A dacha is not only a favorite vacation spot for city residents, but also an opportunity to play the role of a designer and bring the most daring ideas to life. By the way, this does not always require significant investment; you can get by with improvised means. We present to your attention a selection of life hacks for your summer cottage that you can implement today!
TOP 20 great ideas for summer cottage design
Flowerbeds made from drainpipes
Pieces of old pipes can be used to make excellent hanging flower beds. They are attached to any crossbar with a strong twine or metal chain. Great way landscaping the veranda, gazebo and even the fence!
Pallet furniture
Old pallets make great garden furniture! You can make tables, chairs, ottomans, even swings for relaxation. To make it softer, sew small pillows or covers with foam rubber. Equip large tables with wheels for ease of movement. All that remains is to paint the furniture in the color you like.
vertical garden
To quickly add greenery to a wall or fence, use climbing annual plants- bindweed, sweet pea, nasturtiums, climbing roses. Wild grapes will also work. For herbs or flowers in pots, you can make a frame from strong wire or wooden slats.
Tea corner made from tree stumps
Stumps left after uprooting old trees can decorate the area! You can use them to make wonderful garden furniture, lamps, and figurines for the playground. If you equip a cute stump glass table top- you will get a functional table with which you will not be ashamed to decorate your apartment!
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New life for old rakes
Broken rakes make an excellent rack for storing garden tools. If they are properly cleaned and painted, rakes can serve as a key holder, holders for glasses or kitchen utensils.
Original flower beds
You probably have a leaky basin, watering can or kettle at your dacha. Don’t rush to throw it away; such items make excellent flower beds. You can make a nice flower garden in an old chair, suitcase and other accessories.
Such flower beds are now very fashionable, other ideas for flower beds -.
Healing garden
Herbal tea is not only tasty, but also healthy. Especially if you grew medicinal herbs with your own hands and are 100% sure of their environmental friendliness. Mint, chamomile, sage, St. John's wort, yarrow, thyme - the choice of plants depends on your preferences. You can create individual beds or plant seeds in pots or baskets.
Treehouse
It is not at all necessary to hire engineers and design real home. Children will also love a playground made of unnecessary boards at a level of a meter from the ground! Instead of steps you can adapt ladder. Great play space!
Woodshed bench
A fire pit or fire pit is a favorite place for the whole family to relax. In order not to run to the barn for firewood, a small storage can be equipped right under the bench!
Light accents in the garden
Typical lanterns along the path are boring. Illumination of trees and large shrubs will make the garden more comfortable in dark time days. It is more economical to use solar-powered flashlights.
Decor from old cans
Tin and glass jars are an excellent material for all kinds of crafts. You can use them to make lamps, bird feeders, flower pots and just cute garden decor.
Playground
In the yard you can equip playground for people of all ages. Scrabble, bowling, puzzle assembly - every hobby is worthy of implementation.
Decorative well
Elegant decor that can hide communications and a well. It is important that the style of the well is combined with other buildings and the design of the site itself. There are a lot of finishing materials - from stone and wood to siding and foam blocks.
Sofa made from wire reels
Coil base and several wooden planks- everything you need for a comfortable garden sofa. It’s so nice to drink tea on it in the evening, wrapped in a warm blanket.
Utilities from a plastic canister
You can make a convenient garden watering can out of an unnecessary plastic canister - just make holes in the lid with a hot nail.
If you have a lot of them, you can make an excellent rack for the barn - everything will fit.
Magnetic holders
With their help you can not only organize kitchen knives, but also store various instruments- screwdrivers, pliers, wrenches and others. Great option for home, shed and garage.
Path of glowing pebbles
If your area doesn’t have lighting everywhere, it doesn’t matter. You can paint the pebbles with neon paint and place them along the paths. Even in the dark, you definitely won’t stumble!
Canopy for shading the site
It’s great if the gazebo or veranda is closed, but what to do on open area in the sun, if there is not a single tree nearby? - Make a mobile tent. It is best to use tarpaulin or waterproof fabric. It is secured with rings and a rope threaded along the entire length of the product. When folded, it takes up minimal space.
Stand for rinsing feet in the country
All you need is a base frame, stones and water from a hose. An excellent option for those who like to walk barefoot: before entering the house, wash your feet from sand and earth, and at the same time give your feet a small massage on the stones.
