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Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: hayles62 on January 13, 2007, 07:51

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: hayles62 on January 13, 2007, 07:51

Make lovely little air pockets in the compost bin and go towards you brown content.

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: muntjac on January 13, 2007, 11:50

also make lovelt pots for sowing beans in ,and stuff them with a little sawdust seal with wax then top up with more sawdust or flakes . pour a little white spirit in before you pour in wax to seal top ,,,,,, plastic airtight bag ,you got firelighters, no sawdust to chuck away ,,,, now thats frugal hehehe :wink:

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: silver8 on January 18, 2007, 14:51

Ive got access to a much wider and longer toilet roll holders. What i thought I do with them, as the soil on the lottie tends to be on the heavy side , is to partly put them in the ground and then fill them with fine compost for carrots.Might also help to keep the carrot fly off.Will this work?

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: muntjac on January 18, 2007, 15:07

dont see why not matey, you can try it and report back on it  :wink:

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: noshed on January 18, 2007, 22:49

You order stuff for the elephant lavs I suppose - Silver8?

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: GrannieAnnie on January 19, 2007, 21:03

How tall are they Silver?  They reckon its gotta be over 2ft to fool the carrot fly.

you'd have some nice long carrots wouldn't you though????

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: DD. on January 20, 2007, 08:03

I used toilet roll middles to grow my sweetcorn in 2 years back. I got a load of little fungi growing on them & only about 25% gemination!

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: muntjac on January 20, 2007, 10:55

toilet rolls if they get to wet willl rot and the milky mould takes ya plants as well mate

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: ziggywigs on January 20, 2007, 16:17

Apparently the mould comes from the glue on the rolls.  I use the paper pots as they are quick and simple to make.  The loo rolls i use for my leeks to keep the ground from backfilling too quickly.

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: Gwiz on January 21, 2007, 09:18

stood upright in a seed tray, filled with compost, and parsnips sown in them in the greehouse.
better germination than at the lottie ( well, for me anyway )
just plant the whole thing in the ground when its time.
lurvlly :D

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: Trillium on February 13, 2007, 15:49

If you water only from the bottom, sparingly and never ever the top, the rolls last long enough - without fungi- until they're planted into the ground, up to the very top. Otherwise, more fungus starts up outside.

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: muntjac on February 13, 2007, 19:25

flatten them both ways .fold and then fold again splitting the distance , they become square and fit lovley in a tray  :wink:

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: noshed on February 13, 2007, 23:18

That's right - took me ages to realise that. Much easier to collect as well.

Title: Cardboard tissue and foil roll middles.
Post by: muntjac on February 13, 2007, 23:19

im sure someone on here told me that cos i didnt know that lolo ,,, :lol:  :wink: