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re pricey pots
I was sat here thinking after reading the post about pricey pots. I am a
skinflint when it comes to paying for things. I also do most of my growing in containers because it is easier than digging the heavy clay here, and it helps stop the rabbits and guinea pigs and chickens which free range:from nibbling whatever I'm growing. So, I wondered what others used instead of paying for pots.I have the usual car tyres turned inside out but with a twist as my local garage chap scallops the edges so that they look like larke flowers. Very pretty and only £2 each. I spray them pretty colours with cheap spray paint. I have also grown lobellia in an old wellie boot hung on a wall. Cut a hole near the toe and had some hanging out there too. Have used the cheap black buckets from the £1 shop, also polystyrene boxes given by aquariums and fish shops. The latter are good at insulating roots and when they start to look grubby you can break them up and use as drainage in the base of pots. This year, I came across some aluminium walls ice cream containers about 14" high 18" wide and 10" deep. I must look on the internet first to make sure they are valuable or collectable before I put holes in them.Also an old water cistern from a toilet, black bakelite type material, an old steel bath and I have used a toilet pan before too.(for sweet peas perhaps) I think I might have *one* purpose bought pot somewhere which is large enough to grow a tomato plant in, but otherwise it is all 'make do '. I have an interesting garden plus I am recycling. I also stack up car tyres and fill the centres with compost to grow potatoes. So, what other unusual, cheap or free containers do people use themselve or what have you seen someone else using? -- purebred poultry www.geocities.com/fenlandfowl |
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