Let’s pick a project and do it! In July!

Many of us have a file full of garden ideas or have wanted to do a project they’ve seen here on our page. Look through your file or in our albums and pick one you can do ALL this month… It’s a challenge!

Last year more than 60 FUN garden projects were done!

How to:

#1 Choose any project you’ve wanted to do.

#2 Decide to do it now and post your intentions here in a comment! (Your name and project will be added to this page.)

Then…. Two (2) Photos

#3 Sometime THIS month, post a “how to” photo of the materials you’re using.

#4 Sometime THIS month, post a photo of your finished project!

Label all your photos “July Project Challenge”

Your photos will be included in a special Photo Album and could be included in an article on our companion Flea Market Gardening website. Junkin` in July!

Sooo, first step: Write a post on our Wall OR in the comments here, tell us your project and if on the Facebook page include the words, “July Project Challenge”

OK, I’m off to look through my idea file! ~~ Sue

My last year’s project!

Sue Langley’s succulent chicken feeder.  “This chicken feeder is three feet tall! I filled it with 6 empty recyclable 1-gallon containers to displace space and added soil to the brim.  Then planted inside and all around the outside in the ground.  The marauding turkeys ate the ones in the ground, but everything else has thrived over the last year! Fun!”

Who’s joining and what they’re doing:  

(State your name and what your project is in a comment here, OR on our Facebook page. )

Tara Meeks  Turn my bird feeder into a water fountain for my hummingbirds

Kandy Stamborski do something with all the crystal i have been stock piling. Glass totems, flowers

Barb Buckley‎  Painted chair

Beth Knight  Make a mosaic Terra cotta pot out of broken pottery pieces

Pamela Bailey  Trellis for my roses using discarded bi-fold closet doors

Nancy Rhoads Tea kettle wind chimes/hanging planter

Diana Folsom  Make a plant holder out of an old child’s car

Mariner Tutavaha Mosaic a female torso mannequin for the garden

Tina Sanchez My July project is to paint a dining table, chairs and a dresser

Deanna Parsons Flowers from dishes and a patio table from pallets

Jill Beniak Dress up my potting table

Elaine Laster  Outdoor shower

Nell Steltzer Barnwood Bloom in memory of Jeanne Sammons

Tammy Sisler  Flower pot fun

Karen Kleinberg Relocating some hosta plants and day lilies after losing 2 trees.

Donna Slack Working on a pond and getting beds ready for a garden tour

Caroline Minielly-Ullrich setting posts in concrete for a greenhouse made from old windows and doors

Hippie Golucky .Going to build a fence and arbor out of branches cut & saved from tree damage.

Margie Ann  #1 make a 4th of July/patriotic vignette on and by my shed wall. #2 make a Cobalt blue glass garden totem #3 make a red glass garden totem.#4 make a couple glass garden flowers using glass plates/dishes.

Margaret Diggs Finishing the checken/gardening shed and decorating it.

Judy Enzmann Painting my own bottles for garden color.

Deborah Parks This blue glass garden sculpture

Recycled by Skattur  Fairy garden with a large swan planter

Mary Callaghan window project

Sue Jordan Fairy pot houses

Deborah Malouf‎ Recycled brick walkway project

Kim Trudo Old hardware thingy for the garden

Debbie Preston‎ Old wheelbarrow redo

Stephie McCarthy Red, white and blue calico bunting

Tina Sanchez My July project is to paint a dining table, chairs and a dresser

Deanna Parsons Flowers from dishes and a patio table from pallets

Jamie Peterson Vintage garden bike

Debbie O. Old ladder sign

Laurie Wehr A bench from a headboard/footboar

Donna F Wheeler A succulent garden using antique cinder blocks salvaged from a demolished house

Betty Lubbert Let’s Take a Bike Ride….Plant my three wheel rusty bike. Looking for a basket for the front

Betty Lubbert “Are you my Type”. Plant succulent garden in the vintage typewriter that was used by my children’s great aunt Elinor

Jane Rush A garden angel. Glass or wood and metal

Julia Dickey Make 2 stools using tractor seats that my sister gave me

Terry Barnhart I am collecting for a dinosaur “fairy” garden. And a small fountain.

Winona Spinks Create a glass totem. I’ve been collecting crystal & glass lamp parts

Mary Drees-Wentz Making some solar lights out of recycled glass light globes.

Stephie McCarthy Red, white and blue calico bunting

Donna Howard I am going to redo a bird cage with paint, candles, and fairy lights for my porch.

