best use for this please....

thanks, just really need to get it done so we can use it, but it wont stop raining
im going to use it for peas this year and see how they get on as i have the fence for support and shelter.  they need to be in it now cos the first lot are about 5'' and sitting in the garage.
hubby was worried that some sealers may not be so good for the plants like creosote, but fence paint stuff is much cheaper anyway

Good point about 'pill bugs', Trillium.  Are they what we would call wood lice?

Yes, they're the same thing, just a different name over here. Also called sow bugs.

Yesterday I picked up a container on my concrete porch and about 50 of the things ran off 

My OH brought back lots of boxes like the one in the picture as well from where he last worked - we now have lots of raised beds and our alloty neighbour (the nice ones) are keeping theirs to grow strawberries in