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Title: Just a few pics....
Post by: carrot-cruncher on April 11, 2005, 15:15:43
......of everything I've crammed into my small back yard!!!!!

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/anaxi100/Gardening/Backyard/DSC00107.jpg)
From the left - yellow climber rose (underplanted with spring onions & radish), mint, red hybrid tea rose

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Dwarf french beans, runner beans in square container underplanted with hyacinth, white floribunda (underplanted with baby beetroot) then fuschia cuttings in the chimney pot.

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/anaxi100/Gardening/Backyard/DSC00109.jpg)

Recycling with a vengance, my strawberries are loving their new home.   The containers were all obtained from either car boot sales or architectural salvage dealers.

Title: Re: Just a few pics....
Post by: dibberxxx on April 11, 2005, 18:56:16
such a good ideal how u have stacked and staggered the pots
Title: Re: Just a few pics....
Post by: carrot-cruncher on April 11, 2005, 21:16:59
The 2nd & 3rd ones up are actually stood on a couple of bricks then I filled the remaining space up with compost & gave each layer a good drink of rainwater before stacking the next layer on top.   

Once the layers were in place I then transplanted my strawberry plants over, gave them another drink of rainwater & left them to settle.   I moved them over the easter weekend & they seem to have taken the house move quite well.   There's ten plants in the tower plus I gave five others way (not bad considering I only bought six plants last year!!!).

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Title: Re: Just a few pics....
Post by: carrot-cruncher on April 11, 2005, 21:22:08
forgot to say.....

sorry about the picture size, I'd already posted the pictures before I discovered how to resize them in photobucket.

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Title: Re: Just a few pics....
Post by: wardy on April 12, 2005, 00:03:55
I've got a pot like that one (black with paintings on).  Mine is painted red oxide and I grow all sorts in it, usually herbs or pansies or both.  Had it years and years and never repainted it  :)
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Post by: eileen on April 12, 2005, 00:27:54
Wonderful bit of recyling there!! Everything seems to be thriving.  :D
Title: Re: Just a few pics....
Post by: crackintackle on April 12, 2005, 15:56:43
I just love the roses in the dustbins - how very ingenious of you! My garden could just about host a table tennis match, so I will certainly take a few of your ideas.
Title: Re: Just a few pics....
Post by: Heldi on April 12, 2005, 16:28:12
My fav has to be the strawbs...brilliant!