Topic: Papers to Recycling? You must be MAAAAAD!!

[Hyacinth]

.....done lots of tub-planting these weeks.....gorn are the fillers of broken crocks (ACE you reading this? ;D) or bits of polystyrene you have to grit your teeth if, like, me, you HATE the feel of the stuff and hate even more the picking-out of the uncompostable white bits at the end of the season when you empty the tubs & compost the rest...... :(

IN is newspaper, in layers....not the glossies but 'ordinary' newsprint papers....can be composted with the soil at the end of the season + for the growing season will help hold the moisture in the containers......

......and if these containers happen to be FREEBIE BLACK BUKKITS..... ???

  8) 8) 8)

 ;D

[caroline7758]

Good idea, but aren't the crocks meant to cover the holes so they don't get blocked with compost? Not sure newspaper would serve the same purpose?

[Hyacinth]

They do the job a treat 8)

[caroline7758]

Ok, will definitely give it a try- it's a pain picking out the crocks when I tip the old compost on to the heap!

[Old bird]

Well I again feel like a sl*t!!

I don't pick anything out of the compost - just when I get round to using it it gets spread on the garden and will probably then be picked up again and re-used!

I find that you have to be a bit careful with newspapers - if you put them in too thick a pile in the heap - they stay a solid layer and are a complete nuisance to get past as a spade won't go through them!  I didn't put them in that thick either!

We get the F.Times at work - quality newspapers !! but also pretty salmon pink!

I am trying to find a home for the shredded paper sacks that we have - any ideas?

I used some down the lottie - under my potatoes - but we have so many now probably 3 large bin bags a week!

Old Bird

 ;D

[caroline7758]

I put ours from work on freecycle- some people wanted it for pet bedding, others for compost. Now one of our volunteers takes it to the tip and it goes in the paper recycling there.

[lorna]

Off thread for a mo. Dear Lish (sounds like an Agony Aunt letter) can you help me with my buckits?? I left a stack in the garden, instead of tucking them up in the shed and now I can't get the ruddy things apart, and ideas? Please remember I am a poor old widow woman so no strong action remedies please ;D

[cacran]

Usually soaking them in water gets them apart, I know because I did the same as you!!!

[lorna]

Thanks Cacran, will try tomorrow.

[Hyacinth]

Sozz, only just seen this Lorns...did it work? If you're on a water meter and don't want to use your hose to get them apart, send them here to me & I'll leave them out in the rain for you. >:( Brummagem rain'll sort em out, no probs :D

[lorna]

 Lish Forgot about it today, too busy with the gardening but tomorrow I need to use some for individual plants. I am on a meter. Send them to you? Not ruddy likely they cost me 10p each unlike a certain lucky blighter who gets them for nothing, to add insult to injury yours and mine are from the same people, just a different branch!!!!

[STEVEB]

on a different tack...has anyone made thier own paper pots i normally buy the peat pots but anything to save a buck!!

[Baccy Man]

Making paper pots was discussed in this thread.
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,27698.0.html

[star]

Yes I copied the instructions and used them for the first time this year. Very good too.....and free!