more aged and tenured. Thanks again, Linda!
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.
Couldn’t believe all the awesome things you found at the Goodwill and re-purposed for your own use I have just not been looking good enough at the Goodwill I guess. Or I’m not going to the right Goodwill I don’t know which hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy
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! :)
I love thrift stores. My best buy was a cast iron kitchen sink with drainboard that I got at the local Habitat for Humanity store for $25. My husband is going to build me a potting bench from it. Same trip so got a (gaudy) turquoise bathroom sink. I think it looks delightful nestled into a fern bed our back and filled with bright pink impatiens.
You, my dear, are a day brightener for me. I will soon be eighty years old and have some health issues so I can no longer do as much creative gardening I want to do. I’ve shared your videos with all my friends, young and old, and I love your beautiful spirit. Thank you so much! Love you!
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
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
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.
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 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!
Excellent idea!
Love it!!!
What a great idea!
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
Love them all! Doesn't Stewart know better than to make fun of the Terminator gardening chick?! lol I too love to incorporate thrifty finds in the garden. I have my girls old wagon with thrifted galvanized pots planted with cascading stone crop, tulips and pansies at the moment, an old rusty hand water pump as art, a couple of metal chairs planted, a couple of thrifted bikes that I've painted white and added wire baskets to the front and back that I plant seasonally, birdhouses turned fairy houses. Happy gardening!
Linda, you spur my kind of "winter dead imagination". Stewart may be teasing, but you are so creative and artistic!
Thrift store shopping is the bomb🌻
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!
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.
ABSOLUTELY love this type of video. I, too, enjoy repurposing found treasures! So much fun,and, they are one of a kind!
me too
My first time to see your program. Love. It. ,,,
YES Please!
Recycle ♻️
Reuse 💡
Repurpose! 🔁
What is a (wrong spelling) potashay? I’ve never heard that word. Pardon my ignorance!
No no no stone on the candelabra. A patina of some sort to enhance the details. Why cover it in stone?
Our thrift shops are popular but expensive. Prices are often similar to retail stores unfortunately. But I still love to thrift shop.
One of the most upscale & content packed trash to treasure videos ever!
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.
Welcome!
So many things can be be done with a little creativity! I love repurposing things I find along the road!
I just picked up a woven chair and a small bench on trash day!! Gotta recycle and up cycle!!
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.
I am obsessed with the chalice planter. I have to head to Goodwill now and hope for the best!
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.
Awesome, Linda. That gravel scoop made me jealous!!!! THAT was a fabulous find !!!!!
And those britches are cool too. Loved everything
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.
Hello, i was wondering if you had any luck with those rubber snakes?
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!
Score!!!
@@LindaVater 🥰❤️
You are a sweetheart. They are teasing you bc they care about you. Love ur channel. Blessings
RUclipsrs 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.
Me too. I’m not necessarily creative, but I can copy!😉
Just keep trying. I go to Goodwill and Salvation Army often. Sometimes I don't find anything and others I really score.
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.
How 🥰 lovely!
I love when you break the fourth wall (4:44) and ask Stewart to answer your question. that makes me happy.
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.
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!
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
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!
Carol Brooks: Try splashing hot sauce around your plants. It works for me!
LINDA, FIRST OF ALL I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE VIDEOS YOU HAVE GIVEN US DURING THE WINTER MONTHS THEY ARE OR I SHOULD SAY HAVE BEEN SO MUCH FUN!!!!!! THEY HAVE HELPED ME TO GET THROUGH THE WINTERTIME OF ROCHESTER NY,!!!!!!! I LOVE THRIFTING AND LOOKING FOR THE UNUSUAL IT IS SO MUCH FUN AND PRACTICAL, I WENT TODAY DID NOT FIND MUCH BUT I KNOW IT IS A TREASURE OUT THERE. LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU YOU SOON. THANK YOU!!!!!
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.
How cool!
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
I feel so honored!
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!
So true!
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.
Sleep in this morning!!
Linda,
I just came from the thrift store... ( found a lot of nice things...:) )
Came home and your video popped up.
Perfect ....
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. 😍🌳🌷
Thank you dear!
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 💚
What a great topic!
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. 🤷🏻♀️
Clever girl
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.
Yes! Loving the gardening tips and the Sarah Conner vibe for the garden😀🌿
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
This is so cool. I’m the same. Good lunch with it.
I keep picking up cool stuff for my garden and use it differently each year! My husband actually never called me a hoarder but I’m sure he thinks it!
@@brittanymcdonaldbarr1106 I'll bring the sandwiches! (Sorry, Brittany! I couldn't resist! 😁)
@@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.
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 🧤
Love how your creative mind works. Keep these coming!
I am so happy to have stumbled upon this video. Thank you so much to inspire me to update some old stuff into new.
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.
Smart👍👍
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
Thanks Linda, great tips. Love finding cool things at antique and thrift stores for all kind of fun uses!
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!
What an incredible idea! Thank you
I am so gonna copy that! You’re the best!
Love this! Really like the candle holder hooked over a fence or trellis idea.
