Typo - gabions are metal cages which are usually stuffed with stones or pebbles and used to make reinforcing walls. They've been adopted by garden designers who fill them wit all sorts of materials for different effects and use them as seating, dividing walls, structural support for terracing and so on but I've also seen small ones hung as hanging baskets with aeoniums in pots. Just have to use your imagination.
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)."
My 'Hanging Pallet of Pembroke Dock' is only at the 'bright idea' stage yetawhile, Artjak! d.v. I'll make my initial moves soon and will definitely record progress with the project as it develops.
*Really appreciate the pics of the other very inventive settings for the other "Ladybird Hotels" - I feel somewhat envious at present as my pallet is still in its 'natural' state in the garage/ workshop awaiting surgery!
Many thanks for all your suggestions . Have them outside for the weather to take some of the smell away before I start crunching them. Watch out slugs , here I come!
hmm - I'm not sure that all that helps me with the problem of dealing with the shells from 8 kilos of mussels that we brought back from France for a Moules Frites evening.
I think I might try the sledge hammer to bash them into submission first and then add them to several compost bins.
Do they have valuable ingredients to make the effort worthwhile though?
They are mainly Calcium carbonate (shells eventually form limestone over millions of years) but do contain valuable trace elements. Crushing and adding to soil or compost would be no bad thing.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I put mine in the oven after I'd been baking, while oven was cooling down. It made them more crispy and easier to crush. I put them in a carrier and and stood on them . Mind you with 8 kilos worth GG it could take you a while! I found the dog was interested in having a munch if I put them out without baking them. I dread to think what broken muscle shells would have done to his guts!
oooh Pansyface - if I get into all that washing, polishing and matching I shall have no time for gardening - but could it make my fortune?
Thank you DD for the baking suggestion - I think perhaps that's the one to go with. And thank you Bob for saying it is worth the effort.
Incidentally, the family dinner was much enjoyed with the ten year olds trying mussels for the first time. Needless to say we had also brought back sufficient cheap white wine to cook them in.
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Typo - gabions are metal cages which are usually stuffed with stones or pebbles and used to make reinforcing walls. They've been adopted by garden designers who fill them wit all sorts of materials for different effects and use them as seating, dividing walls, structural support for terracing and so on but I've also seen small ones hung as hanging baskets with aeoniums in pots. Just have to use your imagination.
My 'Hanging Pallet of Pembroke Dock' is only at the 'bright idea' stage yetawhile, Artjak! d.v. I'll make my initial moves soon and will definitely record progress with the project as it develops.
*Really appreciate the pics of the other very inventive settings for the other "Ladybird Hotels" - I feel somewhat envious at present as my pallet is still in its 'natural' state in the garage/ workshop awaiting surgery!
Many thanks for all your suggestions . Have them outside for the weather to take some of the smell away before I start crunching them. Watch out slugs , here I come!
hmm - I'm not sure that all that helps me with the problem of dealing with the shells from 8 kilos of mussels that we brought back from France for a Moules Frites evening.
I think I might try the sledge hammer to bash them into submission first and then add them to several compost bins.
Do they have valuable ingredients to make the effort worthwhile though?
They are mainly Calcium carbonate (shells eventually form limestone over millions of years) but do contain valuable trace elements. Crushing and adding to soil or compost would be no bad thing.
I put mine in the oven after I'd been baking, while oven was cooling down. It made them more crispy and easier to crush. I put them in a carrier and and stood on them . Mind you with 8 kilos worth GG it could take you a while! I found the dog was interested in having a munch if I put them out without baking them. I dread to think what broken muscle shells would have done to his guts!
oooh Pansyface - if I get into all that washing, polishing and matching I shall have no time for gardening - but could it make my fortune?
Thank you DD for the baking suggestion - I think perhaps that's the one to go with. And thank you Bob for saying it is worth the effort.
Incidentally, the family dinner was much enjoyed with the ten year olds trying mussels for the first time. Needless to say we had also brought back sufficient cheap white wine to cook them in.