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
VERY clever!!!!
cj :)
Excellent idea! Go to the top of the class for ingenuity! ;D
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.
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?????
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
yep I've used shreded rose prunings and holly etc (ie prickly stuff) to keep rabbits off over wintered onions etc. Seems to work. ;)
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
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!!!!!!)