Builder's Bag

[katynewbie]

I have been given one of these, you know the kind of thing, arrives on a lorry and gets craned off, full of a ton of sand etc?
Question is: what shall I use it for on the plot? I thought compost, but maybe you inventive types out there have some better ideas?!

[katynewbie]

[peanuts]

Having a very big garden, we find it incredibly useful for moving stuff around, eg collecting leaves up and moving them to where we want to pile them to rot down. Two of us can drag stuff around in it quite easily. Or collecting wood around the garden for kindling. 
Sorry, perhaps not so useful ideas in an allotment though.   

[goodlife]

I have 2 of them that are used as planters on area that is not suitable for growing on ground.
2 yrs ago I started filling them..2 bales of straw and all manner of green waste was piled in with few handfuls of ammonia to aid composting...carried filling up like compost bin, spent compost, more straw, more ammonia, grass clippings, chicken's bedding etc etc.
This spring they were finally full and suitably rotted down and topped the contents with some MP compost and gave good feed and planted  pumpkin into each bag. AND...the plants are HUGE now..NO...ENOURMOUS...much bigger than any of the squashes I planted same time but into ground.
Once the plants have finished..I'm going to chop them up and return the whole lot into bags and carry on piling up more 'filling'..level seem to go down very quickly despite adding such a quantity of waste. Don't know what I'm going to plant next year but anything and everything is possible

Oh..and I've got my eye on for couple of more bags...just need to find suitable spot for them first..

[ACE]

Be aware that some (not all) of those builders bags are biodegradable and after a couple of years the bottom drops out. The big rubble sacks are long lasting.  Just ask on any builders site they will save them for you, or else they will have to pay to dump them.

[cornykev]

Growing spuds, leaf mould and compost are the three things I've used mine for.