When life gives you lemons

Let’s share our lemons and lemonade we made from them!
let me start with …
Dead pine trees(lemon)
And the lemonade is:


Border for future flower bed

Pine bark nuggets mulch for my new climbing rose

Garden bench with built in flowerbed.

Garden stool and fence

Pine bark fines for potting mix

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Galina, what are wonderful ways to turn a dead pine to useful material. Well done👍

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Great ideas for this year. Next year, you have more pine trees?

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That’s a great use of a pine tree! I clicked the topic expecting photos of lemon seedlings, but this was even better!

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We have 3.5 acres, more than half of it - woods. I am sure I can collect more bark from fallen pines, but of cause it is a limited resource. And I am sure I don’t need anymore seats!

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I just meant the pine logs rot fast…you may have a soft seat in one or 2 years.

If it would be soft enough to break it apart and haul away I will be happy! I prefer traditional metal benches anyway :laughing:. As of now the horizontal ones are immobile, It took us long time just to arrange them in place.

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And they look nice! (But only for a couple years.) Then, they’ll make fertile soil.

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