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  • Tubworld progress - 2

    That's it, I'm stopping now!

    69 assorted containers with veg growing in them....and a veg plot...and a fruit border. Her indoors is fed up of hearing about what's growing so I thought I'd share some container ideas with you all.

    pic 1 shows early potatoes in a plastic wheelbarrow. These will be followed by self-blanching celery which is growing away nicely in 4 inch pots.

    pic 2 has some peas in an old toy box. Some of the pods are starting to swell now and when they've done I'll sow CCA lettuce in the box.

    pic 3 strawberries in an old tyre. Plenty of green fruit so all I need now is some sunshine.

    If you want to grow in containers don't limit yourself to shop-bought planters. Wooden boxes, plastic bags...as long as put drain holes in it you can use any container.

    We're soon to have a new bathroom suite fitted but OH is refusing point blank to let me have the old bath to fill with veggies
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    I love seeing things like this. I'm wondering what I've got lying about now that I could use

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    • #3
      You could turn it into a pond.....
      I think it'd be fun to have the loo somewhere outside all planted up.
      S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
      a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

      You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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      • #4
        I have a glass fish tank outside that could look lovely all planted up. The question is, how do I make drainage holes in it!?!?!?!?!

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        • #5
          Carefully ..........

          http://www.wikihow.com/Drill-Holes-Through-Glass
          Last edited by binley100; 01-06-2010, 05:49 PM.
          S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
          a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

          You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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          • #6
            Cut the side walls from tyre for more area, it takes 45 seconds, and line it with pond liner if you dont want toxins in your strawbs
            Save Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock. Coma and Painted Lady butterflies. Dont cut stinging nettles in summer.
            Only cut nettles grown in the shade.

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            • #7
              Thanks for that Sheikh.

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              • #8
                For any of you that drive up north, as you come into Shap on the A6 there's a garage on the left and they have an old Ford Escort with the bonnet removed and a profusion of flowers growing from it in summer. That's the most interesting container I've seen.

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