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chili

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« on: May 21, 2011, 16:49 »
Bath in my allotment?
seen someone doing up their house and thay have thrown a bath out fairly modern white type thing, what if anything could be planted in it, and could you forsee any problems?

still no rain in canterbury, ground is blooming hard
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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2011, 17:05 »
Carrots - should be too high for carrot fly.
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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2011, 18:25 »
Like DD said, ideal for carrots, but when I used our old bath for carrots, I still put some mesh around on the inside of the bath, because I don't trust carrot fly at all!  :ohmy:
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« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2011, 18:43 »
Or, you could sink it into the ground, and make a pond, or fill it with ericaceous compost and grow blueberries in it  :)
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« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2011, 18:51 »
Or turn it upsidedown and use it to force rhubarb
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« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2011, 19:15 »
Or you could turn it into a wormery perhaps. :)
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« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2011, 20:21 »
A guy on ours used one for a fish pond; council inspector said no fish, bath to go.
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« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2011, 21:08 »
Guy with the end plot at our allotments has 'extended' by putting a row of baths along the edge. He has strawberries, broad beans, rhubarb and a variety of herbs.
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« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2011, 21:57 »
I've seen one used as a herb garden and it looked really pretty.
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2011, 02:59 »
I grow chinese artichokes in mine  :D 
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2011, 05:39 »
+1 for fish pond if council will allow. How about frogs?  :blush:
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« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2011, 07:07 »
I may be getting a new water butt, and hope to use the old bath as a nettle soaker, to get some good liquid feed going.

(It's just started to rain here...

Hellfire, what's that...)
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