How To Use Thrift Store Finds in The Garden

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  • @jeannelange4820
    @jeannelange4820 4 дні тому

    You, my dear, are a day brightener for me. I will soon be eighty years old and have some health issues so I can no longer do as much creative gardening I want to do. I’ve shared your videos with all my friends, young and old, and I love your beautiful spirit. Thank you so much! Love you!

  • @teraanaam
    @teraanaam 3 роки тому +4

    Another NUT like me, always thinking creatively ! Once a teacher, always a teacher ! Love it, I feel I am not alone ! Keep creating, keep the dump clean !!!!!

  • @melshark13
    @melshark13 3 роки тому +1

    I just stumbled upon your channel. Absoltely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your eco-friendly soul. I too love to upcycle EVERYTHING. I LOVE "trash" to treasure using the term (trash) lightly. Most things people toss - usually have so much life left and can always be upcycled into something beautiful, and useful. I really enjoy to re-use, recycle, upcycle, multi purpose items. Thift stores, consignment, flea market, garage, yard, and estate sales = THE BEST! We all can help do our part, and stop buying new. (Some items must be new. Non negotiable = under wear, bras) 😁 We need to stop being a 'throw away' society. Thank you for taking time to share your wonderful videos with all of us. Sending hugs, beach vibes, and sunshine- from the Texas Gulf Coast 🤗🏝🌅 Mel

  • @kelliez9991
    @kelliez9991 3 роки тому +4

    Our thrift shops are popular but expensive. Prices are often similar to retail stores unfortunately. But I still love to thrift shop.

  • @fritula6200
    @fritula6200 3 роки тому +1

    Linda Vater what a creative detective......you know how to think ahead, and create in your mind something that other haven't got that gift. Love your determination. And you know how to recycle everything. Again rare gift.

  • @yourpathmatters
    @yourpathmatters Рік тому +1

    What a great topic!

  • @alisonsneed3707
    @alisonsneed3707 3 роки тому +2

    One of the most upscale & content packed trash to treasure videos ever!

  • @DixieGirl9876
    @DixieGirl9876 3 роки тому +1

    Love them all! Doesn't Stewart know better than to make fun of the Terminator gardening chick?! lol I too love to incorporate thrifty finds in the garden. I have my girls old wagon with thrifted galvanized pots planted with cascading stone crop, tulips and pansies at the moment, an old rusty hand water pump as art, a couple of metal chairs planted, a couple of thrifted bikes that I've painted white and added wire baskets to the front and back that I plant seasonally, birdhouses turned fairy houses. Happy gardening!

  • @joanshute3384
    @joanshute3384 3 роки тому +3

    Oh Lindavi Love, Love, Love Shopping Thrift store and garage sales. Thank you for all your tips. So until next time God Bless you and Stewart and have a Blessed day and Stay Safe my dear Friends.

  • @debraglass6054
    @debraglass6054 3 роки тому +2

    Hi Linda, Debra from Memphis here, girl you are a woman after my own heart. Not everyone has a eye for these great thrift stores recreation,I am new to your channel, but belive you me I will be looking forward to your great ideas in the future be blessed.

  • @gaylabarre2736
    @gaylabarre2736 3 роки тому +11

    I love that you encourage us to shop around for creative garden items. You give us great cost savings ideas and resources. Gardening can get very expensive as you know so inexpensive solutions is a great gift to all of us. I watch other garden influencers and they have good ideas but most of them are pushing products and seem to have deep pockets when putting together garden projects. Thanks Linda for making us feel like no matter what your budget you can produce a productive and beautiful garden.

    • @LindaVater
      @LindaVater  3 роки тому +4

      You are so right. Gardening can be so expensive. Even if you have the money though, I think it is so worthwhile to try to reuse things that already exist. Plus I do love the patina of all things. As long as we are careful not to make it look junky and to use things in a intentional stylish way, I think it’s a brilliant solution

  • @pattymiller6696
    @pattymiller6696 3 роки тому +56

    I bought the small wire garbage cans from the Dollar Tree and put over my plants that the rabbits and squirrels were trying to eat. Worked great and cheap! I love all your videos!

