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Post by Chuckles on Feb 15, 2015 17:54:38 GMT
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Post by Jasmine on Feb 15, 2015 18:01:25 GMT
Very clever Missy! Good way of keeping little tomatoes watered properly Chuckles. We had a recycled bottle greenhouse at one of my old schools. |
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Post by Missredhead on Feb 15, 2015 19:51:12 GMT
i tried to upright it but it kept coming up sideways...thank you RF
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 16, 2015 7:32:29 GMT
There are some great ideas on how to use the bottles are'nt there. Missredhead do you have a bottle top on yours like the one in Chuckles picture? Was it difficult to put the hole into it? |
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Post by Missredhead on Feb 16, 2015 17:02:44 GMT
no LG I took the top off as I couldnt make a hole in it..
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 16, 2015 21:58:48 GMT
no LG I took the top off as I couldnt make a hole in it.. , Missredhead, Ladygardener, Get a piece of wood and place the lid top side down on it then hammer a nail through it to make a hole Missy  |
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Post by Missredhead on Feb 19, 2015 20:19:41 GMT
I never thought of that.....  |
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Post by Chuckles on Feb 20, 2015 19:58:30 GMT
I never thought of that..... I'm the same with things sometimes Missy, we tend to over think and miss what is a really simple solution  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Jun 12, 2015 7:46:16 GMT
Chuckles, Jasmine, Missredhead, Ladygardener, Tig, Jilly, BarbaraOur Markise has problems (gas thingy is on the blink) and we are only allowed to let it out halfway which means as we are on the South side that it gets really really hot (60degC) if the weather is right - far too hot for us these days...we had a couple of simple, cheapy umbrellas and a water foot so we decided to use that and move it around to stop most of the sun getting in....mmmh - the foot was leaky (we have had it years an the plastic is done for now) so OH came up with this idea... Across the road they are building a garage and using cement so after sorting through our old pots he found one that we didn't need any more and asked them if he could have a little cement...  ...then after two days it was dry and we could put the umbrella on.  Not soopa doopa but certainly ideal for us at the moment and works just as well as an expensive foot, especially as we have it on a wheels even - hahaha!!
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Post by Jasmine on Jun 12, 2015 19:10:15 GMT
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Post by Missredhead on Jun 13, 2015 22:54:12 GMT
Really good idea RF...
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Post by Ladygardener on Jun 15, 2015 6:16:35 GMT
Rosefriend, Excellent idea, it works well and the wheels are a bonus.
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Post by Ladygardener on Jul 8, 2015 10:09:28 GMT
On the way to the allotment yesterday I saw that someone had put out a fridge freezer for disposal of by the council. I opened it up and got 4 good sized safety glass shelves. I took them to the lottie with me. They will do very nicely set across some containers to make cold frames.  |
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Post by Jilly on Jul 8, 2015 11:21:55 GMT
Brilliant Ladygardener, I'm going to be on the look out for old fridges now. Your's is a great idea too Rosefriend, I'm glad you said it's got wheels on it, we had one of those sealed bases that you are meant to fill with water but it was never stable enough to OH filled ours with concrete, which was fine if you could ignore all the swearing when it came to moving it  We quite often have to order huge reels of cable at work & the centre of the drum is usually some sort of chip board so not very durable, but the last couple we've had, the centres have been made of heavy duty plastic, so OH took the 2 ends off & just left us with a cylinder. With this one I've rested a cheap wire hanging basket on the top, I could have bought a liner but the Lobelia is a trailing one & I had an old post sack (which is porous), so that will soon be hidden. Plus that left me more in the budget to spend on plants I've got another one to do, so I'm thinking of just covering the bottom of the cylinder with more post sack & planting it up, perhaps a bit later on for the autumn, it'll give me a bit more depth than just using a pot.  |
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Post by Rosefriend on Jul 8, 2015 12:05:26 GMT
Well done Ladygardener, Jilly, - OH used to laugh/play hell with me recycling this and now does it himself, as you can see.... |
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Post by Ladygardener on Jul 9, 2015 6:15:46 GMT
Jilly, very good idea, your basket looks well, is that After 8?
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Post by Jilly on Jul 9, 2015 10:56:59 GMT
Actually Ladygardener, it's another one of the Happy Days series (yes I did have to go back & get another one, for £2.99 each it would have been rude not too  ). It's called Happy Days White, but although it's hard to tell in the pic, the flowers are actually a very pale apricot, they may turn white with age though. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Jul 9, 2015 15:04:10 GMT
Jilly, I can see a touch of colour where the shadow is on the petal. You're just right to buy it.
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Post by Chuckles on Jul 12, 2015 11:36:52 GMT
Brilliant bit of recycling Jilly  they could have quite a few uses in the garden |
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Post by Jilly on Sept 28, 2015 17:37:59 GMT
The waste bins at work are meant to be used for waste from the units but a lot of people (including us) often sneak things in from home to dump, just happened to glance that way this morning & someone had dumped a large bundle of bamboo canes (some with cane toppers attached) and a couple of windowsill sized drip trays, so waste not want not I grabbed them, and a couple of very large plastic pots which will do nicely when it's time for the Dahlias to go into the growhouse.
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Post by Rosefriend on Sept 28, 2015 18:00:01 GMT
The waste bins at work are meant to be used for waste from the units but a lot of people (including us) often sneak things in from home to dump, just happened to glance that way this morning & someone had dumped a large bundle of bamboo canes (some with cane toppers attached) and a couple of windowsill sized drip trays, so waste not want not I grabbed them, and a couple of very large plastic pots which will do nicely when it's time for the Dahlias to go into the growhouse. Oh I do love it when something like that happens...well done Jilly.. |
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). It's called Happy Days White, but although it's hard to tell in the pic, the flowers are actually a very pale apricot, they may turn white with age though.