Recycling
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Planted by: Jennifer Tidwell
Date: Friday December 4, 2009
Planted in: Other
One thing gardeners are really good at is recycling. We use cardboard and newspaper as weed blocker, steal discarded yard waste from the curb to put in our compost piles, buy plants bound for the dumpster because they were “just $1,” and turn almost any old piece of junk into “garden art.”
Along those lines, I’m begging people for old broken up concrete to make paths in my gardens. I believe the popular term for it is “urbanite.” I’ve even gotten so desperate that I’ve posted a plea for broken concrete on my personal Facebook page. I have a family member doing some work on a parking lot, which will require him to break up the existing concrete and dump it somewhere. My yard is just fine, thank you very much.
I’ve seen some really nice paths made from broken concrete pieces, and I have a pretty large area to fill in. I hope by this time next year I’ll be able to post some pictures of my new path and seating area.
What unusual materials have you recycled and put to use in your gardens?
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3 Comments
I love recycled stuff too! I wish I was in the demo business just for all the cool stuff you can get when you tear a building down. My dad built his shop completely with recycled I-beams that he got from tearing down metal buildings.
I never get lucky enough to get anything from a torn down building!
Comment by Jennifer Tidwell on December 4th, 2009 @
12:35 pm
You are an urbanite and what you do is urbanated. I am very urbanated.
jim
Comment by Jim Groble on December 6th, 2009 @
5:26 pm
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Here in South Texas, we call broken concrete “native rocks”. We don’t have any real native rock here.
I saw a beautiful retaining wall done of broken concrete. It was planted in succulents, and was really pretty. Also, I would plant a little groundcover that is pretty tough between the rocks. Something like dwarf mondo grass, or creeping Jenny would look really nice.
Everything we do seems to be recycling. My husband built 3 arbors from corral board that we took off a client’s patio cover. We built a shade house from old cypress siding boards. That cypress lasts and lasts. Our outdoor kitchen has a brick floor of bricks we got from a burned building. Our shower in the back yard is sheltered by pretty screen doors that we use to trellis butterfly vine, for privacy. I love recycled stuff!