Flowerbeds with pine cones
Cones can decorate both rock gardens and ordinary flower beds. The flowerbed looks well-groomed and at the same time the risk of pets digging up the soil is reduced. By the way, you can make wonderful garden crafts from pine cones.
A few more life hacks and ideas for your garden.
Country house For many people it becomes a second home. Surely you or your parents have friends who leave their apartments and move to their summer residences for the period from approximately April to October. A dacha is an energy-filled place where you can relax not only your soul, but also your body.
Here you can restore your spiritual strength, feel a connection with nature, harmony and peace. Many people understand how important a role a dacha plays in their lives, so they try to arrange it accordingly. We invite you to check out these 27 cool ways that will help diversify even the most banal country house interior.
Ideas for a summer residence
- Table with stand. Simple and tasteful.
- A cool table in which you can even hide something.
- Improvised tables are the main attributes of any cottage.
- A cheerful mushroom table will not only provide protection from the sun, but also lift your spirits.
- Great makeshift tables! When the firewood in the hearth runs out, you can use the wood in it for its intended purpose.
- A wonderful alternative to a home bed! The main thing is that the mattress is comfortable.
- A bar stool, the height of which depends on the owner, and not on the manufacturer.
- Such a table is perhaps accessible to everyone.
- Who would have thought that flower pots could serve as a coffee table!
- Cool hammock on the porch. They wouldn't kick me out of there!
- When creating an original carpet color, you can use adhesive tape and paint.
- The easiest way to update plastic chairs is to repaint them.
- Bright armchairs for a stylish summer!
- Super chair made of plastic boxes. Cheap and cheerful.
- It’s not entirely comfortable to sit on, but you can make a great photo shoot.
- A transparent bar is what every dacha needs!
- There can never be too many succulents.
- And beer too!
- Everything you need for a comfortable stay.
- A table that can be used as a flower stand.
- Chic table made from pallets.
- A wonderful ottoman that will become an integral attribute of your dacha.
- A little imagination, and you can do just as well!
- A fun table for children and adults.
- Pillow self made for colorful dreams.
- The eco-chair is an unusual design element.
- Another easy way to make a table.
A dacha, like an apartment, conveys the spirit and habits of its owner. Some people treat it as an obligatory and tedious pastime, while others put their soul and free time into the dacha. Share this collection
Gardening work is often tiring and boring. Perhaps this is why summer residents are the best inventors. To make their work easier, get rid of monotonous processes, and reduce the time spent, they find non-standard solutions with minimal cash investment.
We found the most useful and relevant life hacks from experienced amateur gardeners and newbie gardeners.
It is not at all necessary to spend money on purchasing sprinklers, which are not always effective and often become clogged and become unusable. An excellent alternative is a 1.5 or 2 liter mineral water bottle. At the bottom, retreating 5-7 cm from the bottom, we make holes. The size and frequency of the holes control the degree of atomization and flow power: the smaller the holes, the thinner the streams will be; The greater the number of holes, the wider the flow will be.
We make holes only on one side. Next, through a plastic tube, we connect a hose of a suitable diameter to the neck of the bottle. The tube must fit tightly into the neck so that it does not get knocked out by the pressure.
This design will last no more than one season, since algae will begin to multiply under sunlight and high humidity. The holes can also become clogged with debris. Although replacing such a system will not require either time or money.
2. Watering can from a plastic canister
Even advanced summer residents cannot do without manual watering: no, no, yes, you have to use a watering can. You can make it from any plastic canister. It is more convenient to take containers with a volume of 5-10 liters. The handle is already there, all that remains is to make holes for the water to escape. We make them in a plastic lid with a hot nail or an awl. The smaller the holes, the finer the spray will be.
If you take a chemical canister, be sure to rinse the container thoroughly. This idea is good when you need several small volume watering cans for foliar feeding, treating soil with biological products in a greenhouse, working with folk remedies plant protection. Watering cans can be labeled with a permanent marker so as not to confuse the purpose of each.
Advice! You can make a measuring scale on the canister for preparing working solutions. Pour 0.5 liters of water into it with a measuring cup and mark the liquid level with a marker, then another 0.5 liters and so on until the full volume.
