Garden and Yard Trash Bag Holder - DIY - Part 2

In part 1 of this article, I discussed the procedures to make a sturdy and functional yet inexpensive garden and yard trash bag holder. This homemade project makes use of a few simple items like an old plastic stool, four adhesive hooks and the disposable garbage bag.

There are two types of disposable garbage bags discussed for this garden and yard trash bag holder: those that have flaps or cross-ties that allow you to close and tie the opening, and those bags that don't have flaps. These will be discussed briefly.

This post continues the steps enumerated in part 1.

Garden and Yard Trash Bag Holder - DIY

It seems that there will be too much garden and yard waste or trash. No matter how we practice composting or burning using my homemade garden trash incinerator, there will always be extra yard trash to handle. This is especially during the rainy season when the incinerator gets out of commission since everything is wet and won't burn.

In this situation, we have no choice but to bag leaves, flowers and twigs for the garbage haulers to pick up. That is why disposable garbage bags are a huge convenience for gardening also. Unlike indoors, we don't use a trash bin for the garden and the yard. Instead, we use a trash bag holder to hold the disposable trash bag.

Garden Waste Incinerator with Grate

(This is the continuation of Part 2)

A grate is defined as "a frame of iron bars to hold a fire". In the garden and yard incinerator that I built, there was no grate. The garden waste twigs and branches held up the dried foliage that was to be burned. That is until the branches and twigs burned completely and the burning material start to fall into the incinerator bottom. I then needed to use a stick or rod to prop up the burning garden waste up so as not to suffocate the fire.

This is where an improvised grate will help hold up the burning material so it does not collapse and fall into the pit below. An improvised grate for this garden and yard waste incinerator is quite easy to do. You only need a piece of steel matting material to cut, bend and form. Actually, any scrap piece of metal that resembles some kind of a grill will do.

Yard Trash Incinerator with Air Vents

(This is the continuation of Part 1)

In every construction job, there's always some scrap left behind by workers. Such happened right after we had our garden pergola and the garden gate arch fabricated. Some of the scrap metal have been used to make a rain water barrel platform to elevate the rain barrel. But still a piece of tubular metal pipe scrap remained. This pipe was a little over 4 feet.

Rather than still keep this piece of scrap to rust and rot away somewhere outside the house, I thought of utilizing the scrap piece for raising our garden and yard waste incinerator off the ground. Doing so, will provide air vents when yard trash is being burned, thus facilitating the incineration.

Garden and Yard Waste DIY Incinerator

Having plenty of plants and trees in and around the garden has its drawback sometimes. Disposing garden and yard waste for instance can become an occasional problem. By garden and yard waste, I'm referring to dried leaves, dead plants and cut foliage as a result of pruning or trimming.

Now there's no problem if there's only a little garden waste for disposal. For this, I put all garden rubbish inside a plastic bag and the neighborhood garbage collectors would haul it away. I didn't even have problems with disposing thorny branches. As long as it isn't a lot and it's neatly and properly bundled, then the garden trash will be collected by the garbage haulers.