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Morning all!
After a recent furniture delivery, we were left with a load of clear polythene bags (industrial binbag-sized, they'd been used to cover dining room chairs) which I kept to one side, "just in case".
The plastic seems fairly thick and strong - took me a bit of time (and a new stanley-knife blade) to get them all off the chairs - so I was wondering if I could use it in the garden, maybe to build a few things.
I was thinking of a coldframe-type contraption, and perhaps a phonebox-style tomato house too - I can get hold of odds and sods of timber and nails and staples to knock up a frame, thought I'd cut the polythene and staple to the frame and make it that way.
I'm fully aware that it's not horticultural-grade plastic - I'm only expecting it to last one or two years at most, but thought it could be a useful way to use up the polythene (which would probably just go for binbags otherwise) and give some of our plants a bit of a start.
Does anyone (with more experience on such things) have any advice here to give? Thoughts/comments/(gentle)ridicule all taken on board with thanks.
Jim
After a recent furniture delivery, we were left with a load of clear polythene bags (industrial binbag-sized, they'd been used to cover dining room chairs) which I kept to one side, "just in case".
The plastic seems fairly thick and strong - took me a bit of time (and a new stanley-knife blade) to get them all off the chairs - so I was wondering if I could use it in the garden, maybe to build a few things.
I was thinking of a coldframe-type contraption, and perhaps a phonebox-style tomato house too - I can get hold of odds and sods of timber and nails and staples to knock up a frame, thought I'd cut the polythene and staple to the frame and make it that way.
I'm fully aware that it's not horticultural-grade plastic - I'm only expecting it to last one or two years at most, but thought it could be a useful way to use up the polythene (which would probably just go for binbags otherwise) and give some of our plants a bit of a start.
Does anyone (with more experience on such things) have any advice here to give? Thoughts/comments/(gentle)ridicule all taken on board with thanks.
Jim
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