THis is a conversation about Recycle Household Items around the garden works, We’re at the Western limit of Southwest Gardens in Pasadena California where Yvonne Savio is showing us how to use some common leftover things in the garden Yvonne what are you doing right now hi Curtis well right now I’m putting on some hand lotion and before you go to the garden before I go to the garden the soil in the garden is so dry that I put on lots of hand lotion put my gloves on then at the end of the day when I’m all done I have perfect hands but you’ve got some other things here that include some leftovers to don’t you.  I sure do first of all this bucket that I can get in any hardware store it’s the perfect fit and it really handles just about anything I want to take up to the garden with me let’s go over to this orange tree and I’ll show you a fresh picked way to germinate new seeds ah the orange tree you’re gonna reuse the orange tree well I’m gonna reuse an orange you pick it you cut it in half you eat it okay and then you fill it with a little potting mix it’s a very small spot but it’s like a little cell.

I made a flower pot but you just put one little seed right in there and just set this down water it when it’s sprouts you know you’re set and then you plant the whole piece you don’t have to take it out of the pot you plant this pot the whole thing and the rind will just decompose and the roots will come straight through out into the garden give me more tricks pours down this way sure let’s go Devon I remember my little red wagon and now you’re using the wagon in the garden well you know Curtis I never had one as a kid I was really deprived so my husband was kind enough to get it for me mm-hmm and I use it for gardening and another thing I use is all these millions of cherry tomato or strawberry containers that you get everybody wonders what to do with those things well there’s two things that I figured out you can do with a paper towel just fill it with potting mix put some seeds into it that’s how you keep the soil in the basket and you plant the seeds in there and then when they’ve grown these are squash mm-hmm that I’ll plant in the garden over there okay but the neat thing about it is things like squash the paper towel will disintegrate and the roots will come out here so you plant the whole basket the other thing you can do is when you’ve got your little seedling in the soil already you put this on it especially corn is very tender and succulent so the birds come and munch it away and this keeps it so that by the time it finally come is tall enough to come up out of here it’s not a succulent anymore so the birds don’t pay much attention that’s a really great tip what surprises do you have waiting for us around the corner lots more go see we have some ways of saving things but enabling a lot of good watering in your garden cut off the bottom of the bin then you have two pieces the first one without these holes in it you can go ahead and use just as another platter to start seedlings but if you cut the center out and cut this one opening up to one of the sides you can use that on your tomatoes to keep the cut worms boil a lot of gardeners that’d be a real handy thing or something otherwise they’d have thrown away exactly and I’m puzzled why do you have these black pots buried in the garden let me show you over here okay okay what we got here is that same container we’ve got the trellis around it and I’ve put compost or manure a shovel full so when you water inside you make manure tea or compost tea exactly automatically every time now there’s two ways of planting around here you can either seed the whole area or what I like to do is two kinds of planting all at once I will plant a seedling and I usually do three around each container nicely spread out and I always split the base here that helps those roots just you don’t do that they’re just taken fine exactly they’ll be it they’ll stay in their own container so plant that in and then take a couple of seeds and that’s what you plant in between so you’ve used your space here really efficiently just like you’re using those things normally get throw away that’s right and you have great fun in the garden we want thanks for showing us how to recycle in the garden you’re welcome