Tips for setting up a garden on a low budget

Below you will find many examples of how you can start a garden by reusing materials.

Many examples show how you can use or repurpose waste such as bottles, tyres or pipes.

Making easy garden beds

Using plastic bottles to grow plants

Make a garden fence with plastic bottles which double as planters

From: Useful Plastic bottle garden Projects you Can Make Easy At The Home #4.

 

Plastic bottle as water sprinkler

From: Useful Plastic bottle garden Projects you Can Make Easy At The Home #12.

 

How to make your own vertical garden with plastic bottles

Guide to set up the vertical garden, suitable plants and maintenance.

 

Useful Plastic Bottle Garden Projects You Can Make Easy At The Home

From: 12 Easy and practical ideas for re purposing plastic bottles.

 

Other easy ideas to grow plants

Don’t throw away cardboard tubes

These toilet paper tubes can be used as seedling planters and are if they are made of cardboard, the seedlings can be easily removed when big enough and the tube composted.

 

Use PVC pipes to build vertical planter

From: 23 Insanely Clever Ideas on Low Budget #9.

 

Repurpose a shoe organiser as a vertical planter

From: 23 Insanely Clever Ideas on Low Budget #12.

 

Use upside down nursery trays to stop pets and animals eating your seedlings

From: 23 Insanely Clever Ideas on Low Budget #13.

 

Grow tomato plants straight out of the bag of soil

From: Insanely Clever Ideas on Low Budget #14.

 

A variety of trellises that can be made at home

From: 19 Successful ways to Building DIY trellis for veggies and Fruits.

 

Growing tomatoes upside down 

Growing tomatoes upside down can greatly increase the amount of tomatoes in a limited space.

From: Insanely Clever Ideas on Low Budget #15

 

 

Use pallet to plant your seedings

Staple garden cloth to the other side of a pallet, fill the pallet with soil and plant your seedlings.