From tying a bucket to your bottom for a highly portable weeding seat to using old bras to support melons on the vine, there are some pretty crazy gardening hacks out here. We’ve weeded out the wheat from the chaff to give you 12 of our favourites. From the seemingly absurd to the commonsense, all are designed to make gardening a little bit easier.
1 POT LUCK
Perfect for capricious or indecisive gardeners is the pot-within-a-pot scheme, whereby empty plastic plant pots are sunk into the garden bed. Then, a same-sized pot already containing a plant is simply slotted into the buried pot. Hey presto, an instant garden (see opposite) and one easily changed by lifting out the top pot and replacing it with another. That colour scheme doesn’t work? Just shuffle the upper pots around. Plant
