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Avocado Plastic Baths

toysinwoodtoysinwood Posts: 2
in Fruit & veg
I have just moved into my house in Brittany and the place I want to grow vegetables in the future is currently an overgrown hedge partnered with brambles ivy and bindweed. I have access to some free plastic baths, any reason I can not recycle these as raised beds for this summer!

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    You might need to put some extra drainage holes in the bottom.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    As fire says, drainage, so drill extra holes in the bottom.   Might be expensive filling them with compost too.   Our local France Rurale often has BOGOF offers on compost and there's a nursery that will deliver soil (terre végétale) by the small truck load.  We shall be ordering some of that when we get our own veggie plot sorted with raised beds........
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    Plato
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I was thinking that too. But wondering what kind of baths they might be - baby baths, full scale bathroom tubs? There is an interesting discussion here on how to partly fill your planters with things other than soil.
  • toysinwoodtoysinwood Posts: 2
    Thanks for that link, I like the idea of plastic bottles to fill up space, it will also mean less earth to remove when I go to the permanent site. I can then put growing medium higher up the bath level and will not have to reach down so far to plant and weed etc.


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