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Title: Must be able to use these for something...
Post by: caroline7758 on January 21, 2007, 15:05:39
I hate throwing stuff away, so can anyone suggest an allotment-related use for the following?

1. Lots of wooden curtain rings
2. Lots of cardboard tubes (the sort posters come in so bigger and stronger than toilet rolls)
3. A cardboard roll from inside a carpet (2m wide)
Title: Re: Must be able to use these for something...
Post by: cornykev on January 21, 2007, 15:30:04
1. Smallest poly tunnel in the world. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
2.Cane holders.
3.Somebody suggested (on I think this forum) using for banking on a raised bed.
Title: Re: Must be able to use these for something...
Post by: supersprout on January 21, 2007, 15:48:59
1. Wood ash
2. Cut up and stick in compost heap to help aerate the heap before they decompose
3. Cut along the tube, then jump up and down on it til it's flat, then use it e.g. to cover uncultivated ground
:)
Title: Re: Must be able to use these for something...
Post by: kt. on January 21, 2007, 17:23:02
Quote from: caroline7758 on January 21, 2007, 15:05:39
1. Lots of wooden curtain rings
2. Lots of cardboard tubes (the sort posters come in so bigger and stronger than toilet rolls)
3. A cardboard roll from inside a carpet (2m wide)

The cardboard tubes and carpet tubes could be cut down to 8-10inches, fill with compost for carrots

As for the wooden curtain rings - attach them to sheets of fleece then you have rings to peg it down securely. Either that or use them as fashion icon ear-rings.....
Title: Re: Must be able to use these for something...
Post by: Grandma on January 21, 2007, 17:54:05
Wooden curtain rings:-  tie some together in a sort of ring then attach dangly strings then tie on lots of shiny/clattery stuff and suspend somewhere as a flashy/noisy bird scarer mobile-type-thingy.  ???
Title: Re: Must be able to use these for something...
Post by: mr plasma on January 21, 2007, 20:12:04
with the curtain rings you could hang up a curtain to spare the embarrassment of the salad dressing :)
Title: Re: Must be able to use these for something...
Post by: okra on January 21, 2007, 20:36:26
Curtain rings may be useful for bean cane holders.
Title: Re: Must be able to use these for something...
Post by: Mrs Ava on January 21, 2007, 23:57:27
The tubes could be cut down and used to blanch your leeks.
Title: Re: Must be able to use these for something...
Post by: caroline7758 on January 23, 2007, 19:31:38
Thanks for the ideas, serious and not so serious! ;D
Title: Re: Must be able to use these for something...
Post by: cornykev on January 23, 2007, 20:04:46
Mine were serious.    :P ;D ;D ;D ;D