Turn your kitchen colanders into a hanging garden

TURN YOUR OLD KITCHEN COLANDERS INTO PERFECT GARDEN PLANTERS

From the kitchen to the garden and right back inside again. You can re-use that old colander – with its chips and dents the evidence of too much cookery love – by taking it outside and planting it up with herbs, salad greens or strawberries. Yum! You could even go ornamental with spring-flowering bulbs or colourful polyanthus. Whatever you grow in a pot will also grow in a colander – the one kitchen utensil with ready-made drainage holes. So give it a new lease on life with living things!

1 A colander with an old-fashioned design is perfect for old-fashioned African violets. 2 Plant pre„y primulas with daisies such as Bellis perennis, then add flat-leaf parsley for more kitchen love. 3 Hellebores and blue scillas will cast a warm glow during the cold winter months. 4 Add fine grit to your mix when planting succulents to ensure good drainage. 3 2 4