  • @marcusseidel6824
    @marcusseidel6824 3 роки тому +2

    Linda,
    I just came from the thrift store... ( found a lot of nice things...:) )
    Came home and your video popped up.
    Perfect ....

  • @carolking6355
    @carolking6355 3 роки тому +1

    I love your channel. Thank you. I can no longer garden but you are giving me ideas for my gardener. I am also having a small conservatory added to my house so I can sit in winter sun. I need lots of ideas for plants to pack it full for next winter. I get so excited at the thought. Thank goodness you don’t do mosaic. I have just watched a garden full of it. It is not a plant. A birdbath and sun dial I have but what a garden is , is plants.

  • @lioness5953
    @lioness5953 3 роки тому +2

    You are a sweetheart. They are teasing you bc they care about you. Love ur channel. Blessings

  • @thomaswiegand7348
    @thomaswiegand7348 3 роки тому +105

    ABSOLUTELY love this type of video. I, too, enjoy repurposing found treasures! So much fun,and, they are one of a kind!

    • @crystalann32
      @crystalann32 3 роки тому +4

      me too

    • @jorenegardner1390
      @jorenegardner1390 3 роки тому +3

      My first time to see your program. Love. It. ,,,

    • @patriciasandoval7048
      @patriciasandoval7048 3 роки тому +3

      YES Please!
      Recycle ♻️
      Reuse 💡
      Repurpose! 🔁

    • @danahyatt5760
      @danahyatt5760 3 роки тому +4

      What is a (wrong spelling) potashay? I’ve never heard that word. Pardon my ignorance!

    • @cheekypiper512
      @cheekypiper512 3 роки тому

      No no no stone on the candelabra. A patina of some sort to enhance the details. Why cover it in stone?

  • @alice_rabbit8345
    @alice_rabbit8345 3 роки тому +10

    I just picked up a woven chair and a small bench on trash day!! Gotta recycle and up cycle!!

  • @shey2444
    @shey2444 3 роки тому +1

    Great video. Useful. To the point. No waffling.

  • @dianegao9176
    @dianegao9176 3 роки тому

    I love your ideas of using candlesticks in the garden which I always passed up. You have good eye. The fist non-essential store I will go is the Thrift store when it's reopened.

  • @kathiparshall8094
    @kathiparshall8094 3 роки тому +34

    I've been getting items for the garden from thrift stores for years! I love seeing how you use some of the things that I pass up. Now I will look at them with a new light. Thanks

  • @bagpipes978
    @bagpipes978 3 роки тому +2

    Love your creativity and enthusiasm! Your family can tease you mercilessly all they want but you know they actually respect and admire your brilliant ideas and thriftiness! You've inspired me! Thank you!

  • @cynthiajones823
    @cynthiajones823 3 роки тому +1

    I love your show!!!! It's 2:36 a.m. and I just can't seem to stop viewing all the goodies you share with us. Thanks for providing great ideas for those of us who LOVE to shop in thrift stores.

  • @lauraschreuders2799
    @lauraschreuders2799 3 роки тому +39

    Linda, you spur my kind of "winter dead imagination". Stewart may be teasing, but you are so creative and artistic!

  • @Cenepk101
    @Cenepk101 3 роки тому +29

    Awesome, Linda. That gravel scoop made me jealous!!!! THAT was a fabulous find !!!!!
    And those britches are cool too. Loved everything

  • @ritastutler1470
    @ritastutler1470 3 роки тому +1

    I am so much like you. I found all kind of treasures in my basement. We look for old chairs and take the bottoms out and put netting and put flowers. I use an old metal wheelbarrow with holes.put dirt and 💐 flowers. I love all of your ideas. I use old beautiful plates , bottles, glass bowlset c in my gardens.

  • @CL-rh8ti
    @CL-rh8ti 2 роки тому

    Linda, you’re such a good teacher.

  • @monawolfe
    @monawolfe 3 роки тому +1

    Love these finds ! I went to drop off at Goodwill & an older gentleman was dropping off 4 large & medium tall glazed terra cotta pots, I asked if I could have them & he said sure! They were glazed red, and I painted them with some epoxy paint I had laying around from a porch painting project, which I tinted a couple of different shades of light terra cotta letting the red peek through in some spots. They now look like aged terra cotta & I absolutely love them! Thank you for all the inspiration, you are amazing!

