Bird Feeder Weblog » green gardening http://birdfeederweblog.com Offering infromation on Bird Watching and Gardening Tips! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:47:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://storeblogs.com?v=3.3.1 Recycled Chair Planter – Container Gardening http://birdfeederweblog.com/2010/07/13/recycled-chair-planter-container-gardening http://birdfeederweblog.com/2010/07/13/recycled-chair-planter-container-gardening#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:52:19 +0000 gardenaccentheaven http://birdfeederweblog.com/?p=906 Continue reading →]]> We had a chair that the bottom strapping had worn out and broken through. In our town you just can not put a chair out next to your trash can and have it picked up. You have to take it to the transfer station and throw it into a inter-modal container which is then taken by truck to the railroad yard and put on the daily unit garbage train and taken to the landfill. The minimum fee for the transfer station is $20.00. Throwing this chair out was not worth $20.00 that was for sure.

Need is the mother of invention and we needed to find something to do with this old patio chair. Bob had the idea of turning it into a planter. We found a pot that would fit inside the chair frame. Bob had a some small cut off pieces of  2″x4″ treated lumber from building the fence. These where put on the ground and the pot set on top of them. Linda filled the pot with some gravel in the bottom for drainage and a mixture of potting soil and 1/3 compost, then planted the pot with some flowers We now had a new garden accent for the cost of a new pot! The cost of the pot was a lot less then the $20.00 fee at the transfer station.

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