Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: sloegin on July 14, 2010, 16:43
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Have been scouring ebay to find cheap containers to plant things in - found a lobster pot i might get. Anyone have any weird & wonderful suggestions??
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I've seen veg growing out of a toilet pan before today :lol:
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Yep i came across one on ebay... bizarre!
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When we refurbished the bathroom we got rid of the tiny bath (described as a 'Japanese Soaking Tub' by the Estate Agent :ohmy: :ohmy:). Our nosey neighbour saw it and had a word with the builders. Next thing I know I see 9 cabbages growing in our old bath!! Not bothered. She doesn't even like cabbages so we get half of them. Result. :D :D
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Our old toilet has been stolen twice from outside the house once from mum's then from ours. Has to be the oddest thing going!
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Ive used tyres before but nothing stranger than that that i can think of, I am boring :lol:
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Yeh Jamie that's what i mean, i'd love to find a scrapyard nearby and have a good rummage to see what i can find!
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I've got carrots in my Nan's old laundry basket :D
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I have a white loo pan stood by my greenhouse door. Its planted up with Iris reticulata and is the first thing to come into flower in the spring :)
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I've seen veg growing out of a toilet pan before today :lol:
I used to grow flowers in mine!!! :lol: :lol:
And I grow a few tomatoes in the base of an old swing bin
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Carrots in an old tin bath. Pansies in an old teapot.
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Builders rubble sacks make excellent raised beds. I have two on the go at the moment, filled with courgettes, red cabbage, a cauli or two and marigolds
I have two toilet cisterns filled with cosmos
I have a raised bed which is made from the top of an old pergola. We just took the top off, laid it on the floor and voile, one raised bed. It has onions in one side and strawbs on the other
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I've got all sorts, my partnets is a horder, chimney pots, toilet cistern, full size tin baths, sauce pans, metal log basket, section of clay sewerage pipe, the wire frame from a glass, cattle drinkers, table (glass missing) lined with chicken wire and roofing felt.
Lots of nice comments from people when they walk past the house, i've mixed the veg with pansies and nastursiums.
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(http://i866.photobucket.com/albums/ab224/Starlinglp/DSCF1951.jpg)
Carrots growing in a book case.
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Ooh looks good :)! My mum is getting rid of a chest of drawers i'm thinking raised beds perhaps?!
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Ooh looks good :)! My mum is getting rid of a chest of drawers i'm thinking raised beds perhaps?!
Or a cold frame? :nowink:
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Forgot about these ::)
Hydrangeas in old cattle water tanks :)
(http://i28.tinypic.com/xljakw.jpg)
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Oh Spana, they're gorgeous!
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parsnip in wellies, strawberries in an old freezer basket lined with bin bag.