15 FREE Gardening Hacks for Seniors You’ll Wish You Knew Sooner! 🌿
Gardening should be easy, enjoyable, and stress-free, no matter your age! In this video, I’m sharing 15 genius FREE gardening hacks that will help seniors save money, reduce effort, and keep gardening fun and rewarding. From using household items in creative ways to simplifying daily tasks, these tricks will make your garden thrive without breaking your back—or your wallet!
Whether you’re a lifelong gardener or just getting started, these senior-friendly gardening tips will help you garden smarter, not harder. Let’s dig in!
💬 Which hack will you try first? Do you have a favorite free gardening tip? Let me know in the comments!
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📖 Timestamps for Easy Navigation:
0:00 Introduction
01:17 Cake Stand Bird Feeder
02:20 Terracotta Pot Tool Holder
03:33 Trash Can Raised Planter
04:24 Free Plant Propagation
05:30 Jar/Vase Greenhouses
06:30 Plate Plant Saucers
07:30 Bird Feeder Watering Station
08:28 Community Gardening Supplies
09:26 Repaint Garden Decor
10:18 Bug Hotel
11:20 Eggshell Gardening Gold
12:28 Cooking Water Fertilizer
13:19 Newspaper Weed Control
14:20 Bottle Self-Watering
15:15 Shoe Organizer Vertical Garden
16:15 Conclusion
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46 Comments
These gardening hacks are pure gold! 🌱✨ Who knew an old cake stand could be a bird feeder or a trash can could become a raised planter? Love how these tips make gardening easier, especially for seniors dealing with aches and pains. Definitely trying the plastic bottle self-watering trick and the newspaper weed barrier! Which one’s your favorite? 🌿💚
I use an old umbrella stand for my tools and an old plastic see though she holder for my seeds. These things have worked for me for years.
I hope everyone watching this video receives all the happiness and success that life brings
Quit with the AI 🤖 and garden.
I’m going to try the newspaper for weeds thanks
Great tips❤
Cardboard works great for free weed control too. Stores are generally happy to give them to you.
I've had raised beds for years . Use mulch mainly leaves for a weed barrier
You dont need to fill that trash can with all dirt . A foot of dirt is enough. Put tree limbs n small wood in bottom first
AI telling us how to garden .
Any suggestions on how to keep the squirrels from getting all the bird seed? I’ve tried everything and those little varmints are so smart, they still get the birds food.
It is even easier to keep your tools in a bucket it is easy not take along as you go. Thank you for your advice have a wonderful spring
Awesome garden tips for us older folk (ME) hahaha 💙💚💛🧡💜 Liz
Another way to store tools in the garden is to mount a mailbox within easy reach- keeps rain out and easy access.
When planting in a big pot, I use groundcloth to cover the drain holes so dirt won’t leak out, put gravel on top of that and then put recyclables into the pot before filling with dirt( then it’s not too heavy to move ) ❤️😊👍🏻. I will sometimes bury a gallon milk jug that I’ve poked holes in and bury it so the cap is the same level as the plant, then fill with water to keep plants watered👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 16:59
Everyone who reads this, we don't know each other and probably never will but I wish you all the best in life and all the luck in the world !
Very useful tips for garderners' like me. Big support from Nepal. Stay connected 🎉
I always reuse containers. I use milk jugs and 1 gallon water jugs with the bottoms cut out for mini greenhouses ,cottage cheese tubs,dip, mayo jars for crushed egg shells,because I put them into my tomatoes hole when planting too stop bloom rot,and I use plastic lettuce containers for seed starting,mini green houses,and plastic meat trays for under the seed starters and house plants,and plastic laundry soap bottles for plant tags. And yes I buy 8 tomato plants and prune off starts and I use hola hoops for plant covers over my cabbage,cauliflower & broccoli plant too out the pests.
The raised bed trashcan is gonna take a lot of soil to fill that up, for the amount of growing space it will give you.
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Balcony gardening please?….
news flash. In my community area, there are no more newspapers. Any news about the community is online. It is so sad. I used to love opening the newpapper with
my morning coffee. Gone are the good old days.
Great tips! Thank you. My favorites are the water bottles , eggshells and vegetable water. So amazing and no cost, so love it 😊 thank you 👏🏻
I’m kind of new to being a senior citizen. Glad to find you. I do the eggshells already but very useful other tips.
I would avoid using plastic bottles out in the sun to water any kind of plants intended for food. Hot plastic leaches into the water, the soil, & is picked up by the plant roots. That trick is fine for cut flower plants, though.
I like all of them, thank you
My 6 year old mini poodle takes my tools away when I put them down for a second.
Simply Beautiful!❤🎉😊
Who can afford Eggs?!
Great tips❤ thank you
I’ve used pool noodles and package foam to fill large planters . It reduces waste, less soil needed and best of all the planters aren’t too heavy !
Squirrels keep eating all the bird-food!
Thanks for sharing your practical ideas
Some bakeries will give or sell buckets cheap, 1 gallon, 2-3 gallon or even 5 gallon buckets from frosting. You have to clean them yourself, but they work put holes in the bottom and some meat departments especially small meat departments like Hispanic they get sour cream, different kinds, and different containers, and I have one locally that I asked him to save them for me and they saved me a whole bunch. So you gotta check back pretty often.
If you’re painting terracotta pots, you need to waterproof the inside of the pot, then prime the entire pot be for you decorate with paint. If not, the paint will lift because the terracotta pot absorbs water.
Excellent video.
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I use boxes 📦 for weed control!
I am using 16 fifty-gallon food grade barrels for my garden! No bending. All work & harvesting at waist level!
Saw this almost exact tips on another channel.
Good birthday cleats ,bird poo?
If you rinse your rice before cooking don't throw the water away, use the water as fertilizer for your plants. It's amazing how well they grow after a boost from rice water. And, if course it's free. 😊🌿🌿🌸
I put fake flowers in front yard. Last forever and they are sooo beautiful
A,so using large pots. Not to much bending over. Cover flowers plants in winter to protect . And they keep returning the following year. Plant perennials
You can smother weeds with WEEDS! Our back yard is separated from a dirt alley where weeds grow. Well, that’s not true anymore. We learned to heap the weeds we pulled onto those weeds in the alley to smother them. That’s where we use the extra leaves that don’t get composted, too.
can use cardboard instead of newspaper I do it all the time and I like the watering hack for planters !!!
The bottles for watering