3. Mini-greenhouses made from plastic bottles and disposable cups
One more thing useful application plastic containers. When sowing seeds of heat-loving crops (cucumber, zucchini, pumpkin) in open ground there is a risk of delayed germination and even death of seedlings in the event of a sharp cold snap. To solve this problem, gardeners suggest using disposable cups after planting seedlings or seeds.
They already have drainage holes that will serve for gas exchange. To prevent the cups from being blown away by the wind, they are buried 2-3 cm into the soil. Seeds, 2 pcs. Sow in a hole in moist soil and immediately cover with a glass. As a result, the seed and developing sprout are in a greenhouse with more favorable conditions.
The top part of a 1.5-2 liter plastic bottle can be used to cover early cabbage seedlings. Immediately after planting the seedlings, the lid should be closed, but not tightly, so that fresh air can penetrate. Once the plants are established, the covers can be removed completely.
4. Nursery from a plastic bottle
Plastic bottles with a volume of 2-5 liters. Convenient to use for growing flower and green seedlings, rooting cuttings and strawberry tendrils.
In a bottle positioned horizontally, cut out a long window on one side so that there are sides left to hold the soil. In the opposite side we make several holes to drain irrigation water and pour a little expanded clay or river sand. Next, fill it with nutritious soil, place it on trays and sow seeds or plant cuttings.
These trays are lightweight and easy to carry. Through the transparent walls you can see the degree of development of the root system. Plastic is easy to clean and will last for more than one season. And if there is no place to store the nurseries after release, then it would not be a shame to throw them away, but make new ones for the new season.
5. A fun way to make holes for sowing seeds using cardboard egg cells
To prepare vegetable beds it takes a lot of energy. A responsible task is marking and cutting furrows for sowing. They should be smooth and of the same depth along the entire length. Resourceful summer residents offer homemade device for marking even and neat holes - a cardboard cell for eggs.
Seeds can be lowered into each hole or by skipping 1-2 holes, thus adjusting the distance between plants depending on the crop.
6. Autonomous watering for the garden
Watering problem moisture-loving plants at the dacha during the working week can be easily solved using a 5-liter plastic bottle. In the lower part, in a circle, retreating 2 cm from the bottom, make several holes of small diameter.
Note! Optimal quantity and the size of the holes can be selected experimentally, but you can start with four holes with a diameter of 1 mm.
The bottles are buried halfway into the soil before seedlings are planted or sowed. Planting is carried out in such a way that root system plants was in the moisture zone (approximately 10 cm from the bottle). Common scheme: 4 plants around 1 bottle. The lid is closed tightly: this slows down the release of water and creates an analogy drip irrigation. Water is poured through the neck with a hose or bucket, but do not add 3-5 cm to the edge.
The method is often used for autonomous watering of cucumbers, which are painful to tolerate even short-term droughts.
7. How to propagate rare potato varieties with “eyes”
The method that our grandmothers used during the war years due to a lack of seed material. Now it is actively used for propagating rare and expensive varieties. A separate eye on a tuber is a full-fledged bud that will produce a viable plant with a root and a vegetative part. All a bud needs to start growing is 5-10 g from the mother tuber.
Mother tubers of seed potatoes are carefully sorted and only healthy ones are selected. The knife must be disinfected (you can wipe it with alcohol). Freshly cut slices with “eyes” are not planted immediately - the cut areas must dry out to prevent infection. For prevention, they are rolled in ash.
Planting is carried out 5-6 days after cutting. During this period, the slices are stored in the shade, laid out in one layer in a wooden box. Summer residents note an increase in the yield and marketability of potatoes from “eyes”.
Advice! Not all buds of the tuber are active, so cutting into slices is best done after germination, when small sprouts appear.
8. Non-standard beds - strawberries in an old chest of drawers
Beds for plants with a compact shallow root system can be made from any available materials. Or you don’t have to: just take an old chest of drawers, pour nutrient soil into the boxes and plant strawberries and herbs.
The drawn out drawers resemble multi-tiered bed, where the plants of each tier receive required quantity solar radiation. This chest of drawers can be placed next to country house or summer kitchen: comfortable and beautiful.
9. Decorative beds in barrels
Plastic barrels, painted the same color or different, can be used to create original vegetable garden. This method of arranging beds is good in areas with poor, acidic and heavy soils.