  • @TAdams-hx9lk
    @TAdams-hx9lk 3 роки тому

    Hurts to see you using that beautiful pan for gravel! Yuuch!

  • @kyleclark7740
    @kyleclark7740 3 роки тому +1

    I love when you break the fourth wall (4:44) and ask Stewart to answer your question. that makes me happy.

  • @edstud1
    @edstud1 3 роки тому +3

    So many things can be be done with a little creativity! I love repurposing things I find along the road!

  • @doloresramirez3289
    @doloresramirez3289 3 роки тому +1

    Hey..Ms pretty Linda.. You are a ray of sunshine. Loved your thrift finds. Thank you. ❤🙏

  • @lauraw.7008
    @lauraw.7008 3 роки тому

    Your bonus basket is a harvest basket! I use mine for more than harvesting; I stand mine on end and set a pot on it indoors in winter. I use it as a weed basket - the roots dry as I'm working, and the soil falls back into the garden. You've given me more ideas as well!
    Thanks

  • @berlindaarmijo9251
    @berlindaarmijo9251 3 роки тому

    Wow!! You are creative. And i love that wall your seating on. Its very nicely made. TY for your video

  • @ellenford4738
    @ellenford4738 3 роки тому +12

    I have a wire basket exactly like your number two item. Mine was from my previous refrigerator. I too use it in the garden.so glad I saved it. Very useful.

  • @basketcase-0140
    @basketcase-0140 3 роки тому

    I too found some gardening pants at Goodwill! Not as fancy as yours, but I was so pleased because they’re cotton and a name brand so good construction. I used to wear worn out jeans but they were too heavy but these pants are so lightweight I can wear them even on hot days and they protect me from bug bites, etc. And they only cost $3.99!🦋🐰🌷Thanks for the inspiration-new subscriber!

  • @NguyenVinhHang
    @NguyenVinhHang 3 роки тому +2

    Yes! Loving the gardening tips and the Sarah Conner vibe for the garden😀🌿

  • @tuijawilska9913
    @tuijawilska9913 3 роки тому +22

    What wonderful thrifted items repurposed for the garden. You have given me so much inspiration. Thank you for this video. I really enjoy watching your junk store finds.

  • @DetroitDutchezz
    @DetroitDutchezz 3 роки тому

    1st I love your style, 2nd your gardening esthetic is so unique and last I love the idea of thrift gifts! The basket on the candle holder is simply genius...So inspiring!

  • @eleanorwinters5200
    @eleanorwinters5200 3 роки тому

    Love all that stuff. Always on the look out...

  • @rondal7316
    @rondal7316 3 роки тому

    This is the first time I have seen your videos and I loved it you are so creative . I really love plants and flowers I worked for one spring/summer and am hooked and love plants and flowers. Love thrift stores 😀
    Blessings love and light.
    Washington State

  • @petermcfadden9426
    @petermcfadden9426 3 роки тому

    Thanks for the very useful ideas. Greetings from North Wales, UK.

  • @angelahagood7143
    @angelahagood7143 3 роки тому +1

    Just found your channel! Where have you been hiding??? How refreshing to see gardening through your eyes! Love this episode...love those pants! What a great idea! Yesterday I purchased a pair of work overalls and never thought of walking across the street to my local Goodwill and looking for second hand, already broke-in work pants. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Now I must binge watch your channel to learn more valuable tidbits of garden knowledge! Thank you, thank you for sharing. I too am obsessed with all things topiary! 🥰🙌🏻👍🏻🌺

  • @carolbrooks9161
    @carolbrooks9161 3 роки тому +16

    You inspired me. I love to shop at thrift stores but I will definitely be looking for stuff I can use in the garden now. And Thanks for the ideas for discouraging the squirrels. I'm about to scream with frustration!

    • @OneTrueWord1988
      @OneTrueWord1988 3 роки тому +2

      Carol Brooks: Try splashing hot sauce around your plants. It works for me!

  • @terirachelsims8928
    @terirachelsims8928 Рік тому

    I was just watching this video again as I clear out "links" I've saved - and I'm not deleting it! I have quite a few thrift store candle holders in my back yard I use for solar lights. And another view of this video gave me the idea of using a candle holder/metal planter basket as a lantern!

