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

[Bigmallly]

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

Who needs a car when you've got bike panniers............

[ladylottie]

I'm a skip diver too, same as Baldrick Am always on the look out for metal poles or posts and planks of wood. Anything in fact that looks remotely useful!

[ladylottie]

...squished a slug onto my forehead and wiped it into my hair ***shudders***

Its been hours since it happened, I've had a long, long, long hot soapy shower and I can still feel it ***shudders again***

I stood on one once on the stone floor of my kitchen in a previous house and couldn't think what I was slipping on I still can't believe the amount of mess it made -
Yuk ** mega shudder**

[veggiechicken]

I woke up once, feeling something on my face, brushed it away and it was a slug! I have no idea how it survived my night time ablutions - it must have been in my hair! Hate them...

[di]

...popped to a friends for coffee and leave with the contents of her Dyson

[Matt94]

got exited about buying peas - especially the ones that have flowers that aren't white.

[danniiangel]

'Acquired' old carpet from behind some bins at local block of flats to cover my plot.

My other half has just peered over my shoulder in horror - he already thinks I'm a womble!
btw - love this thread, I'm not alone in my wombling

[alldigging]

I've dragged slabs out of a skip.
Have had other people fetch me piles of pallets home on their roof rack.

Asked for mulch from people shredding bushes and got it delivered!


I have been thinking about collecting leaves on a lane near me every autumn for a few years. Maybe this year will be the year I get round to it.

[FruityLoop]

...read a thread about foraging for useful items from skips and laughed so hard I nearly wet myself - oooh quick where's the compost bin?!

I've read a selection of the above comments to my colleagues on my lunchbreak and they now think I'm crazy (they think you're all crazy too mind!).

A lady in my office brings toilet roll tubes in for me regularly and I recently spotted the cleaner with a load of empty cardboard boxes and took them home with me too. He looked at me like I was mad, and didn't look any less confused when I said they were for my allotment