I had that idea about 8 years ago. I had small mason jars which I used for candles and fastened them to my white lattice.
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.
Like those pants. Agree with you Linda, I try to avoid buying new plastic things. Great segment! 👍
I love your videos! Thank you for all the great tips! I love to use spray paint for my thrift store finds! I found a wire make- up vanity chair once at a thrift store and took it home. It looked kinda ratty so I spray painted it black, now I use it to display a potted plant. I also spray paint old plastic planter pots. Happy Gardening everyone! 💓❤️🧡💛💚💕
Really great ideas!!! I love the wire cloches and baskets, I have chickens this would work to keep them out of my pots.
I gosh you found so many cute items at the thrift store for the garden I couldn’t believe what you’ve done and some of them look so beautiful in your garden and the other ones are really handy things for the garden I need to start going and looking more for garden things at the secondhand store I have hardly ever seen anything but maybe I’m just not looking in the right place or I need to open my mind how I can repurpose purpose
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!
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!
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.
LOVE IT! Especially that rusty metal tray 🪴🪴🪴
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! 🥰🙌🏻👍🏻🌺
Welcome!!
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.
I’m so glad!
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!
Smart you!
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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!
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
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Britchrs is an old English word, still used in Yorkshire
First of all - the shirt!! It's perfect. I'm not sure I would qualify, but I'm getting there. My guy came to trim the big hedge, and I was planting two Green Mountain cones in pots, and he said "Another boxwood?" Yup😆 Can't have too many!. Second - Can't wait to see the candelabra. Plus, (bonus) Linda - no wonder your mouth won't work. Every day you have another video! You work too hard. Thanks a billion, btw. We love them.💚🌳
Thanks Sweet Pea!
Linda you crack me up because you remind me of ME!! I do the same thing! I love thrift store finds!! Funny, I get laughed at too!! :)
❤️ ❤️ ❤️. New subscriber, so glad to find someone else who repurposes non traditional garden items to make it unique.
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, you’re such a good teacher.
I love thrifting for garden decor! Great video! I’d add one more tip- drill holes in any garden decor items that have the potential to hold water~~ (mosquitoes 😬). Or if a hole can’t be drilled(such as in glass items), keep mosquito bits (Bt) handy to sprinkle in the standing water so the little buggers can’t reproduce 😉😉
Loving your you tube channel!
I have a couple of vintage style broken lamps that I love and plan on spay painting them stone, too.
This is the first time I have seen your videos and I loved it you are so creative . I really love plants and flowers I worked for one spring/summer and am hooked and love plants and flowers. Love thrift stores 😀
Blessings love and light.
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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.
I love all your ideas for thrifted finds in the garden.
Hey..Ms pretty Linda.. You are a ray of sunshine. Loved your thrift finds. Thank you. ❤🙏
Thanks dear!
I love gravel! I created a few gravel patios!!! I bought last year a loooot, just miscalculated for my project . I ended up having 11 tons of gravel. I used a third of it but still have a lot for the nest projects.
😅😆 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!
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.
Hurts to see you using that beautiful pan for gravel! Yuuch!
Ok. Ok. I will start looking at my thrift store for stuff!! I guess my Grandmother was right after all🤣❤️🥰
Grandmother's are always right.😁
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.
Love your ideas. Love going to the thrifty stores.
Thanks Linda, sometimes we all have trouble thinking outside the box.
Linda, I love using thrift store finds in the garden. You supplied some great new ideas! Thanks.
Great video. Useful. To the point. No waffling.
You are creative that’s why gardening is a art!
I also just love this type of video , plus I already had some of these things I had purchased from thrift stores and you have given me some fantastic ideas!!! Thank you so much for all your videos!!!!
Excellent!
Love the ideas, the finds and purposes. You re my winter soothing voice person and now a loving my planet person too. Were all in it😍👌
Love ❤️ your tips I have several items in my shed that I will be repurposing this spring.
Hahah your "but wait, if you subscribe now" made me laugh 💕💕💕 love these tips
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Oh Stewart, so good of you to zoom in on the name of the jar! 😂 Lovely video and great ideas, plus some fun content. Winner!! xxx
He does a great job☺️
I love that you avoid new plastic things!
I LOVE these tips and tricks! You're teaching us how to open our eyes to new possibilities and recycle and reuse! AND I love how using old items can help some of our younger gardens look more aged and tenured. Thanks again, Linda!
You bet!
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.
Wow!! You are creative. And i love that wall your seating on. Its very nicely made. TY for your video
Couldn’t believe all the awesome things you found at the Goodwill and re-purposed for your own use I have just not been looking good enough at the Goodwill I guess. Or I’m not going to the right Goodwill I don’t know which hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy
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! :)
Love all theses uses for things we might find secondhand. I am behind on watching videos so. I am binge watching yours❤️❤️❤️
I love thrift stores. My best buy was a cast iron kitchen sink with drainboard that I got at the local Habitat for Humanity store for $25. My husband is going to build me a potting bench from it.
Same trip so got a (gaudy) turquoise bathroom sink.
I think it looks delightful nestled into a fern bed our back and filled with bright pink impatiens.
Score!!!