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General => Top Tips => Topic started by: Amazin on February 24, 2007, 22:40:12
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I've been racking my brain cell trying to come up with a container deep enough to hold plants started off in toilet roll tubes. Today I found just the thing while tidying up.
Many moons ago I bought some underbed storage packs - the clear soft plastic flat-pack zipped ones you can pick up in any discount hardware store.
I've stiffened the sides with thick cardboard (though I might replace with short planks from pallets). Its like a cheap coldframe - zip it up at night, unzip in the morning. I've put some bubblewrap under it for added protection.
Roll on parsnips, peas; etc ;D
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VERY clever!!!!
cj :)
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Excellent idea! Go to the top of the class for ingenuity! ;D
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I use a tray which i got some seedlings in many moons ago.
The pots that fit in the tray are 2 inches wide and i pot them up 2/3 press in a toilet roll which i have scooped full of soil first and then pack more soil in.
I stand in the tray and when there all done i give them a light watering, which usualy compacts the soil a little.
Then i plant and top with a little more soil and water again.
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I use a cat litter tray (minus the cat litter of course) and just stack the filled and seeded loo rolls inside - placing it in the cold frame at night.
Got given an old butler sink a while ago - wanted to fill it with herbs and such like. Anyone got any ideas for keeping the local cats off?????
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I put prunings from shrubs etc (esp roses!)in a criss cross stylee across areas I've just sown - keeps my moggy and the next door moggies off till plants are big enough to block out toilet opportunities ;D
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yep I've used shreded rose prunings and holly etc (ie prickly stuff) to keep rabbits off over wintered onions etc. Seems to work. ;)
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I have my salad box in a large mesh jail made of panels to my puppy run including roof, this is the only way I could protect it,if anyone comes up with a good idea please let us know. There is one thing, cats don't like the smell of lemon oil I know that for a fact, perhaps some of those heavily scented lemon pellets from the petshop might be OK in the herb bed, ,I didn't want lemon flavoured lettuces !!
XX Jeannine
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Thanks for the tips about the cats - thinking deeply about the holly and prickly trimmings to keep the local youths off of my plot. (Getting old and grumpy!!!!!!)