Fun With Found Things

My pal AJ came over for a visit on Friday evening and we had a fun 24 hours.

On Saturday morning we tackled a strawberry planter that Little Urchin recently found amongst the treasures put out for Spring Clean-Up garbage collection in our neighbourhood.

Tidy potting

One lip had been broken off and threatened to disgorge dirt everywhere – probably why it had been tossed out. We patched it with a bit of landscape fabric with tape to hold it in place until the dirt fill could take over the job. Then we turned that part towards the fence. Radically, we decided on trailing annuals rather than strawberries. We were a bit short of plants, but I have my eye on some trailing snapdragons to complete the job. 

While we were at it, we prepared planters for sweet peas and a cherry tomato. We also planted some Money Plant seeds AJ bought at a local plant sale for 25 cents. Lunaria annua are usually grown for their translucent ’silver dollar’ like seed pods as a dried flower.  They bloom with lightly scented purple or white flowers which slowly transform into seed pods. It is also known as “Honesty”, Satin Flower and Moon Wort.

Old vinyl shower curtains are wonderful for projects like this. The one seen preserving our potting soil and keeping the deck clean in this photo is the same one my kids recently used to drag branches and other debris down from our back yard.

They are also a really superior painting tarp, since they lie tight to the wall, don’t tear easily or get squirreled up when you walk across them.