Each barrel is cut into 2 halves, deepened into the soil and filled with soil of the composition needed for a particular crop. It's very convenient. It is advisable to grow onions, green and spicy herbs in barrels.
10. Flower bed in an old enamel bathtub
Everywhere they grow annual flowers! Here is another option: an old enamel bathtub for a tall and large flower bed. It looks impressive and unusual, and the idea itself is easy to implement.
11. Onion on a feather at home in a plastic bottle
Germination onions for feathers for use in winter and early spring - not new idea. But how to implement this so that it is both neat and practical?
5 liter plastic bottle with holes along the entire height, filled with garden soil has several advantages:
- takes up little space, but gives a high yield of greens;
- bulbs do not feed clean water, but grow fully in the ground, so the feather is more aromatic and tastier;
- the filled “bed” is easy to move and does not leave dirty circles on the windowsill;
- the bulbs in the ground are not depleted, so they do not need to be replaced until the ground greens appear.
12. A quick way to garter tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers in a greenhouse and in open ground
Gartering seedlings takes a lot of time and is very tiring. Experienced summer residents shared their secret: during planting, one end of the twine of the required length is lowered into the hole (the tip can protrude from the opposite side) and pressed with an earthen lump of seedlings. No knots, everything turns out quickly.
After planting, the other end remains on the ground, and after a week, the rooted plants are simply wrapped with twine and tied to a support. At the end of the growing season, the ropes are simply pulled out of the soil, and the tops are sent to the compost heap.
13. Marking beds with wine corks on skewers
Well-groomed beds are a source of pride for a gardener. Designer signs with the signature of the crop or variety will also help put things in order. Summer residents always engage in “varietal testing” and select varieties “for themselves.” In order not to confuse the varieties after planting, the beds should be marked.
Wine corks on skewers fit well into an eco-garden and at the same time are well preserved outdoors. The name of the variety or crop is signed with a permanent marker on the cork, then a skewer is stuck into the cork and the “plate” is ready.
14. Labels for signing varieties of seedlings from juice boxes
When buying seedlings of fruit, berry and ornamental crops at a gardening market or in a private nursery, we often think that we can easily remember which variety is which or hope for a “note” from the seller. As a result, trees and shrubs grow, notes are lost, and simple names are forgotten in a string of others.
We offer proven method saving the variety name directly on the growing seedling:
- cut the juice box into strips 3-4 cm wide and 10 cm long;
- make a hole on one side with an awl;
- We thread a string or wire 10-15 cm long into the hole (with its help we will tie the tag to one of the main branches);
- on the inner shiny side we make an inscription in block letters with a gel pen, pressing firmly on the surface so that the inscription is clearly readable;
- Even before planting, we screw the label onto the future stem branch.
In the future, it remains to monitor the condition of the inscriptions and, if necessary, update the labels.
15. Screen-fence made of pallets with greens and herbs
Hedges do not lose their relevance. And here is another option for a combined fence made from pallets. The resulting voids are filled with soil and green, spicy-tasting herbs and flowers are planted, which are well suited for vertical beds. As the plants grow, the windows in the structure will be closed and the screen will be completed.
Our selection simple solutions complex gardening tasks will help you plan your work more effectively and make your stay at the dacha more comfortable. Feel free to implement gardening life hacks on your property and remember that any idea can be improved. Join the ranks of inventors.
The country garden should not be large so that we have time to tend it and at the same time we do not want to curse it. The area of my garden is one and a half hundred square meters, and at the same time we practically do not buy vegetables. There are several ways that help reduce the area of the garden, but at the same time constantly receive good harvest. First, you need to clearly imagine what you and your family love. For example, we grow 45 potato bushes, and this lasts us for a whole year, because we eat little of them. But we eat a lot of salads, and green salads take up more than a third of our garden. We love radishes, and they grow in all our rows. It is very important to decide on your preferences.
Collard greens (aka kale).
And second. Years of hard work on myself allowed me to understand: if my beds are six meters long, this does not mean that I have to plant all six meters, for example, with parsley. The average Russian family has a maximum of one linear meter There will be enough parsley to provide for yourself, friends and relatives, since this plant grows again in the place where you cut it. The same applies to arugula. Stick an arugula bush into a flower garden, and it will be on your table all the time.
