Allotments 4 All

glow777 I am still trying to work out a use for the base with the spindle.

I thought maybe they could go on the tops of canes to provide support for netting. Any better ideas out there?

Hi Growbe, what about nailing them to a wall in your shed (assuming you have one) and using them to hang things on, (coats, rakes, any garden tools with a string on the handle, etc).

in addition to another 4 pallets from my local friendly tile supplier, today i went scavenging in the front garden of the house opposite.  there was a huge pile of stuff that could have been moving in or out, but faint heart never got nowt, so i knocked the door and the very nice people said help yourself, so i got a mini greenhouse frame with shelves (which will do nicely as shelves in the shed),  big green plastic pot, ikea type pine shoerack, which will do as shelving somewhere, and a brand new clothes airer (which is in better condition than my current one)  :o

OH lost patience with me though, so i DIDN'T get a perfectly good old compost bin  and a kind of nice big BBQ thingy which would have made an excellent potting bench with a bit of a scrub (both these things were too heavy for me to lift on my own  ???).

if they're still there tomorrow, i'm going to have another try and see if i can drag them across the road.

my new goodies made up for the SECOND wing mirror smashed in less than two weeks by our kindly local ned kiddies   :'(

Well, when I did my monthly off-load at the bottle bank this morning & 'rescued' 4 blue stacking polythene boxes (the sort that g/grocers have their punnets of mushrooms in) thought I'd done really well..........and then I read Mrs.KP's addition.....

(specially liked the bit where you didn't know if they were moving it in or out...) ;D ;D ;D

this allotmenting malarky has opened up a whole new world of "what could i use that for" and the confidence to go and ask.

right at the bottom of the pile was a double bed frame.  if it were wood, i'd have gone for it, but it looked like a particle board one and wouldn't have lasted 5 secs.


i still want the BBQ  :P

I now look at everything in terms of what I can do with it at allotment. So far I have scavenged

An old computer table from neighbour it's now a potting table
Bedside table from skip, now hols tea nad coffee things
various bits of wood
an old wardrobe from same neighbour all broken down and reay to make a table in my new greenhouse
in the neighbouring flats to me are a set of shelves and a cupboard which will make their way to plot very soon
wooden single bedframe whcih i still have to put to use yet.

The looks I got the sunday morning that I wheeled the computer table along were great. Thank god plot is only a 2 minute walk away. ;D

Yes a BBQ is just fabulous, even just for sausages, or grilled tomatoes, sweetcorn, peppers, I hope I am making everyone drool  :)

I do roast chicken and baked fish on mine. Drool!

one (virtually unused) bbq, is now scrubbed and has morphed into a potting bench.

if you keep the two grills at the same height, it's the perfect size for my potting tray.



here's a similar one and i've just saved myself £50.

;D

Very nice Mrs KP. well done. ;D

We had a new field shed on our allotments just over a year ago and its been furnished almost entirely from skips and scavenging, items we've 'recycled' include:

A drop leaf table
A kitchen table
Several chairs, including stacking chairs
Two kitchen wall cupboards
Carpet and a large offcut of cushion floor
Metal shelf racking
A calorgas cooker
Coffee mugs and plastic tray
Brooms and a brush and dustpan
Waterbutts

In spite of much searching we didn't find  - so had to BUY - a kettle and a teapot (50p each at a car boot sale!)

someone near me was throwing out a 4 shelve mini greenhouse. got there just before the bin men. its in my greenhouse now as staging.

Right thats it....

the scrapyard down the road from me is going to get a real good hoking through,

I've had so many good ideas on this thread. ;D

not exactly a scavenge but a mate bought the local loot type paper today to flog a guitar and i saw an ad for a ton of top soil available for nowt!

going to pick up as much as i can on saturday morning.

  ;D