Before I had a plot I never would have...

[Glutton4...]

I have developed a dreadful skip dipping habit. Last week I had 2 hangling baskets, a van full of wood, a pair of welly shoes IN MY SIZE!, half a roll of horticultural fleece, some concrete gravel, a camping stool, a bucket, some branches for the chicken run...think that is the lot! For now!

Have you got a plot down at Dale Farm!?

[baldrick]

Have you got a plot down at Dale Farm!?

No. Dale farm residents wouldnt be seen dead on my plot!

[taff]

skiphunting in wreham sounds good, it's pretty pants in swindon, too many bricks....

[salome2001]

On my way to a hospital appt this week I clocked two wooden pallets near a bin... still there on my return so I rang the bell and asked if I could take them away... which I did- narrowly evading (by 60 seconds) the parking police, as I loaded them in to my car on double yellows...
Been looking to get a compost bin started...

[Jelliebabe]

.......asked the cafe at work to save me the grounds from the expresso machine or hunted down pallets and any other useful bits of wood .

This week i have mostly been pinching, coffee grounds, pallets and cardboard from work! I get everyones jars and loo rolls... I Have also got the grounds people on my business park to leave me bags of leaves out!

[susieq100]

Beg all the cardboard boxes from work; scrounged drive paving bricks from next door.
I would never have knocked on random doors where there are skips in the drive and begged stuff - I think having an allotment gives you 'nerve' or 'brass neck' or whatever you want to call it! ;-)

[Piggle]

got excited about gardening tools...... I think I am slightly obsessesed with wooden handled tools.

[binley100]

....I would never have been brave enough to speak up in front of a big meeting, put together a recipe book , write into a magazine or newspaper, be interviewed on the radio , chat to and meet people I'd never met before on t'internet and most importantly I certainly wouldn't have travelled to another country to meet up with people I'd only spoken to on a forum before ...........amazing when I look back on it

[northepaul]

The people I work with already think I'm weird cos I knew what Hummous was, AND I actually eat it (not burger and chips...cant be normal) and I dont like Peter Andre....(you get the picture) so I'll probably get carted away if I start asking for their toilet roll holders!!

[StephenH]

...considered using a polytunnel, but since my lotty came with one, I've got one anyway, and am now considering what to grow in it.

[BroadRipple]

1. become so obsessed with compost that I go a-gathering dustballs from behind the furniture as a sort of, weird, scary even, TREAT to myself...and washing-machine lint...and my family's hair in plugholes, mmm yes lovely.
2. taken empty loo rolls from work
3. befriended the local Pret a Manger and regularly taken home huge bags of coffee grounds with a joyous foraging smile on my face and a weird smell of espresso following closely behind
4. seriously considered using an abandoned primrose-yellow toilet bowl as a plant container
5. staying with the senior BroadRipples this weekend have filled a vast bin bag with leaves to drive 60 miles home with for leaf mould
6. seen our guinea-pigs' poo as valuable and precious jewels.
7. communed on the interweave with complete strangers, many of whom I now regard as dear friends, about everything from fruit leather flavours and tromboncino size to, er, the tragedies of my cold frame.
8. note to self - urgently seek rehab for all of above. you sound like a weirdo.

[Two_Sheds]

before I got my plot I would never have investigated liquid gold. Very good for the garden (used fresh, not stewed), great for the compost heap, and you save £££s on flush water

I don't, however, collect it from skips, neighbours, or carry it round in my car

[BroadRipple]

oh yes. and i'd never have wee-ed in a paper cup and rushed out with it to my compost bin.
[can't believe i'm even admitting to this]

[binley100]

I use a bucket I'd probably miss a cup..........

[Newton]

Bought more veg gardening books than cookery books.......