When you have made a list of what you need, ask yourself the question: “When will I be at the dacha?” If you have a vacation in July, then you do not need to sow cucumbers. They will turn into piglets - they will become huge, take up a lot of space and take a lot of energy. If you lock up your dacha on the first of September, then you don’t need to grow root parsley, parsnips or radishes. Their collection occurs at the end of September. If you have a large freezer, grow what you can freeze.
Eggplant.
You shouldn't try to solve all the mysteries of nature. It is enough to note to yourself that your growth is better, and not try to understand why this is so. I have a garden bed that never produces good zucchini. Carrots and salads grow beautifully there, two-kilogram escaroles grow there, but not a single normal zucchini has ever grown. At first I tried to understand what was going on. And then I decided: I’m just not going to plant zucchini here and that’s it.
Once you have calculated how many and what products you need, the fun begins. It's time to make plans for the beds. For what? To see what you planted in the beds last year and not plant the same plants in the same place. The logic is simple: the earth has everything that plants need. Leaf plants need nitrogen, and first of all they take nitrogen out of the soil. Fruit plants– cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplants use phosphorus the most, and root vegetables love potassium. Legumes are indifferent to soil fertility; on the contrary, they enrich it with nitrogen. This is why you shouldn’t grow the same vegetables in the garden for three years in a row. For example, if there were radishes and parsnips in the garden bed, then this year you can plant legumes in it so that the soil is restored.
Savoy cabbage.
The good thing about gardening is that it is creative. And here I begin the topic of combined plantings, dear to my heart. Combined planting is when you plant plants different groups on the same bed. Firstly, this will allow us to grow a lot of different things in a small area of the garden. And secondly, you will be able to harvest from the same bed from spring until late autumn. For example, early spring you grow cross lettuce, leaf lettuce, radishes and leaf mustard. Leave the center row empty. Later you can plant tomatoes there. By the time you eat all the salads, the tomatoes will have grown and there will be enough room for them, and in early September you can sow some corn salad there too. Here is another example of combined plantings: in the fall I planted garlic in three rows, and in the spring I sowed radishes between these rows. Once we pulled out the radishes, the garlic had plenty of room to grow. In August, I pulled out all the garlic and planted corn salad there. Another example: I planted cabbage in the center of the bed, and coriander and stalked celery along the edges. When we harvested the cabbage, spinach was sown in the center. Thus, from one bed you will get a triple harvest.
We hope that our tips will be useful to you. Have a good harvest!
We are greeted by the “BananaShow” channel and today we are waiting for 11 life hacks for the garden. Let's go! Video below.
Garden tools and other products in this Chinese store.
1 life hack: After working in the beds, our hands are dirty, but there is nowhere to wash them? Therefore, let’s take a large bottle of water with us to the garden bed and put it on some hill, making a hole. Now we have a washbasin, just open the lid slightly and you can wash your carrots, and when you close the water will stop.
Tip 2: Were we bitten by a mosquito or did we run through the bushes with nettles, after which a terrible itch appeared? Then mix water and soda in proportions of 1 to 3 to create a thick mass. Apply the mixture to the affected area, relief will follow in a few minutes! Well, what if special means If you don’t have it at hand, slightly heat the key, a couple of seconds is enough, and apply the key to the sore spot.
3 life hack for the garden: In order to get rid of ants without using pesticides, which can harm not only insects, we mix regular table sugar with baking soda in a 1 to 1 ratio and mix well. Sprinkle in areas inhabited by insects. The product is very effective.
Tip 4: If the handle on the bucket breaks, a rope will help us out. To do this, place a bucket in the center of the rope and tie a regular knot. Then we stretch the knot loop onto the walls of the bucket and tighten it. Then make a regular knot on top and get a strong, reliable handle!
Lifehack 5: People who have collected berries such as blueberries, cherries, plums, etc. know that it is almost impossible to wash their hands off their juice. And I don’t really want to walk around with black and blue hands. You will solve this problem with the help of lemon, which you rub on your hands. And if you don’t have lemon, take citric acid.
Life hack 6: If you are at the dacha, you can use the stem of a tomato or potato to clean your hands. Rub your hands well on the stems. Then wash your hands thoroughly with soap, as potato and tomato stems are poisonous!
