Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Design and Construction => Topic started by: TerryB on August 19, 2011, 12:41
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I had to make a compost heap quickly, so cut the bottom of a builders bag (1tonne type) into a flap, turned the bag upside down and drove a stakes at each corner into the ground. Flap forms a lid and I'm hoping that next year I can just pull the bag up leaving the compost on the ground. If bag will not come up I can just cut the bag away.
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Good idea, you can let us know next year how it went. :)
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I've been using them for years but i leave the bottom in, just stick a garden fork into the bottom a few times and i dont bother with the corner posts. It works really well and looks quite tidy. :)
I also use them for leaf mould. I try and fill 4 every year then tip two in together after a year. Makes wonderful stuff. :happy:
They are so useful. I've cut some up and made smaller bags for garden rubbish, the handles are really strong. I made 6 sand bags with them to put around the base of the church Christmas tree to hold it steady and every year i pack straw around our gunneras and pull the upside down bags over the crowns.
Down side is they b***er up a lot of needles on the sewing machine :D
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Down side is they b***er up a lot of needles on the sewing machine :D
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Have you tried using a stapler? they will go rusty but should hold for some time.
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Or use a wool bag needle and do it by hand. :)
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Have you tried using a stapler? they will go rusty but should hold for some time.
That is a good idea and much quicker than sewing :D Thanks I'm going to try that . :happy:
Now theres an idea for a competition :)' What have you made from a builders bag ' ;) ::) all answers must be clean :D
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Or use a wool bag needle and do it by hand. :)
What's a wool bag needle like Argyllie ?
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That's what I call the large curved needles that you sow thick tapestry up with :)
don't know if that's what Lorna means though, but they would do the trick.
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It is indeed one of those, a widely used thing where sheep shearing and wool collecting is practised. I would have thoguht they were readily available in most parts of the country(side).
(http://www.hornershearing.com/acatalog/sackneedle.jpg)
:)
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That is also considered a type of upholstery needle, which might direct you to the right section for finding that particular needle.
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I've got one of those :D
It's ancient, must be Victorian. I'll dig it out and put it on stand by :D