Grow It, Don't Throw It

75 Ideas for Recycling Rubbish in the Garden

By: Simon Akeroyd

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Hardcover | 8 October 2026 | Edition Number 1

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Turn your rubbish into green treasure with hacks to reuse, repurpose, and recycle in your garden

Simon Akeroyd is back with 75 brilliantly "rubbish" gardening ideas! Save money and save the planet with handy hacks that turn your waste into garden treasure

Simon shares ingenious ideas and practical projects for turning scrap objects into useful, beautiful items for the garden.

Turn egg cartons into modular seed trays
Make a hanging herb garden by plant up old gloves
Turn old tote bags into potato planters
Use unwanted forks to protect seedlings
Fill pots with pine cones to save on compost
Make an instant garden barbecue out of old bricks

Discover how you can garden for next to nothing in this horticultural treasure trove for thrifty gardeners.

Grow It, Don't Throw It helps you reuse, repurpose, and recycle your way to a more sustainable space.

About the Author

Simon Akeroyd is a passionate gardener, author, and social media influencer with over 30 years experience in horticulture. He has written more than 30 books to date, many for the RHS and National Trust, and including Grow Your Groceries (March 2025), which hit the Sunday Times Top 10 in its first week of publication. With over 2 million followers across Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, Simon makes gardening accessible to all, sharing easy, low-cost tips for gardening and growing in small spaces.

As a former BBC gardening researcher and producer, Simon loves to include entertaining storytelling in his informative content and he was recently recognised by the Garden Media Guild as their Social Media Influencer of the Year (2025). Simon has also managed some of Britain's most stunning gardens, including RHS Wisley, Agatha Christie's Greenway, and Painshill. When he isn't gardening, Simon enjoys canoeing on the River Dart and exploring Dartmoor with his two dogs, River and Beanie.

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