7 trick for the garden: In order not to constantly collect gloves around the garden, we will make a hanger for them. To do this, take clothespins, which you glue with a glue gun or nail to some surface. So, you got a good hanger, the main thing here is to return the gloves to their place after working in the garden.
8 life hack: In order not to look for matches, put an iron coin in the box and use a magnet to attach them to a visible place. This way you will always know to find them.
Lifehack 9: In order to make a cool fire starter, you will need cotton pads and a candle. Soak the cotton pads well with wax until you cover the entire surface. Such cotton pads flare up well and burn like candles, only cooler and even strong wind unable to blow them out. Just be careful, otherwise your fingers will look like fried sausages. Well, if you blow sharply, the disk can be extinguished and left for the next kindling.
Tip 10: If you have 1 key for everyone, then make a hiding place. To do this, take a plastic container from Tic-Tac or vitamins and select it according to the size of the key. Throw the key into the box so as not to lose it and use a glue gun to glue some stone onto the lid to disguise and mark the location of the hiding place. Hide your hiding place somewhere. It would be great if you could throw stones nearby. Now the problem of one key is solved!
11 life hack: If you need to go to the garden, and you forgot to take rubber boots with you, 2 large bags will help you out. You just put them on your feet. The color of the package doesn't matter unless you're a fashionista, of course. Once dressed, you can go to the dacha without fear and your shoes will be protected from dirt.
Several small life hacks for the dacha, filmed on the “Mother and Son” channel.
For a cozy stay in garden house optimally hang roller blinds, then in the morning children and adults will be able to sleep longer. These differ in their ability to transmit light. For example, one of the shown roller blinds allows light to pass through, so there will not be complete darkness, while the other, adapted for complete darkening, gives a perfect darkening effect. In the same problem, the solution may be in the form of an ordinary curtain made of very dense material and it will also be dark.
To hide dishes under shelves from visibility, it is appropriate to use a curtain. Everything is neatly hidden.
Make an outdoor seat for your garden from a broken stool.
The wire spool will make a round table.
If there are extra scraps of timber left over, build a house for your child from them, he will be happy while you work or have fun in the country. 
A few more good advice for the dacha in this video
The Lifehack Today channel showed several useful tips for summer residents. IN summer time– the pleasure of going outside, being in nature or going to the country with your friends. IN total time for relaxation. And in this video, the author decided to demonstrate 10 life hacks for lovers of summer cottages and outdoor photography.
Often, someone who wants to light a fire puts down paper and tries to set it on fire. But if it is a thick magazine, then there is no oxygen access between the sheets, and it may burn poorly or go out completely. To prevent this from happening, tear the paper into pieces and remember. Now you don't have to worry about the fire.
Oh, how I want to come to the dacha and eat a delicious kebab. To make the kebab even tastier, you should use wood from fruit and berry trees. It's no secret that the wood you use in your fire affects the taste of the food you cook on it.
When you do get out into nature, you should not put food and things on the ground. Various insects can get into them. To avoid this, use an umbrella. Turn it over and add food. It's best to hang an umbrella.
There is also a cool way to cool the drink and prevent it from losing temperature. You need to tie a rope to the bottle and then lower it into the water. The temperature of the water will prevent the bottle from becoming warm and the drink will remain cool or completely cold.
Almost all garden tools are made of metal. To prevent damage to tools from rust, you should cover them with sand. This way they will last much longer, since the sand absorbs moisture.
If you need to quickly light a fire, dry pine wood is the best. Dry pine is considered the most flammable tree. Therefore, even beginners in this business will succeed. Cones are suitable for maintaining a fire and having good coals. You can also use pine bark.
If you are bitten by a mosquito, you can easily relieve the pain. Use soap. Wet it and then rub the bite area. After a short time, the itching will go away. In general, you can just be patient and not scratch, then everything will go away quickly.
A fire will help to keep mosquitoes away from you. Use green grass, leaves, fallen apples, all this will provoke smoke and mosquitoes will not approach you.
And the last life hack for today for the dacha. Packages of chips, crackers and similar products can be reused. To do this, you should wash them, dry them, and then you can safely put food there and take them to nature or to the country.
