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hello everyone
                         i have recently been lucky enough for my name to come to the top of the councils` allotment waiting list and finally got one.BUT! i am in great need of a wheelbarrow and either wire mesh or plastic mesh. if anyone has any of these please contact me. ::)

I suspect we all have these but we're probably not going to give them away, especially not if we happen to be at the far end of the country from you!   ;)

Try your local Freecycle.

Car boot sales.

EBay.

Shops like Wilkinsons/Lidl/Aldi/Pound Shops etc etc.

Welcome to A4A!

Sorry but I value my wheelbarrows more than most things I own.

Try putting an ad on your local freecycle site. http://www.freecycle.org/ And enjoy your allotment!

Hope you get your wheelbarrow & enjoy your plot. If you don't get one we found the plastic trugs were great for humping stuff about in.

thanks for the nice message grannyanny-although think i`ll give the
`heaving` amiss-i am disabled. ;)

Moment
Freecycle will probably be a good place to ask, I see all sorts of gardening stuff being offered here. Also, in the meantime, I find laying heavier stuff on an old plastic tarpaulin and dragging is better than trying to lift.
Good luck with the plot  :)

I got one of those things like a trug on wheels with a handle, I think from aldi, being less abled myself, I don't do hauling stuff either, moment but find I can pull this with one hand while having one of my sticks in the other  :)

Hi Moment, welcome to A4A  :)

Just to suggest you hide your e-mail address in your profile. We can all contact each other privately anyway using the Private Message (PM) system - click on the scroll underneath a poster's avatar.

Moment, have you had a look on freecycle. We have 3 in our area & I registered with them all. It's a bit tedious going through the emails but you never know what you might miss ;D. Please keep us informed of your progress. Before we got our barrow others on site offered theres on loan, might be an option. Allotmenteerers are lovely people 8). Hope you've got lots of help with it.

Ryland make a light weight [but strong] plastic  wheelbarrow which can be bought cheaply at some of the bigger markets.  Where are you?  There is a good market at Wellsbourne near Stratford-on- Avon.  This wheelbarrow is super for transporting light but bulky stuff.

Hello and congratulations on your new allotment. 

I scrounged a wheelbarrow from our local park because they were going to throw it away.  It only needed the tyre repairing. 
Probably Freecycle will be best for you but be prepared for the millions of emails. :)
My plastic mesh also came from the park.  When contractors had finished the work they were doing, they were going to throw it away so I asked for it to be thrown my way!
Same with the green nylon netting stuff, this came from a building site.

just seen a lightweight folding one in aldi for less than 20.00, if that's any good  :)

Go skip raiding