I need an enthusiast to help me create a garden product!

Louisa, do you already have a product in mind, or are you starting from scratch? Are you looking to create something revolutionary, or redesign/improve an existing tool that we are all probably already using?

Louisa, is that your whole brief, or is there more to it?

We'll throw some ideas at yer, but give us more to go on.

What about -
Something for people with ground floor flats or bungalows, so that they can pump water from baths/showers/washine machine outlets into a water butt, for use on the garden? (Ground floor bathrooms etc cannot use gravity to get the water from bath to butt, so perhaps a battery pump with a solar panel for recharging the batteries?)

or perhaps -

Something to encourage communal composting in blocks of flats with shared gardens. Perhaps something built-in to the design of the building - a communal chute on each floor for people to drop their compostable kitchen waste into? Or a 'waste disposal unit' in each kitchen sink, that shreds compostible waste & carries it down to a communal compost bin? Or, if that's going a bit too far, then perhaps a kitchen bin with a tight-fitting lid & compostible liners, that's fly-proof (& smell-proof) to store fruit & veg peelings in, prior to the owners taking them to the compost bin. Would be useful for people who have a long walk to the compost bin (EG they're in a block of flats) & don't want to walk down there every time they use a tea-bag, so could keep the waste in their kitchens a bit longer without it smelling & attracting flies. (Or has this already been invented?!)

Or perhaps -

various-sized containers, ready-filled with decent compost, delivered to your door, perhaps along with seeds & growing instructions? I realise this isn't a 'new product', more of a 'service', but I'm thinking here that some people just aren't sure where to start & just need an initial helping hand to get them going!

Any good? Is this the kind of thing you're looking for, Louisa?

cheers
B.

Hello Louisa, i have turned my lottie over to raised beds which i think would easily be managed in an urban garden you can check out my albums if you wish. And good luck with your project.

Welcome to the Vine Louisa

I can talk from the point of building a garden in a short time, due to living in Military Quarters. I have moved seven times in 16 years of marriage to locations from Wales, Edinburgh, Peterhead, Hampshire, North West London, Oxfordshire.

Each time I build a garden (very quickly) that contains veg, annuals, perennials, shrubs and even the odd tree - yes I am permantely broke but happy