  • @marythomson3229
    @marythomson3229 3 роки тому +11

    Love how your creative mind works. Keep these coming!

  • @michaliareeton3247
    @michaliareeton3247 3 роки тому +1

    Hi Linda great video lots of great ideas of different ways to use all types of things in your garden. I love recycling. I do it lots on my garden to. Love your trousers what a great way to use them in your garden. So useful. And bad Stewart for mocking Linda.

  • @reicyspearman5927
    @reicyspearman5927 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful treasures I love the thrift store we used to get talked about as a child for shopping at thrift stores but oh how the same ladies that had something to say back then boy do I run into all of them shopping there

  • @kathyseymour4812
    @kathyseymour4812 3 роки тому +6

    I am so happy to have stumbled upon this video. Thank you so much to inspire me to update some old stuff into new.

  • @zenagardner868
    @zenagardner868 3 роки тому +3

    Hi Linda, I am new to your channel, love your content. I have been gardening for 8 years and love it. This year I will be using my twin sons' wagon. They are 31 now, but it took me a long time to decide to use it. I will use it to hold some of my veggie plants, making it easier to move them around my backyard chasing the sun.

  • @puplover6265
    @puplover6265 3 роки тому +6

    UA-camrs seem to find neat stuff at thrift stores. Maybe I don't have the gift for spotting such great items, but it's nice to see what others score. Glad you're out in the garden again.

    • @marilynpeppers1356
      @marilynpeppers1356 3 роки тому

      Me too. I’m not necessarily creative, but I can copy!😉

    • @lizbeth9222
      @lizbeth9222 3 роки тому

      Just keep trying. I go to Goodwill and Salvation Army often. Sometimes I don't find anything and others I really score.

  • @rebeccawhite9379
    @rebeccawhite9379 3 роки тому

    Totally terminator! Adorable and practical

  • @carmenzermeno7707
    @carmenzermeno7707 3 роки тому

    I love seeing this type of video, love repurposing and you have great ideas😄👍❤️

  • @avrilcaulfield7627
    @avrilcaulfield7627 3 роки тому +1

    A really well presented video
    Tks for sharing

  • @jojo-tl5ei
    @jojo-tl5ei 3 роки тому +1

    Like those pants. Agree with you Linda, I try to avoid buying new plastic things. Great segment! 👍

  • @sharonmcmurrick3853
    @sharonmcmurrick3853 3 роки тому +4

    Really great ideas!!! I love the wire cloches and baskets, I have chickens this would work to keep them out of my pots.

  • @lizbeth9222
    @lizbeth9222 3 роки тому +1

    Linda, I love using thrift store finds in the garden. You supplied some great new ideas! Thanks.

  • @Laura-vv6cf
    @Laura-vv6cf 3 роки тому +2

    Last time I went to Restore another customer was standing in line with s beautiful outdoor urn. It's all in being at right place right time for those great finds at thrift, charity and consignment shops!

  • @jensingerlady
    @jensingerlady 2 роки тому

    I will watch for these items at the Goodwill. Great ideas!

  • @jenniecrawley4343
    @jenniecrawley4343 3 роки тому +3

    Oh Linda. I loved this video. Spoke to my thrifting heart ❤️ and I smiled when you referred to your gardening pants as “britches”. My daughters laugh at me when I call them by that name. They say they have never heard anyone else call them that! 😂😉 Happy Saturday in the Garden

    • @LindaVater
      @LindaVater  3 роки тому

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @2gooddrifters
      @2gooddrifters 3 роки тому

      Britchrs is an old English word, still used in Yorkshire

  • @stacykelly9962
    @stacykelly9962 3 роки тому +1

    ❤️ ❤️ ❤️. New subscriber, so glad to find someone else who repurposes non traditional garden items to make it unique.

  • @jeanieh9386
    @jeanieh9386 3 роки тому +24

    I am obsessed with the chalice planter. I have to head to Goodwill now and hope for the best!

  • @joannerios7034
    @joannerios7034 3 роки тому +1

    Hi Linda. Thank you again for your inspirational and enjoyable videos. I wanted to pass along a tip for keeping squirrels from digging up your plants. It's tool! I learned this from "Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy ". Robbie places a little tool fabric around her pots just on top of the soil and the squirrels hate that their little nails get caught up in it. She uses the dark green or even black so that it doesn't stand out. It's awesome!

