• Discover fun and easy DIY outdoor spring projects on a budget for yards and patios.

• Get started on your spring home projects with discount outdoor supplies from Ollie’s! 

When the weather starts to warm up, it gets everyone thinking about spending more time outdoors. For many, that means starting a vegetable garden, planting spring flowers, sprucing up the landscaping, or simply making your outdoor space more inviting. 

Whether you’ve got 10 acres or an apartment balcony, Ollie’s has some cheap outdoor spring project ideas to get you started!

Entryway Planters

Two planters filled with a variety of flowers, placed on either side of your front doorway, are the perfect way to make your home look inviting and quaint. Large planters can get pricey when shopping at big box retailers, but at Ollie’s, you can find large designer pots and cheap planters for much less than the competition for your DIY backyard projects on a budget. At these low prices, you can buy enough large planters to line a walkway or to place around a back porch!

We’ve also got a cheap hack for large planters. It can take a lot of dirt to fill a large planter, and some flowers and plants won’t send roots very deep. You can save money on bags of potting soil by halfway filling your large planters with recycled goods like empty water bottles or soda cans. We know that sounds weird, but it’ll actually help with drainage and reduce weight!

Patio Pond

Backyard koi ponds with trickling waterfalls are so serene and peaceful! Most of us love this scenery, but don’t want to spend the money to install one. For this simple outdoor DIY spring project, you’ll need a large, durable plastic planter with no holes in the bottom. For the rest of the supplies, grab a bag of fish tank pebbles, fake or real water plants, and a fish tank bubbler. 

You can get really creative with this budget yard project by adding underwater lights or hanging baskets of plants from the sides. Adding real live fish will help prevent mosquito larvae from taking hold in your pond. Freshwater snails help cut back on algae growth. 

Enhance Patio Lighting

As the evenings warm up and the days get longer, you’ll find yourself chilling outside with friends into the night. Hanging a few strings of fairy lights (or Christmas lights from your attic) or placing some solar-powered light stakes around your lawn can provide just enough lighting to create a magical atmosphere. Go with standard bulbs for this cheap outdoor spring project, or get extra whimsical with butterfly, bug, and flower-shaped lights.

Raised Garden Bed

A raised garden bed helps keep your garden tidy, and the soil you place in it will likely have better nutrients than your topsoil. To get this outdoor DIY spring project started, you could buy a raised garden bed kit or simply screw together four cedar boards, which are rot and pest-resistant. Never use treated lumber for vegetable beds to avoid chemical leakage.

Once you assemble your box shape, lay down either cardboard or weed screen to smother the grass before filling the box with potting soil. The taller your raised garden bed is, the more room for root growth your plants will have. Cover the top with more weed screen and cut holes to place your plants.To finish the look of this DIY outdoor spring project, grab a couple of bags of mulch to spread on top. 

Vertical Gardening

When space is limited, send your outdoor spring projects upwards instead of outwards! Think about attaching flower pots to fence posts and hanging baskets to porch railings. Hanging fabric pocket planters can be used to create a wall of living herbs. 

Utilize flowers that grow on vines and can cover a trellis (like morning glories). You can even apply vertical gardening to vegetables and fruits! Things that grow on vines, like cucumbers and even medium-sized melons, can be trained and reinforced to grow vertically on trellises and curved cattle fencing.

Spring Garden Decor

In some areas of the country, it can take weeks into spring before plants start sprouting outdoors. While we’re getting excited for the impending heat waves, you can get your back porch or patio looking good with some fresh spring decorations and cheap patio decor ideas. We’re talking whimsical windchimes, garden flags, ceramic garden decorations, solar lights, new outdoor throw pillows, and other affordable outdoor decor!

Bird Feeders and Bird Houses