To Joji - about your washing machine

[Mrs Ava]

Um, I figured those were all pretty good answers on ways to use your old washing machine drum.  I don't really understand what you were expecting people to say!!

[Mrs Ava]

[Roy Bham UK]

Make nice plant pots until you want to re-pot them ;D
A friend bolted one to a steel stump and used it as a garden heater that glowed lovely at night. :)

[Robert_Brenchley]

I wonder whether it would work to confine something like mint or horseradish, or whether they would grow straight through the holes. Anyone tried it?

[Roy Bham UK]

Robert I put a large plastic compost bag in mine with drainage holes  ;)

[GREENWIZARD]

like EJ i also thought the suggestions were good
RBUK they look great as planters

[Curryandchips]

Perhaps the drum could be used as a colander to clean the vegetables before bringing them home. I do this with mine, scrubbing all the soil etc off so that they don't make a mess when brought into the kitchen. This morning it consisted of parsnips and leeks.

[adam04]

yup, i thought they were sensible too.

[grawrc]

Well one or two were a bit tongue-in-cheek but essentially they seemed good to me. In fact I passed an abandoned (waiting for council pick-up) WM on my way home today and had to be very self-disciplined not to come back with a toolkit and retrieve the drum. I was that impreseed by some of what you can do with them.

[daveandtara]

Actually, I thought that locking the thread was downright rude.

It seems I've finally found a use for the ignore button.

Tara.

[Wicker]

I'm intending to renew my washing machien later this year and the original thread had already made my mind up that I would be getting Mr W to dismantle the drum (and any other useful bits!) for reuse.  Thought the suggestions were good and what's life without a BIT of humour. 
Maybe locking threads should be left to Dan's discretion at the request of the original poster?  would save possible misunderstanding all round.

[dandelion]

Here's a picture of the washing machine window fruitbowl! Quite snazzy I thought. For size reference: the big yellow fruit is a pomelo.

http://www.vrombaut.co.uk/fruitbowl.jpg

[Hyacinth]

Love the fruitbowl!


REALLY love the thought of eating a pomelo again. I've not seen one around here - where did you get yours, and is it sweet and lovely?

Enviously yours,

Lishka

[Acewell]

;) Does the Biz for me Dandelion, only wish I'd seen that B4 I dumped mine. :'( ;D

[dandelion]

REALLY love the thought of eating a pomelo again. I've not seen one around here - where did you get yours, and is it sweet and lovely?

Enviously yours,

Lishka

It was an impulse buy from Sainsbury's: first time I've seen it there. Actually, I was rather disappointed. It tasted more like a grapefruit. The flesh was pinkish and the fruit itself yellow. I've only eaten it a couple of times before and I remember it being green with yellow/greenish flesh ???

[Hyacinth]

The pink flesh/yellow skin is what I remember from gorging on it in the far east - no tart 'acidic' taste..........pure heaven. I'll check out Sainsburys - thanks :)

Lishka

[ellkebe]

What a great idea Dandelion - you'd pay a fortune for that in Habitat or somewhere similar  ;D

[Hyacinth]

Furthermore, for the hot/cold piping, John H's Top Tip of the Year:

sorry if this one has been shaired before, but I use two foot long bits of hose pipe as 'universal joints' between bamboo canes. A bit of pipe with two 6 foot canes poked in the ends of it will help to make and easy build  'A' frame or an archway over the path between two raised beds, (very handy use of redundant space for growing beans up). three short bits of bamboo joined by two bits of hose pipe can be used as a low frame to cover any beds which low growing soft fruit is planted in.

8)

[kenkew]

Dang! I thought I was full of good ideas. I chucked one out just before Christmas, never came to my mind to take it to bits. Mind you, I did hang on to the glass door!

[Hyacinth]

I second what Marky said :)

Stunning pix, tho, do you agree? The fruit bowl is fab and Roy's planter? It's like Habitat's best ;D

Be interested to know what you've decided.......me, I'd use the drum , not as an incinerator, as such, but can imagine hot coals in the bottom, a grill over the top - and it could be a sort of extension warming station for food from a barbie or gently heat water in a kettle for a cuppa after your work's done.. 8)

[Heldi]

I've seen one used as a stool with a blue light inside,fluffy cushion on top.  Looked good.  Think at the same time one was used as a table...perspex over the hole and coloured light inside.

I do like the planter and the fruit bowl. Why did I let mine go??!!