Rebecca Judd I will be planting succulents in an old crusty can

Natalie McPherson I’m going to build a fountain using an old galvanized wash tub and a hand pump.

Susan Kauffman I am making metal signs with garden quotes on them

Sydney Minor  Hideous side yard redo

Mary Sue Hale New vignette in my butterfly garden

Michelle Roznowski Succulent tea table

Canan Oguz-Brown  Water garden with a little fountain

Nancy Austin Finish my family stepping stones project

Glenda Callahan My project is a deck for our new pool, then I can put out all my junkin’ goodies.

Janice W Kannard Garden ladder plant stand

Penny Piatt Wreath heads

Becky Norris Patio table mosaic with stained glass and mirror

Connie Macy I’m going to make a farm yard garden w a barn and silo in an old wheel barrow

Linda Heyden I’m shopping yard sales to find a bicycle I can paint and put in the garden with a basket of flowers.

Julie Stava Garden wheelbarrow with succulents

Constance Ann McAlpin  #1 Garden flower. #2 Repaint a garden cart. #3 another little addition to the garden pathways.

Roberta Luke Add character to a small garden shed

Joan Heffley  Puppy proof flower bed using an old wash tub

Joan Heffley #2 project-my first ever totem that is puppy proof

Terry Roscoe  Garden angel project.

Linda Born Redoing a miniature garden

Annette Olson‎  Garden totems with grandkid’s names

Tammy Make an upright pallet planter for the grandkids

Barb Cyphert Make a hanging, solar, pouring pitcher

Deb Newton Solar globe for my garden

April Ritter Making a sidewalk sign out of a baby crib.

Vicki Mosaic a bowling ball

Carol Make a bottle tree with a 4 x 4 post and bolts

Sharon Malenke My project is my garden shed. Painting the inside and decorate it

Cindy Schroeder  Make a tipsy garden using blue graniteware and mosaic a wheel rim and plant and circus truck planted with succulents

April Walker Transform an old worn out boring deck

Tenaya Lord planting the bed and making the front on to a water feature for a mid fifties Willies Jeep

Lavonne Engbrecht Paint a bicycle and add baskets for flowers for my garden

Pamela jacobs create an outdoor outdoor seating area around a fire pit

Donna Allgaier-Lamberti My project is to grow a colorful garden in our old rusty woodstove

Kimberly Williams Plant a garden herb garden and hanging chandelier solar lights

Brenda H.  Garden art mushrooms

Kim Renovating my garden shed with old magazines and paint.

Sue Norton Edge the walk to my garden shed with sand, rocks and rusty gears

Karen Kleinberg Relocating some hosta plants and day lilies after losing 2 trees.

Donna Slack Working on a pond and getting beds ready for a garden tour

Caroline Minielly-Ullrich setting posts in concrete for a greenhouse made from old windows and doors

Hippie Golucky Going to build a fence and arbor out of branches cut & saved from tree damage.

Margie Ann  #1 make a 4th of July/patriotic vignette on and by my shed wall. #2 make a Cobalt blue glass garden totem #3 make a red glass garden totem.#4 make a couple glass garden flowers using glass plates/dishes.

Margaret Diggs Finishing the checken/gardening shed and decorating it.

Judy Enzmann Painting my own bottles for garden color.

Deborah Parks This blue glass garden sculpture

Recycled by Skattur  Fairy garden with a large swan planter

Mary Callaghan window project

Susan Latzke Using a old fan blade to make a flower

Debbie Newton  Solar globe from broken ceiling fan

Deanna Parsons Flowers from dishes and a patio table from pallets

Diane Wolcott Pallet privacy screen

Jill Cooper  Decorated posts

Jessie Sam My July Project challenge- # 1-Paint my iron chair in the front yellow. 2. Build a scene for an entertainment center. Paint my old radio, used pallets to build a flat form to put old swing on and plant flowers around it. Paint my shed to make a cottage look. #3 Paint and old door for a vignette. #4 Finishing putting down mulch. Transporting roses to the front bed. Making a sign.

Linda Gladman July Project Challenge #1 – Backyard eyesore area cleaned up.#2 – Water globe tree

Cissy O’Shea Turning an old little wood trunk into a bathroom cabinet

Debbie Preston My July project challenge…Plant an old wheelbarrow to add to my junky garden spot.

Tina Sanchez My July project is to paint a dining table, chairs and a dresser

Vadarae Gohlke We’ll be replanting garden

Monica Kulesa Ornate metal piece recycle

Roxanne Austin Working on a dish garden in my garden cart