The Onslow County Master Gardeners held their summer social last month and Nancy graciously hosted us as her home. We had a great time socializing and enjoying Nancy's beautiful home and garden. I particularly liked her neat idea for storing small items in her garden.
Nancy saw a discarded mailbox tossed in the ditch one day. Instead of leaving it or throwing it in the trash, Nancy scrubbed it up, painted it and mounted it near her vegetable garden. She dressed the mailbox up with some fun garden art and hung a basket from the support post.
Nancy uses the mailbox to store gloves, hand tools, seed packets and other items so they are protected from the weather and always handy when she needs them. That's way better than my technique of carrying my pruners around in my purse.
