Topic: Cardboard tubes

[deboydoyd]

I think i'm going slightly OTT with the scavenging but plucked up courage and asked at the local carpet shop and have acquired as many cardboard and plastic tubes as i like (the wide ones which carpets come rolled round) and as much carpet ends as i need for paths etc. Has anyone got any ingenious use for them, does anyone use them already, can you fill them with compost and grow veg in them on the patio? I would be interested to here from anyone.

[littlegem]

i think some people grow leeks in drainpipes (the exhibitionists i think) so maybe those, or celery, might help with the blanching! ??? like doing potaotes in bages is easier for the earthing up. don't qoute me on it though ;D

[Amazin]

WOW! Result, Deboydoyd!

If you're growing anything slightly delicate, you could cut a length of the wide cardboard tubing to sink in the ground as extra protection/ insulation of the roots. Likewise if you're growing in pots you could fit it inside.

Spray the cardboard with water containing liquid feed. I did this with the toilet rolls for my sweetpeas and it seems to have helped!

Plastic tubing I'd cut into small sections to use as (bottomless) pots inside seed trays. Would make it easier to transplant baby plants into the ground - i.e. just pushing the plants out rather than having to turn out of normal pots.

[glow777]

I use the plastic tubing to edge my raised beds, lasts forever!