Preparing for Spring

Winter is a time of hard work for us gardeners.

There are seed catalogs to read, crop rotations to plot, compost piles to worry over, and more.

While you're sitting in the house with cabin fever, don't forget to save some household items from the recycling bin for use in your spring garden.

TP and paper towel tubes are perfect fortresses for little seedlings. Cut TP tubes in half and larger tubes in fourths or thirds. (Decorating them to look like castles is optional.)

Juice or milk jugs can be reused as cloches to protect seedlings from weather extremes and marauding neighbor kitties.

What other items do you save for reuse in the garden? Share your ideas with us in the comments.