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Creating Garden Spaces For Our New Home With Ecoscraps Available at Walmart – Luv Saving Money

Creating Garden Spaces For Our New Home With Ecoscraps Available at Walmart

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We moved into our home in October.  To say that we started our gardens from scratch would be a lie.  The previous owners had created some garden spaces around the house. There is one in the front, a small one on the side, and a large one created on a hillside, all of which had some perennials in it.   I started to notice though that the small one near the mainly used door, only had some tiger lillies lining the back and a creeping perennial towards the back in the middle.  Nothing really in the rest of the garden.  The hill side garden and the front garden had purple creeping phlox and hostas but there were areas that seemed bare and lonely.  Our front porch screamed for hanging baskets and I had visions of how I wanted potted plants going up the steps in the front and a potted plant arrangement near the main door.

This the main door that most people enter through when they come to our home.  It’s plain.  There’s no covering over the door (which we want to fix. Maybe put an awning or something)    Not very welcoming.  We wanted to change that.

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We also wanted to take care of some of those spots that were lacking in the garden. So we took a trip to our local garden center. I picked up several pots, a bunch of potted plants, and some perennials for the gardens. A friend had given me some bulbs to plant in the smaller garden.  Then youngest son brought home some flower bombs he made in school for Mother’s Day.

I also wanted to pick up some potting soil and garden soil.  I wanted it to be organic, no crazy chemicals for the kids or the cats to get into. Plus I wanted to grow some herbs so I wanted something as organic as possible to grow herbs that would be used in our food and drinks. I had heard about EcoScraps at Walmart. I’m gonna tell you more about these organic gardening products  in a few minutes because they’re pretty cool.

I used to work in a garden center years ago.  I found that there is usually a clearance rack with plants that are dirt cheap (pun intended). Sure they’re a bit sickly looking but with the proper care they perk right up.  Those are my favorite plants.  I was putting some $1 plants in my cart to nurse back to health.  One of the garden center workers saw me. She help up a 12 pack of pansies and said “These are only $1 too” I looked at her confused.  I asked “For the whole 12 pack!?” She said “yep” so those little guys went home with me too.  Don’t underestimate the bargain plants!

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So after I bought all these neglected plants and a few pots I headed to Walmart to get the EcoScraps gardening products I was telling you about.  To appreciate it, you have to know about it. EcoScraps recycles food scraps and turns them into organic, sustainable lawn and garden products. Here’s some food for thought:

  • In the US we waste 40% off food produced. That is enough to fill the Rose Bowl every day! It sits in landfills producing methane which is 20x more harmful thatn CO2
  • Between 2011 and 2015, EcoScraps recycled 75 million lbs of food waste. We are matching that number in 2016 with projected recycling of another 75 million lbs of food waste–this time in just 12 months.
  • Recycling 15 million lbs of food waste is equivalent to keeping 500,000 cars off the road for an entire day.

Does that have you thinking?  EcoScraps has a number of lawn and garden products. You can check them all out HERE.I got the EcoScraps organic potting soil, EcoScraps organic garden soil, and EcoScraps organic plant food since I figured my scrawny little rescue plants could use all the help they could get.  My kids love to help me garden so we set to work right away.  First the potted plants.

EcoScraps organic potting soil collage

Then we decided to tackle the gardens.  I had bought some lithodora and more creeping phlox for the hillside garden.  The hill is a little bit of a challenge, it’s steeper than it looks but it doesn’t stop me from getting up there to weed and plant.  My oldest son was happy to help.  I love spending this time with my kids.  The bag of garden soil was pretty heavy so we reused some of the pots. We filled them up and took them up the hill with us.  It worked out much better.  Sure we had to refill once or twice but it worked out fine.

Ecoscraps organic garden soil colage

My daughter loves to help.  I put some little gardening gloves on her and let her help feed the plants with the EcoScraps organic plant food.  You don’t  need much to feed the plants. Even with all the plants we planted and all the ones that were already there this bag will last us a long time.  You only have to feed the plants once a month. We decided to feed the fuschia hanging baskets along with the potted plants and some of our indoor plants.  My daughter just loved helping.

ecoscraps organic plant food hanging baskets

So after all the fun of gardening. We finally got a main entrance door that is starting to look welcoming.  At least I think so, what do you think?

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I can’t wait to see our flowers blossom. We’ve had a lot of rain here lately so I’m sure that will help as well. Here’s a video to help you learn more about EcoScraps, available at Walmart.

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Author: Angie

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55 thoughts on “Creating Garden Spaces For Our New Home With Ecoscraps Available at Walmart”

  4. The Ecoscraps product I’d like to try is the Ecoscraps Natural & Organic All Purpose Plant Food.

  5. I would love to try the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Tomato, Herb & Vegetable Plant Food.

  6. I would most like to try the Ecoscraps Natural & Organic Fresh Start Plant Food 🙂

  7. I would love to try the Ecoscraps Natural and organic tomato,herb and vegetable plant food.

  10. I would like to try the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Tomato, Herb & Vegetable Plant Food

  13. I would like to try the natural and organic tomato, vegetable and herb plant food

  15. I would love to try the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Tomato, Herb & Vegetable Plant Food.

  18. I would like to try the Ecoscraps Natural & Organic Rose and Flower Plant Food.

  19. I have a hard time with my garden and I would love to try Natural and Organic Moist Garden Soil!

  22. I would love to try the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Moist Garden Soil!

  23. I would like to try Ecoscraps Natural & Organic Rose and Flower Plant Food for my rose garden.

  25. I would like to try the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Tomato and herb formula. We always plant a lot of herbs and tomatoes.

  26. I’d like to try the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Tomato, Herb & Vegetable Plant Food . I like the idea of growing food WITH food! 🙂

  27. I would like to try Ecoscraps Natural & Organic All Purpose Plant Food .

  29. I would like to try their Moist Compost. We are starting a garden and I am sure this would be quite helpful.

  33. I would like to try the natural organic moisture retaining potting mix. They have a lot of good items!

  34. I would like to try the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Moist Potting Mix.
    thank you

  36. I want to try the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Tomato, Herb & Vegetable Plant Food.

  38. Thanks for the chance — I’d love to try the Ecoscraps Natural & Organic Fresh Start Plant Food.

  39. The Ecoscraps product I’d like to try is the Ecoscraps Natural & Organic All Purpose Plant Food.

  40. I would love to try the gardening with Ecoscraps, I love to garden anyway and this looks interesting and fun.

  41. I would like to try the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Tomato, Herb & Vegetable Plant Food.

  45. I would love to try the Ecoscraps Natural and organic tomato,herb and vegetable plant food.

  46. The organic garden soil looks great! I always have a little garden that my toddlers can help with and this soil looks great!

  47. I would love to try this one, Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Tomato, Herb & Vegetable Plant Food
    @tisonlyme143

  48. I’d like to try the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Moist Potting Mix because I have several pots.
    Thanks for the contest.

  52. I’d like to try the Ecoscraps Natural & Organic Rose and Flower Plant Food

  54. I would pick up some of the Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Moist Potting Mix first for some potted plants.

  55. Ecoscraps Natural and Organic Tomato, Herb & Vegetable Plant Food would be great to try in my garden

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