Comments on: How to plant a rusty wheelbarrow for the garden https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/ Real people, real gardens, real projects Tue, 06 Mar 2018 05:53:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Teresa H https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-19143 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 05:53:50 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-19143 I just read how you came about the discarded wheel barrow from Coalinga,Ca. I was born and raised there. How quaint is that. I love your ideas on gardening and looking into getting a whirl barrow and putting plants in it.

]]> By: Lawnrick Lewis https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-19040 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:13:24 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-19040 What a way to actually turn an old rusty thing into such a desirable piece .Most times I found myself buying the kind of wheelbarrow I want instead of taking up a used one for the planting purposes .
But now am thinking of going from door to door asking my neighbors whether they have a used up beat up Jackson single wheel wheelbarrow that I can put up to the task .
Most times I prefer the Gorilla poly dump cart because of the stability essence and the amount of load it can actually handle (1200lb) .
But I’ll try match up with the Jackson just like you and I’ll update you on how it looks .
Am sure my wife will be thrilled to have one of those since she likes such creativity ??

]]> By: flo murry https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-17928 Thu, 21 Apr 2016 01:50:54 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-17928 In reply to Jeanne Sammmons.

Don’t laugh!! One day my husband and I were cleaning yards, following a nasty winter, when we parked an old, terribly dilapidated wheelbarrow in the yard by the alley. We came in for lunch and when we went back, the wheelbarrow was gone. It was an old one that MID (irrigation company) had discarded. It was covered with dried cement and weighed as much as a Volkswagen. But hey—– people will steal anything!

]]> By: Margo https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-17666 Sun, 31 Jan 2016 20:56:19 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-17666 In reply to Sue Langley.

Thank you. I like both of those suggestions.

]]> By: Sue Langley https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-17642 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:11:12 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-17642 In reply to Margo.

If you don’t want drainage holes, fill the wheelbarrow with a few inches of gravel, 4 or 5 then watch your watering. Sinking pots into soil works, or just add soil on top of the gravel and plant as usual.

]]> By: Margo https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-17641 Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:57:40 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-17641 I recently purchased an antique wheelbarrow and really want to fill it with beautiful flowers, but just don’t want to drill holes in it for drainage. Any suggestions besides just setting potted plants in it?

]]> By: Donna Wheeler https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-17555 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:39:41 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-17555 My mom and I both came into old wheelbarrows last summer. We found one at an old barn on her property and one at an estate sale. I planted mine with sweet potato vine and it was beautiful until the freeze. Hers we planted with pansies since it was October and they were good until it snowed in December!

]]> By: bevmacleod@seasidehighspeed.com https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-14983 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 02:39:43 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-14983 I enjoyed your gardening blog very much . Often it is the most unusual containers that will be remarkable as planters and the ramdom mixture of flowers will provide a stunning splash of colour .

]]> By: emilybelle99 https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-11151 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:52:51 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-11151 I read somewhere to put used coffee grounds over the petunias as an everyday fertilizer. My wave petunias are right outside my kitchen door, so (ALMOST) every day I dump the grounds into the remaining cooled coffee and add water, swish and pour over the petunias. They bloom bright and beoooootiful. Fast, frugal and easy. 🙂

]]> By: Susan Hughes https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-11076 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:17:54 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-11076 Wave petunias are your answer. They take care of themselves. No pinching or deadheading. Just rolled out my fathers old rusty wheelbarrow the other day. All rusty and ready to be planted. Funny, my husband would have used it for target practice if I had let him.

]]> By: Jamie https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-950 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 22:52:42 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-950 I found one exactly like this on trash night in my neighborhood one night. Put the top down on my convertible and took it home! Haven’t planted it yet.

]]> By: Tawra@CoolGardenIdeas https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-851 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:59:46 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-851 OH I just love wheelbarrows!!
Mine’s completely covered with potatoes and sweet potato vine. I am LOVING it!!!

I’ve planted this thing twice and KS. and each year it just burned up. Now in Colorado it LOVES it!!!

]]> By: Sue Langley https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-490 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 13:59:08 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-490 In reply to the blonde gardener.

Thanks, Brenda…I peeked in at your blog…Good Grief! I see the grasshopper situation. Wow,…sometimes Mother nature is not nice… Cute blog….I’d like to look in at it more as you go…

Thanks for nominating the blog,…one thing I regret about now working full time, plus all my other activities is that I don’t have much time to write my own garden blog and no time to read my favorite blogs and touch base with my blogging friends… something had to give, I guess. ~~ Sue

]]> By: the blonde gardener https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-489 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 09:30:58 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-489 Hi! Love the garden blog! ,
I have been reading your blog for quite sometime and enjoy it very much. I have recently started a blog myself and I just wanted to let you know I nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award. this award promotes garden blogs and encourages readership among blogs. If you want to accept, take a look at my post @ http://theblondegardener.com.
Thanks, Brenda

]]> By: Joan Dahl https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-488 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:38:24 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-488 I have always loved Petunia’s, I pinch off the dead blooms, and they just keep coming back. When they get real leggy u can cut the back and they will rebloom. I feed them with miracle grow.

]]> By: Jeanne Sammmons https://fleamarketgardening.org/2012/07/25/how-to-plant-a-rusty-wheelbarrow-for-the-garden/#comment-487 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:32:16 +0000 http://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=1330#comment-487 I’m lovin’ it, too! & that container w/Rum Punch Coreopsis is gorgeous! Sure glad that no one stole that wheelbarrow out of the back of your truck! ~~giggle

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