A WOMAN who got inventive with a pair of filing cabinets was praised for her "fabulous" garden. Laura Fuller shared in the Gardening on a Budget Facebook Page how she had bought two white filling cabinets to use in her garden as planters and "a little salad plot". 3 Laura shared her ingenus idea on Facebook Credit: Laura Fuller/Facebook 3 She said everything cost her just over £200 Credit: Laura Fuller 3 She uses plastic bottles and cardboard to help with drainage when it comes to compost Credit: Laura Fuller / Facebook She wrote: "Two filing cabinets made into planters and a little salad plot.
"[I] put casters on the bottom and drainage holes, painted with Hammerite and 1/3 filled with plastic bottles and cardboard so I didn’t use as much compost, still 7 60ltr bags in each one." She continued by saying everything, including the plants , cost her just over £200. She compared this to an Amazon seller she had seen which she said had a planter up for £300.
The pictures show her three cabinets stood side-by-side on the patio with snaps of sprouting plants from one of the draws. She quipped: "Just need to print some labels for the salad draws." The 36-year-old told Fabulous: "I got both the filing cabinets off Facebook Marketplace for £45 for the two.
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