    • @LindaVater
      @LindaVater  3 роки тому

      What an incredible idea! Thank you

    • @LindaVater
      @LindaVater  3 роки тому

      I am so gonna copy that! You’re the best!

  • @kyleverschuur7014
    @kyleverschuur7014 3 роки тому +6

    I think I’ve decided that you’re my spirit animal 😂 awesome videos, fab inspiration and it’s so refreshing to know I’m not the only one that refuses to spend more than I have to to garden here in the UK! Thank you for sharing 🙌🏼 x

  • @ellepienews6249
    @ellepienews6249 3 роки тому +2

    Such excellent finds and tips! You have a good eye and imagination. Stewart better be nice to you, there’s more of us then him!🤣😉However the terminator comparison was spot on.

  • @skywonderly1768
    @skywonderly1768 3 роки тому +12

    You are creative that’s why gardening is a art!

  • @susansmith4749
    @susansmith4749 3 роки тому

    This one was good enough to watch twice!

  • @carries.9919
    @carries.9919 3 роки тому

    I love your videos! Thank you for all the great tips! I love to use spray paint for my thrift store finds! I found a wire make- up vanity chair once at a thrift store and took it home. It looked kinda ratty so I spray painted it black, now I use it to display a potted plant. I also spray paint old plastic planter pots. Happy Gardening everyone! 💓❤️🧡💛💚💕

  • @sharonsomers5513
    @sharonsomers5513 3 роки тому +2

    I love all your ideas for thrifted finds in the garden.

  • @lincasteel-butler531
    @lincasteel-butler531 3 роки тому +10

    Awesome! My greatest "transformation" was an vintage pedestal for a sink; from a salvage store. With an vintage light shade on top.....walah.....a bird bath. I spray painted the pedestal a bronze so it blended but still held its own. Total cost: $25 for a one of a kind.

  • @libertyjayne
    @libertyjayne 3 роки тому +1

    Love the ideas and the focus on sustainability and reducing plastic. Would be awesome if you shared more about the harms of plastic for your viewers who may not be aware. I’ve recently learned plastic can only be recycled once and much ends up in the oceans. It feels like no one else knows and/or cares. 😢🐬Thanks Linda for sharing your beautiful garden with us. I have learned so much. 😍🌳🌷

  • @tammyleer9268
    @tammyleer9268 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks Linda, great tips. Love finding cool things at antique and thrift stores for all kind of fun uses!

  • @divababy2974
    @divababy2974 3 роки тому +7

    Straight to the point, I like this video style!

  • @AC-qi9wo
    @AC-qi9wo 3 роки тому +1

    Very creative ideas, loved them all.

  • @carolsassen2485
    @carolsassen2485 3 роки тому +1

    Love recycling op shop things it gets me so excited just getting something for small coins and turning it into a gift or for the house and garden the fence. Love watching your video's so inspiring thank you 💚

  • @terriebutler6737
    @terriebutler6737 3 роки тому +4

    LOVE IT! Especially that rusty metal tray 🪴🪴🪴

  • @debratess9183
    @debratess9183 3 роки тому

    Absolutely brilliant !!

  • @annadunleavy5872
    @annadunleavy5872 3 роки тому +1

    I love you and your videos. I am always thrifting. So fun to get someone else's ideas to repurpose in the garden! I've been looking for the perfect garden pants. That was a score!

  • @mariadias8959
    @mariadias8959 3 роки тому

    Love the ideas, the finds and purposes. You re my winter soothing voice person and now a loving my planet person too. Were all in it😍👌

  • @melissabeswick9430
    @melissabeswick9430 3 роки тому

    I love that you avoid new plastic things!

  • @conniejones3074
    @conniejones3074 3 роки тому +6

    Love this video! Two of my favorite things - thrifting and gardening 😍

  • @teresahatfield4521
    @teresahatfield4521 3 роки тому +1

    Great ideas for the garden. Love them all. Thank you for sharing. Your videos are so interesting and informative!

  • @Lily656
    @Lily656 3 роки тому +1

    I also just love this type of video , plus I already had some of these things I had purchased from thrift stores and you have given me some fantastic ideas!!! Thank you so much for all your videos!!!!

