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moongoddess

Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 673

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 06 7:38 am Post subject: pots for growing crops
Dustbins for rhubarb, car tyres for potatoes, plastic crates from supermarkets.................. What other original and unique ideas have you utilised or thought about? mg x

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 06 7:43 am Post subject:

I have been made to throw them out as I cannot fit them in this year - but popcorn boxes to start of your corn in!

Old metal colanders and sieves to do lettuce and herbs. Large sacks from animal feed hidden inside slightly decrepit wicker log baskets that someone had put out for the bins.

Polystyrene fish boxes - I have a huge one which I might add a growbag to - the smell does go after several months

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 06 8:18 am Post subject:
5 litre olive oil tins for carrots.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 06 9:32 am Post subject:
Not a container, but I'm currently using an old car dog guard as a pea support (well it would be supporting the peas if they had grown that far, but you know what I mean).

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 06 8:30 pm Post subject:
washing machine drums - I have 2 one with a gooseberry bush in and one for runner beans. Also have the bottom half of an old hoover as a pot and last year used an ol dishwasher case to grow carrots in

oddballdave

Joined: 08 Mar 2006
Posts: 259
Location: Telford, Shropshire

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 06 9:48 pm Post subject:
Old motorcycle helmets, with the lining ripped out as hanging baskets.

Bog Spavin

Joined: 25 May 2006
Posts: 362
Location: North Yorkshire

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 06 1:16 pm Post subject:
I was wondering today about making raised beds out of those plastic things that slot together to chuck bricks down into skips on building sites.

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 06 7:13 pm Post subject:

oddballdave wrote:

Old motorcycle helmets, with the lining ripped out as hanging baskets.

What a cool idea!

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Posts: 4148
Location: Comfortably Wet Southport

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 06 7:07 pm Post subject: Pots for Growing plants in.

Hows this for a lateral thought. Grow plants in plant pots. Plants, as supplied by nurseries are grown in big strong plastic pots, up to 70 litres in size. A 2 metre tall Leylandii will probably come in a 20 litre pot. Phone your local landscape gardener and ask if he's got any pots to get rid of. My lettuces are in 7.5 and 10l pots, tomatoes, peppers and cues in 15l pots, 20l is a good size for a spud.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Wed Jun 21, 06 8:31 pm Post subject:
About half my veg plot consists of polystyrene boxes that meat comes in - ask a local restaurant, or fish market (or order your meat in bulk!)

James

Joined: 11 Jan 2006
Posts: 2866
Location: York

Posted: Thu Jun 22, 06 1:27 pm Post subject:
I take old flip top bins out of skips & cut the base off around 1 foot up. This gives a square container with roughly 2 gallon volume, very good for cherry tomatoes & other fast growing annuals. The top half (now a square tube) I use as a potato barrel- harvesting is easy by just sharply pulling the tube upwards- spuds harvested out of the bottom.

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