[Snap Dragon]

... for use at the allotment?

I'm doing the usual - saving yogurt pots, and fruit containers to sow seeds in and coke bottles for mini propergators.  

Hubby moans everytime he tries to throw something out and I yell out 'leave it - I'm saving that for the lottie!!!'  :evil:

I just wondered what sort of things everyone else reuses on their plots? :idea:

[Grif]

... for use at the allotment?

I'm doing the usual - saving yogurt pots, and fruit containers to sow seeds in and coke bottles for mini propergators.  

Hubby moans everytime he tries to throw something out and I yell out 'leave it - I'm saving that for the lottie!!!'  :evil:

I just wondered what sort of things everyone else reuses on their plots? :idea:

Hi,

Another idea for the coke bottles is drill a hole n the bottom, cut some flaps (about 4 or 5) longways in the side and bend them out at 90 deg, put them on a small cane. Because they spin in the breeze they scare the birds brilliantly. Got the idea from a book called 'Diggers Diary'

Grif

[Snap Dragon]

Nice idea.... My girls would love to make some of these!!! Thanks

Better than my idea of using hubbys Shania Twain CD's!!!  

[SnooziSuzi]

Oh I don't know - I'm sure the Shania Twain CD's would sound much better tinkling in the breeze!  

I save the plastic trays that meat tends to come in from the supermarket to use as seed trays

[Snap Dragon]

And toilet roll inserts for sweet peas.
It's like cardboard tube city in my house!!!

[sweet nasturtium]

I save an enormous amount of milk bottles which I use as mini propagators (cut off the bottom, the top and through the handle, stick a cane through the handle to stop it blustering about).   To store them i thread them through a long piece of string.  

People must think I'm completely barking.  But funnily enough, I feel perfectly safe safe to confess my peculiarities on here.

[mashauk]

Never mind saving stuff, I raid people's recycling boxes for plastic & glass bottles, goodness knows what my neighbours think of me!

[sweet nasturtium]

A man came to the front door today and offered to take some old naily wood out of the front garden.  I can't believe I let him take it.  However I wouldn't let him take the bit of guttering that we really don't need... - far too useful.

[GrannieAnnie]

If we get a lot of rain during the summer, I've got about 60 odd large plastic milk bottles that I fill from the overflowing water butts which gives me more room for a drop more water!  I store them in the greenhouse under the staging till needed in times of drought!

[Ruby Red]

And toilet roll inserts for sweet peas.
It's like cardboard tube city in my house!!!

 
   
   And Broad Beans

[Grif]

And toilet roll inserts for sweet peas.
It's like cardboard tube city in my house!!!

 
   
   And Broad Beans

Egg boxes for chitting spuds

Grif

[Snap Dragon]

I'm getting some good ideas here!!!  :idea:

Hubby can see me turning into Steptoe before his very eyes!  

[WG.]

I have literally thousands of 5 litre ice cream tubs if anyone would like some.  Courier would be the only viable means to send them and you'd have to pay for that.  £10/12 would ship a heckuva lot though - enough to share.  Great for seedlings and large enough to finish quite a few types of crops.

PM me if you are interested.

[Selkie]

I have literally thousands of 5 litre ice cream tubs

Am heading off to deepest darkest Scotland armed with a bowl and a spoon

[WG.]

EMPTY ones  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: