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    Here is a tip: My wife and I quite often buy tubs of fried rice from Tesco (but any supermarket will do). When finished with, they make lovely little propagators with lids. We have used them to start onion seeds and, more recently, cucumbers from seed. Every little helps! PS. Much snow in Hampshire this morning.

  • #2
    Good idea. (We use them for frozen fruit and inverted as small bee feeders.

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    • #3
      Gotta love re-cycling

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Madasafish View Post
        Good idea. (We use them for frozen fruit and inverted as small bee feeders.
        Bee feeders?

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        • #5
          Here is another one. Once all muffins are consumed (not long in this house!) you have a nice propagator with lid, measuring 20cm (w) x 15cm (d) x 12cm (h). Recycling - don't you just love it!Click image for larger version

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
            Bee feeders?
            AT times bees need to be fed: either fondant or sugar syrup.
            Fondant: cut small hole in lid, fondant inside, invert.
            Or sugar syrup, few small holes in lid, fill container with sugar syrup, invery over holes in top of hive..

            example
            https://tinyurl.com/y7lrb3sw

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            • #7
              These containers used for all sorts of salads etc.

              Be careful some don't like heat and will even distort in the dishwasher.

              I stupidly poured some hot oil into one and it collapsed.
              Riddlesdown (S Croydon)

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Madasafish View Post
                AT times bees need to be fed: either fondant or sugar syrup.
                Fondant: cut small hole in lid, fondant inside, invert.
                Or sugar syrup, few small holes in lid, fill container with sugar syrup, invery over holes in top of hive..

                example
                https://tinyurl.com/y7lrb3sw
                Will they be used if I don't keep bees?
                I have loads of scrap fondant ( I make cakes)
                #....just looked it up....Not fondant that is usd for cakes!!
                Last edited by Scarlet; 03-02-2019, 08:48 PM.

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                • #9
                  Here's another one!

                  The Profitier roll trays you get from "Morribogs" make exceptional propagators!

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                  I find them espeicialy useful for bridging the gap between germination out of the prop and under the lights upstairs as the are not getting that much of a fluctuation in soil temp

                  An half way house as it were!
                  "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"

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                  • #10
                    Loving it. Great ideas and great to re-use. Good for the environment.

                    Kind Regards.............Rob

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