As well as using most of the things mentioned above, I also use the plastic containers the laundry tabs come in - 6 cardboard toilet rolls fit just nicely and then you can just snap the top shut until runner beans/peas/sweetpeas etc germinate.
I also use a small plastic bottle, upside down with no cap and the bottom cut off whenever I plant a shrub/rose etc and as gavtheblade says the water gets straight down to the roots. This also works a treat in hanging baskets.
I use all sorts of things to plant in - old duffel bag hangs from an old tree with strawberries poking out of holes in the side, toilet roll for sweet pea seedlings, tomato boxes and wooden boxes from the market for growing cut and come again lettuce and radish, bkacj and white print newspapers for mulch, yoghurt pots for snail beer traps, pallets for upright/vertical planting.
Almost anything can be used to grow in, even if just for one season, and often the used container can go straight on the compost heap. Try jute shopping bags from the supermarket.
Oh, and there's quite often bubblewrap in banana boxes in supermarkets which can be used for keeping little things warm.
I save everything plastic for upcycling in the garden but plastic drinks bottles have to be returned to the supermarket; we pay a 25 cent deposit on those.
I've also used old bamboo blinds I got for free off Freegle to screen the compost bins, and water butts. The really big ones you could use for stapling or fixing to old fences perhaps.
This is my 'religion', from drainage rod bean sticks, to roofing felt onion mats and plastic covered fencing for pea supports, but the pic has some of my lesser recycling uses. Milk cartons without one side make good paint cans. Pieces of old down pipe, slit lengthwise, will clip sacks to bins. Parazone bottles make a variety of funnels with their bottom halves as useful beakers/post covers. Other household bottles with handles, and tops removed, make useful scoops for refilling bird feeders etc.
Half tonne building material bags will usually have their straps intact, which can be carefully removed with a craft knife. Car safety belts from a breakers yard are useful, too. Both are strong and rot proof for attaching trees/shrubs to stakes.
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As well as using most of the things mentioned above, I also use the plastic containers the laundry tabs come in - 6 cardboard toilet rolls fit just nicely and then you can just snap the top shut until runner beans/peas/sweetpeas etc germinate.
I also use a small plastic bottle, upside down with no cap and the bottom cut off whenever I plant a shrub/rose etc and as gavtheblade says the water gets straight down to the roots. This also works a treat in hanging baskets.
I use all sorts of things to plant in - old duffel bag hangs from an old tree with strawberries poking out of holes in the side, toilet roll for sweet pea seedlings, tomato boxes and wooden boxes from the market for growing cut and come again lettuce and radish, bkacj and white print newspapers for mulch, yoghurt pots for snail beer traps, pallets for upright/vertical planting.
Almost anything can be used to grow in, even if just for one season, and often the used container can go straight on the compost heap. Try jute shopping bags from the supermarket.
Oh, and there's quite often bubblewrap in banana boxes in supermarkets which can be used for keeping little things warm.
Has anyone ever used 1 penny pieces in rings around plants?
Had a brain wave earlier thinking of the whole `copper`thing.
Those rolls are expensive and dont last.
I save everything plastic for upcycling in the garden but plastic drinks bottles have to be returned to the supermarket; we pay a 25 cent deposit on those.
I've saved widgets to put on the ends of canes, tennis balls work to.
I've also used old bamboo blinds I got for free off Freegle to screen the compost bins, and water butts. The really big ones you could use for stapling or fixing to old fences perhaps.