Topic: Alishka - more black buckets !

[pye]

Waitrose have got some beauties in at the mo - twice as deep as the normal ones. :o But they won't let me have any! I keep loitering round the flower display and asking different staff members but they are standing firm dammit.

I WILL get my mits on them somehow.

[Hyacinth]

FREE BLACK BUCKETS FROM A CO-OP NEAR YOU  - and, as an added refinement to the common-or-garden BOUGHT ones, you can even choose the sizes you want 8)

[kt.]

After reading this thread, I have started getting some black flower buckets from my mother-in-law. She is the manageress of a small retail outlet that also sells flowers. I have 8 at the moment. More to follow.   ;) ;) ;)      ;D ;D ;D

[shirlton]

I sent my daughter Sally for some at the end of last year to Asda cos thats where I got mine for a small donation to breast cancer. they told her that they don't give them away anymore . They sell them. Got a coop just up the road though.

[Hyacinth]

Get along there Shirl, get yer skates on ;D.....spect it's on your way to Wilkos anyway  :)..and remember! You're not just getting FREE black buckets - you're doing the Planet a Big Service by recycling them 8)  The coop bin them :o I usually put in an order one day & collect them the next....

[lorna]

OK Lish. I will own up, I got 10 last week from my co-op but THEY COST me 10p each ( I can hear you laughing) I think they put money in their tea tin or something. Cos the assistant asked another if they ring it up but she said ....No it just goes in the tin.
Still a bargain and I don't begrudge the staff a cup of tea on me ;D

[shirlton]

Great to see you posting again Lorna even if it is about bloomin black buckets

[lorna]

Thanks Shirl. Feeling much better managed couple of hours in garden yesterday Yipee. Gotta go for more tests on 12th.

[cornykev]

I got ten for 99p at morrisons a few weeks ago, when I got them home I noticed the top one was smaller  >:( and had dropped inside the others, when I tipped them out there was three slightly smaller ones, so I had 12 for 99p  :)  don't really need any I just didn't want to miss out.   ;D ;D ;D

[Chris Graham]

I noticed that too about the smaller ones inside, ripping me off !  ;)   Hehehe just kidding.

Now my 6x6 greenhouse should be able to hold 12 tomato plants at a push !!  ;)

I cant wait

[Amazin]

Swill out with some hot water first to heat up and soften the plastic, then use a Stanley knife or similar to cut holes, and remember - they don't have to be round!

 ;D

[Hyacinth]

Last year I heated up a tomato slicing knife, made a hole, then sliced round. Like cutting butter. 8) The discs I was left with a) got more holes put in them for wigwam supports and b) got fixed onto the horizontal canes of the runnerbeans structures.......an I've only just started on New Uses for Black Bucket Bottoms.....any more ideas please?

[MrsKP]

The discs I was left with a) got more holes put in them for wigwam supports

bet you knicked that idea out of a mag !!   8)

[Hyacinth]

The mag nicked that idea from ME. And I demand royalties ;D

[shirlton]

Tony does all our pot bottoms with a soldering iron. Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chris Graham]

I just get 8 more for free at Sainsburys, this is addictive !

[MrsKP]

hee hee, washed some of mine today that were home to the BBs.  have got to count them soon lol.

 ;D

[manicscousers]

ray's just put holes in the bottom of the ones I'm planting my 9 butterfly bushes in for the allotment plant day  ;D