Betty Lubbert
“Bbbbbut I go to the garden to get out of doing dishes!” This is the fun gardening way to ‘do’ dishes, using an up-cycled kitchen sink. Sinks, with their sturdy construction and built-in drain hole are perfect as a garden container. All these sinks were posted by our Flea Market gardeners and offer the best of the best in fun sink gardens. Check it out…
Barbara Stanley found a dish drainer,…see what she did
Barbara Stanley’s dish drainer makes a charming ‘planter.’
Betty Lubbert’s colorful sink display
Betty Lubbert This is the whole display. I call it ‘Let’s make Lasagna!’
Carlene’s garden sink before
Carlene Blair
Carlene’s garden sink, after
Janet Brawner’s collected succulents in a dish drainer
Janet Brawner “Old wire dish basket, planted with hens and chicks and some of my favorite dishes.”
Jeanie Merritt’s quaint dish garden
Jeanie Merritt “Time to do the dishes!!!! A white and blue enamel pan filled with suds ( white allysum ) and blue and white odds and ends of dishes found at yard sales, 3 pieces of vintage silverware. Simple and fun!”
Jeanie Merritt’s Thyme in a garden
Jeannie Rhodes’s dish garden would look amazing in an old sink
Jeannie Rhodes “I saw this idea on FMG and fell in love with it so now this is sitting by my back door!”
Kathy Engel’s unique and rusty sink. LOOK at that rust patina!
Linda LoBianco’s sink mounted on an old door
Linda LoBianco’s door serves as a whimsical focal point up on a rise in her beautiful flower garden. She framed the door in a rustic frame and attached a vintage ceramic wall sink she can actually use when creating bouquets. In the garden are Sedum ‘Autumn Joy,’ center, and clockwise, yellow and white Yarrow, pink Coneflower, pink Phlox and Moss rose.
I found this old sink by a dumpster at a nursery that was going out of business. I called and asked if it was for sale and soon it was mine! The owners used it for display, but didn’t have room to take it.
Sadly, this sink stayed here for two years!
It sat, moved to our new home and eventually I incorporated into my potting bench redo project.
Once moved to its new spot, the old sink
I had fun outfitting this old sink with many of the ideas I found on Flea Market Gardening using terracotta pots on two shelves, a rusty rake head for a rack and an old Boraxo soap dispenser than reminds me of Grandpa. I found an antique crock to keep tools in.
After- My play kitchen and potting sink
Barbara Vengalli’s Antique double sink full of Basil……..Time to snip!
Vera Diller’s double sided sink
Vera Diller “This is my double sided sink you can’t hardly see from the flowers. My husband made a stand for it and we just placed the sink in the stand.”
Look at thrift shops, yard sales and junk yards. Check at Habitat for Humanity and architectural restoration shops. Make sure your friends know you are looking.
At the Barn junk shop, an amazing concrete sink is found
Shirley’s Shed Antiques Prairie sink and farm table
Debbie Clark found this double sink, ready to be planted
Nancy Butcher’s tub and sink combo
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These are so cute, thanks, i am searching for one and i know i will find it, now i have some great ideas.
I love it.