  • @Watts_Art
    @Watts_Art 3 роки тому +1

    So many great ideas! I love repurposed items! We recently repurposed a swing set into a chicken coop! Thank you for your great ideas! Now I want to run off to a thrift store! :)

  • @deborahr9237
    @deborahr9237 3 роки тому +3

    More great inspiration - I have been to the Goodwill weekly. I am getting to know the merch in my store very well...LOL. Thank you - enjoyed this very much!

  • @leahall6715
    @leahall6715 3 роки тому +1

    Love Love Love this!!! Thank you Linda and Stewart.

  • @feliciacardone8900
    @feliciacardone8900 3 роки тому

    Loved this video. Thank you Laura & Aaron.

  • @lindaortolano7837
    @lindaortolano7837 3 роки тому +4

    Linda you crack me up because you remind me of ME!! I do the same thing! I love thrift store finds!! Funny, I get laughed at too!! :)

  • @matthewtucker4515
    @matthewtucker4515 2 роки тому

    I love this! Keep them coming!

  • @suzetteccc
    @suzetteccc 3 роки тому +1

    First of all - the shirt!! It's perfect. I'm not sure I would qualify, but I'm getting there. My guy came to trim the big hedge, and I was planting two Green Mountain cones in pots, and he said "Another boxwood?" Yup😆 Can't have too many!. Second - Can't wait to see the candelabra. Plus, (bonus) Linda - no wonder your mouth won't work. Every day you have another video! You work too hard. Thanks a billion, btw. We love them.💚🌳

  • @marybusch6182
    @marybusch6182 3 роки тому

    I love the nasturtium tip! I love those flowers

  • @daiseegray9110
    @daiseegray9110 3 роки тому +2

    Love ❤️ your tips I have several items in my shed that I will be repurposing this spring.

  • @lisaolsen2213
    @lisaolsen2213 3 роки тому +1

    Enjoyed the video Linda!

  • @saskiaseaglass9504
    @saskiaseaglass9504 3 роки тому +1

    Some great tips here. Thanks. You rock the utility pants ! I love to pick up metal items too. Look forward to seeing the candelabra project when finished.

  • @dinamichelle9016
    @dinamichelle9016 3 роки тому

    Excellent Thrift finds! Love the pants by the way!!!

  • @alygarden7879
    @alygarden7879 2 роки тому

    😅😆 you made me laugh when you said your husband has been mercilessly (and your son's also), making fun of you with "you are so creative" in that high pitch voice..... 😆
    It's their "creative way" if verbalizing their love for you 💖☺️..... Loved one like teasing us but him being your camera person is showing great support ☺️ (even if he is laughing at you behind the camera and behind the scenes). Love your thrift finds and the uses you did with them!

  • @katiesutter7130
    @katiesutter7130 3 роки тому

    I use egg shells to start those finicky nasturtiums and anything that doesn't like being disturbed. Just like a hole for drainage while germinating, plant the entire egg shell and you've feed your plant as well. Snake shed scares the squirrels away also, they don't want to be eaten. As a child we used pieces of an old water hose which worked for awhile, think they finally figured it out though.

  • @GrandmaSandy
    @GrandmaSandy 3 роки тому

    I gosh you found so many cute items at the thrift store for the garden I couldn’t believe what you’ve done and some of them look so beautiful in your garden and the other ones are really handy things for the garden I need to start going and looking more for garden things at the secondhand store I have hardly ever seen anything but maybe I’m just not looking in the right place or I need to open my mind how I can repurpose purpose

  • @TheLifeSheLoves
    @TheLifeSheLoves 3 роки тому +1

    Oh Stewart, so good of you to zoom in on the name of the jar! 😂 Lovely video and great ideas, plus some fun content. Winner!! xxx

  • @terrilynkoetting3066
    @terrilynkoetting3066 3 роки тому +1

    Just found your video, enjoyed immensely, appreciate your ideas and use of thrift store finds, especially of plastic items. Thank you.

  • @cassandraberger9146
    @cassandraberger9146 3 роки тому +1

    😆You ARE so creative 👏& I appreciate your terrific thrifty ideas! 👍👍