What can I use this for?

[veggiechicken]

Just found a soft drinks crate washed in on the tide. Its 12" x 15" x 13"h and divided into 12 sections. Suggestions needed for alternative uses please. These are mine, so far,
1. storing flower pots, stacked in size (but it will only take small round or square pots)
2. growing 12 perfect parsnips, one in each section
3. a mini square foot bed
4. for bottles (too obvious).
What do you suggest (and throwing it back in the sea or binning it is not an option!).

[Feral007]

Not sure VC but I have two cardboard shapes that have plug like bottoms in them, came with the printer I think. I'm going to plant out seeds in them. Then since they are cardboard I might even chop the bottoms off and plant them in the garden and let the sides rot off! Course, your plastic won't rot.

[RedThorn]

use in your forest stream for holding water chestnuts...

[veggiechicken]

So far, the only ideas have come from Darn Under! Thanks both.
RT, you may have something there. Not in the stream but perhaps in the water butt fed planting idea that I'm still working on

[Feral007]

Yeah we're big on what to do with free things darn here

[Thelma Sanders]

line each space with plasic and you have deep root trainers. Pull the placcy up to lift the plants?

[bearded bloke]

Now that is a nice crate VC,if you want your arm ripped off,offer it to a plasterer

[zazen999]

Salad bar for me.

[Peas'n'Kews]

How about putting it off the ground, on its side, and using it to dry yer onions?? Get a decent draft through and it would also keep 'em out of the rain....

[bearded bloke]

Whoops forgot to add they use crates as "hop-up's"

You could of course keep it & just screw a piece of plywood to the bottom & you have a handy lightweight rot proof garden hop-up/stool

[Bren In Pots]

You could of course keep it & just screw a piece of plywood to the bottom & you have a handy lightweight rot proof garden hop-up/stool

Snap that's what I was going to post.

[veggiechicken]

Now that is a nice crate VC,if you want your arm ripped off,offer it to a plasterer

Whoops forgot to add they use crates as "hop-up's"
You could of course keep it & just screw a piece of plywood to the bottom & you have a handy lightweight rot proof garden hop-up/stool

So a plasterer only wants it to stand on? Not for some technical plastering reason?
I've just stood on it, and it didn't collapse - so that's a positive.... but I already have one of those cheapo plastic stools from LITL that I use in the garden......

[veggiechicken]

Salad bar for me.

Is that growing a variety of salad leaves in it Zaz, or something more complicated that I don't understand

[bearded bloke]

So a plasterer only wants it to stand on? Not for some technical plastering reason?

No technical reason VC,but decent strong plastic crates are getting harder to find as the years go by.

[Sarico]

in my garden i would use to put 12 plastic bottle as drip feed for 12 pots. 12 of my square pots around and in the middle that crate...but maybe next year considered that is always rain this one