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My neighbour had dropped in to see me this morning and while having a cup of coffee he remarked that he needed to buy a new hose as the one he has is perishing from sunlight and being dragged about the garden and as I am changing mine he is away with a replacement hose, and me I am getting a plastic dustbin lid from him to make a small pond, as I want to try and encourage some frogs in the garden, so both of us received something we wanted and both of us got rid of something that would have sat about the garden unused or have been binned
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it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbers
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I totally agree with recycling and it upsets me to see things being dumped at the local council tip. So much of it could be repurposed and/or recycled. Years ago I lived in the Netherlands and the last Wednesday night every month you put out your old furniture etc to be collected the next morning.....if it was still there......as it was available to whoever wanted it if they took it before the council wagon.
Having said all this if we had a similar system here I wouldn't be able to get through the front door as my husband is both a magpie and a hoarder and finds other peoples (utter) rubbish irresistible. I daren't let him go to auctions or car boot sales. -
I love to reuse things its great and free which is even better
Plot neighbours and I have used wooden pallets, floorboards, glass, doors, bedframes (not me my neighbour), dustbins, containers, bbq legs to hold back hosepipes along fences, old tools, rusty wheelbarrows, old bricks anything really. There is always a use for something. Councils in this country are pretty behind compared to what is recycled in other countries, a lot of it is recyclable but the councils won't take it i.e different types of recyclable plastics, only select grades are recycled, not all the recyclable grades.
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Most of the "stuff" in my garden (and house) is recycled/scrounged!! Freecycle is great as it enables you to try out an idea without spending money (bet you're interested now, rary).
I made a "Raised bed" from a metal bedframe; covering the base with liner, edging the sides with odd planks, filling it with compost and grew strawberries in it. A proper "raised bed" up on legs.
There's a thread somewhere about reusing a trampoline frame. I still have it, surrounding an oak tree, with seats that let you recline against the trunk.
I have a mirror set into the hedge that makes you think its a door into next door's garden.Comment
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I have made use of a trampoline frame off freecycle as a frame for netting to protect my brassicas from pesky flipping pigeons...
https://youtu.be/sj6-LG5VpGkLast edited by Paulie; 03-07-2019, 09:19 PM.Comment
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An old hose can be cut up into suitable sizes and with wire inserted to keep it rigid can be used to make circular plant supports. Brilliant for attaching to canes and I use with ny exhibition onions.
On top of the canes I use empty 500ml plastic water bottles to save my eyes being damaged.Comment
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That reminds me I have an old spade shaft with the tapered metal bit from above the blade which I use as a dibber. D shaped handle and a decent length of shaft .Originally posted by Snoop Puss View PostLast edited by Aberdeenplotter; 04-07-2019, 04:58 AM.Comment
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Originally posted by Aberdeenplotter View Post
When I DID have a dibber I could never find it when I needed it.
I usually had to improvise and use the wrong end of a brush.
So now I don't even bother looking for it.
If I ever do find it I will nail it to the shed wall.
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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I've made comfy handles for buckets/pots by threading wire/string through pieces of hosepipe.Originally posted by Aberdeenplotter View Post
Put bits of hose on the waterbutt taps to point into watering cans for less splashing.
Old wooden door knobs, with a hole in the bottom for a screw, fit on top of canes in the GH for eye protection.Comment
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All my cold frames and outdoor tables are cobbled together from bits Mr Snoop picks up at the tip.
Love the hosepipe ideas. Thanks.Comment
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VC I have been Freecycling long before the word was thought ofOriginally posted by veggiechicken View Post
And I think AP put his post about reusing a water hose just to try and upset me
Last edited by rary; 04-07-2019, 09:48 AM.it may be a struggle to reach the top, but once your over the hill your problems start.
Member of the Nutters Club but I think I am just there to make up the numbersComment
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Reuse again and again.
One cold frame is recycled pallet planks sides with the glass doors of Display cabinet joined together on top. I did buy the heavyweight hinges because the used ones I had looked too puny.
The other cold frame is the two sliding doors from my neighbours porch when she had it modernised last year. They sit in an 'A' shape, the ends are just two panes of class held in place with a stick pushed in the ground.
Everything here apart from the water butts is made by recycling pallets: so shed, fruit tree screen, raised bad, compost bin.
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You've been doing most things longer than anyone else because you're so much older than the rest of us.Originally posted by rary View PostVC I have been Freecycling long before the word was thought of
Vacuum cleaner pipes and flexible hoses are perfect for joining the guttering on both side of the GH so that it can share a water butt/recycled blue barrel.
The flexible hoses can go round corners that would otherwise need multiple connectors.Last edited by veggiechicken; 04-07-2019, 01:40 PM.Comment
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Raised beds made from pallet collars.
Strawberry hangers made from 4 litre plastic milk bottles hung from the bars from a friend's broken swing set.
Small pallets from a printer delivery at work to be used as tall tool storage in the currently mythical shed.
The kids' juice bottles are cane toppers - tie something flappy around them and they make good bird scarers, too, knocking against the cane and moving around.
Builders' bags to grow squash in.
Compost sacks as anti-weed mulches and bed warmers.
Multiple bits of rusty metal dug up from the plot weight down fleece and black plastic, and I use one particular sharp, pointy one as a hole borer for plant stakes etc.
I'm growing out my willow den to generate cuttings to make a willow arch... does that count?
The broken pieces of old cheapy metal arches make excellent plot markers, hose guides and bean supports.
It's all good.Comment
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