"Phil L" wrote in message
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spaceclanger wrote:
:: Hello,
::
:: I'm a university student studying for my final year at Sheffield
:: Hallam and I need to complete some research on garden recycling
:: and re-use. I'd really appreciate it if you could take the time to
:: answer a few questions, even if they're only short answers,
:: anything's good!
::
:: What kind of things do you recycle in a garden?
::


If you check out our (barely begun) site -
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ourallotment

You'll find in misc photos pics of the obelisk I made by welding old
horseshoes together, the planter I made out of the big plastic tubes found
in the middle of rolls of carpet, and the undersoil irrigation I put in the
greenhouse on the allotment, made out of some waste pipe and fittings I
rescued from a skip.

Also all my manure and compost bins are made from old pallets, as are the
raised beds, duckboards, and the shelving and seat-cum-toolchest in the
shed.

Various water containers rescued from skips collect the rainwater from the
shed and greenhouse, via guttering also from skips, natch. The planking on
top of the compost bins in the garden, on top of which yet another water
tank sits, came from pontoons at a quay in Poole harbour.

The pond in the garden was on it's way to the tip when I rescued it. I
wouldn't have bothered, but I had a fibreglass repair kit lying about at the
time. Guess where that came from.

The small shed in the garden is made from timber diverted from on it's way
to the tip, and has a roof made of an aluminium sheet which started life as
a double garage door. Mind you you don't want to be in the shed when it
hails :-))

And lots of other stuff.

I have been lucky in having long been involved in scrap metal and waste
disposal, or at least on the fringes, and being a natural scrounger. Perhaps
you can tell.

Steve