Topic: Reopened - Recycle a wheelie bin

[gavinjconway]

Here's mine... hopefully full of good tasting spuds. I planted one big tuber and followed the greenery to the top of the bin...

[pumkinlover]

Well it is a green bin ;)

[misfit]

be interesting to see just how well that produces  :)

used my green bin down the lottie as a water butt  ;D

[gavinjconway]

Very dissapoiting... I only got 5 kilos from it.. but the bottom section was dry. Not enough water down to eht growing sections. Next year will put pvc piping with holes to water the lower sections. otherwise a good growth of halum and not a single blemish on the spuds.

[gavinjconway]

I also have one as a water butt..  ;D

[manicscousers]

We managed to get 40 from the council, damaged ones. the ones with no holes are water butts all over the plots, the damaged ones still get used as compost bins  :)

[ceres]

Very dissapoiting... I only got 5 kilos from it.. but the bottom section was dry. Not enough water down to eht growing sections. Next year will put pvc piping with holes to water the lower sections. otherwise a good growth of halum and not a single blemish on the spuds.

If I have seeds left over, I grow them in compost bags but the crop is never as good as when they're in the ground.  I was wondering about feed rather than water.  They're greedy plants, I wonder if they just run out of nutrients.  Did you feed yours?

[gavinjconway]

I manured and mixed general fertiliser in the compost.. I think the main problem was water but I do like the idea of running out of nutrients... Will change my habbits next time with regular feeding as well.