From Storage Bin to Garden Box

This past week while perusing on Walmart and Target's websites for affordable garden gear, I came across a few garden boxes. What a cool idea!

Unfortunately, with our money-saving minds in full-gear, spending $150-$200 on a decorative garden box wasn't really on the top of our necessary spendings list.

So we decided to get crafty.

We have an old wooden storage box that sits in the living room. It currently serves as a place for shoes to sit on, garden tools to reside in, odds 'n ends... you get the picture. So we decided with a little TLC, it would make the perfect garden box.

It just needed to be cleaned out...

Stained...

Lined with a tarp so the box wouldn't mold...

And filled with a little potting soil and mulch...

Tada! Our very own garden box. All for a total of $44!

$15 stain
$3 mulch
$6 soil
$20 plants