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Repurposing, recycling and reusing

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  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    I use a teaspoon to lift seedlings but a fork is so much better. Didn't think of that either @B3. 


    Luxembourg
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @coccinella I grow a variety of sempervivums or ferns in broken pots. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • coccinellacoccinella Posts: 1,428
    I stuck an old teapot inside the yew hedge. I filled it with dry daylily leaves. I once saw a wren in it, but no takers for a nest  :D

    Luxembourg
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @B3, @coccinella I find a table fork is just the right size for modular trays.

    The only old teapots I have are arranged on top of the kitchen cupboards with old jugs and a couple of coffee pots.  I did find a brass and copper one in a fela market which I cleaned up, thinking it would be water proof and not break if there was a strong wind but it has yet to make it outside.   Needs to be a shady shrub to stop it over heating here.

    Love the bedside table display.

    Forgot about OH recycling fallen oak timbers (tornado+old barn roofs not compatible) to mark out some new beds in our veg plot and I'm about to turn an old Belfast sink into a bird bath and drinking fountain.   
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Red mapleRed maple Posts: 1,138
    I have a pair of OH old, discarded work boots planted up with succulents. Look good.
  • Red mapleRed maple Posts: 1,138
    Oh, and use an old metal bathroom tray to hold plants on the patio. Seems we’re all a versatile lot 😁.
  • barry islandbarry island Posts: 1,847
    I found that the brown plastic trays which supermarket mushrooms come in indispensable for holding 4 wilco plastic 9cm plant pots or two of the larger ones when potting seedlings on, the trays used to be thicker than they seem to be now and will probably last for many years the new less plastic content ones won't last so long. I have followed George from Beechgroves advice and covered a polystyrene box with cement and used it as a faux stone planter for growing sempervivums, and now have two rows of hanging plastic milk bottle salad planters also copied from an idea by George Anderson.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2023
    Sainsbury's and lidls trays are pretty thick

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    edited June 2023
    We recycle Magnum sticks for use as markers for seeds. Eventually they rot down in the compost heap.

    I use my Dad's old camping cutlery set. Knife to move seedlings. Fork to remove small weeds. Spoon to mix polyfilla.

    Dad doesn't need it anymore. He's 85 and no longer camping!!
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    B3,that's funny,my hubby used the wall paper stripper to weed in the shingle path round the veg plot today. I said I wished I had thought of that. Doesn't go through the weed proof (huh) membrane
     He has got a fancy Waitrose weeder with a wooden handle
     
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