[Thephoenix572]

Doing my recycling now, saving toilet roll tubes for parsnips, pop bottles for sweetcorn. Is there anything else I can be saving and what can they be used for?

[mumofstig]

I save large meat trays for pot saucers and mushroom boxes for seed trays - just make a few holes in the bottom if they have none. The larger mushroom trays are good for small quantities of leeks or to grow salads in 

[Spana]

You should come and have a look in my greenhouse

I use loads of chuckaway stuff.

I have an old stainless steel sink and draining board set up between two benches,put compost in the sink and its great for potting up.
I use pop bottles for lots of things, cut into three, top part over pots of seeds, middle bit used as slug  collars when planting out  and bottom bit as pot stand. But these have lots of uses

Lots of drawers from old fridges, really useful to stand pots of seeds or cuttings in with a bit of glass or plastic over.
 
I could go on all day.

[mumofstig]

ooh I forgot - I cut the bigger plastic milk bottles in half, and use the bottoms as pots 9 or 12 depending on size, sit nicely in a mushroom box for the final potting on of toms before they get planted out

[Spana]

I did the same mum

 I found a big bag of old wooden spoons and spatulas dumped, must have been from an hotel.  I use these as row markers, i write on the flat bit.

[brown thumb]

cabbage collars cut from margarine tubs / ice cream tubs and   both can be used as planters  or  drip  trays  to hold toilet roll inners  and paper pots 

[Brambles]

I usually use my loo roll "innards" to plant seeds in...   This year I saved them all year.... To save space I folded them flat and stored them in boxes...   Today, I got them out to plant up my runner beans and french beans...   I refolded them the opposite way making a square planter...  12 of these fit exactly into an empty Tesco ice cream tub... this makes so much more space in my greenhouse.. It doesn't take much to make me a very happy bunny 

[Brambles]

Oh... and the ice cream tub lids can be cut into many plant lables and written up with a permanent pen...

[grinling]

milk containers... cut off half and thread handles through cane. Use as plant pot holder.
Cereal wax packet for jam circle.

[Elaine G]

Old spoons and chopsticks are good for helping seedlings out of trays and into pots.
If you stay in a hotel always take home the shower cap - to cover trays while seeds germinate.
The top half of a softner bottle makes a good funnel for filling loo rolls.
I have been trying to get my hands on a venitian blind to cut up for row markers on the plot, but no luck yet.
And if you see any windows being thrown out, thats the start of a cold frame 

Elaine

[Markw]

If you can get hold of the large plastic drinking water bottles from the drinking water machine. they are very handy.

[Yorkie]

If you can get hold of the large plastic drinking water bottles from the drinking water machine. they are very handy.

True - unfortunately there's a big deposit on them so they don't come free very often 

[VegGirl7]

in addition to what others have said, I keep glass jars in anticipation of all the jam/sauces we'll be making and wine bottles that had corks in for my homebrew 

I have an old stainless steel sink and draining board set up between two benches,put compost in the sink and its great for potting up.

really like that Idea, Spana - we're planning on a new kitchen sink soon so will have one of these going spare!

I could really do with an extra room in the house to store all the things that 'could come in handy' someday...  at least I have an allotment to take all (well most) of it now