Serangoon Newsletter (Jan 08 issue)
The bimonthly issue of the Serangoon newsletter for Jan 08 was delivered into my mailbox when I opened it this afternoon.
On the second page was the article which I wrote about the Recycling Garden found inside HortPark. The Recycling Garden in HortPark is, in my opinion, quite tastefully done.
This article in the Serangoon newsletter is more of a pictorial nature as you can see. Went down specially to HortPark one afternoon and took those pictures under the sweltering hot weather. But what matters is that the pictures turned out quite well.
Hope the residents of Serangoon can get some ideas of recycling their household items for gardening rather than dumping out into the bins during their annual spring cleaning… Reduce and recycle!
For those who are reading this current post during the Chinese New Year period, let me wish all of you a Happy Lunar New Year. May the Year of the Rat bring good luck and health to you and all at home!
I think it’s great! Thanks for sharing this article.
I use recycled drinking bottles for small seedlings.
But your article has inspired me to not restrict myself to just buying planting pots. Creativity pays off and the sense of satisfaction from recycling is even bigger.
Hi Theresa,
Thanks for reading and I am glad that the contents helped. But we must also thank HortPark for the great example they have in their premises.
Frankly, I don’t really believe in buying nice pots for gardening. They can be expensive and we are not helping the environment by doing that.
When I raise seedlings, I often reuse used styrofoam cups with holes poked beneath as pots, as opposed to buying new thumbpots or seedling trays from the nursery.
You can even reuse paper egg trays as pots to raise your seedlings. They are biodegradable and work somewhat like Jiffies and peat pots.