.....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)
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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?
They do the job a treat 8)
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!
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
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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.
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
Usually soaking them in water gets them apart, I know because I did the same as you!!!
Thanks Cacran, will try tomorrow.
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
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!!!!
on a different tack...has anyone made thier own paper pots i normally buy the peat pots but anything to save a buck!!
Making paper pots was discussed in this thread.
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,27698.0.html
Yes I copied the instructions and used them for the first time this year. Very good too.....and free!