Builders bag!

[alldigging]

I've been given a builders bag - the big ones they drop sand off in!

What can I do with it?

Compost bag?
Raised bed? (Would take an awful lot of soil)
Use it to store my manure rather than just have a sprawling heap?

Got to be some more ideas than that?

[OverWyreGrower]

I've used them for leaf-mulch before.... the problem is, once they are more than half full, they are really difficult to move around...

[veggiechicken]

You don't have to fill it to the brim with soil. Turn the sides down and make a raised bed. Or make compost in it this year and plant into that next year.

[Mikey]

Give it a rinse, and take it to the supermarket as your bag for life, you might get a few looks.

[zazen999]

Turn the sides down, put your manure in the bottom half, put soil in the top and plant it up with squashes and you will get 2 out of your 3 mentioned.

Pop some late spuds in the sides around the squash and you might get potatoes for Christmas at the same time - just harvest the squash/pumpkin, turn the sides up and slice the pumpkin stem and let the foliage rot down on top of the bag.

[Florence Fennel]

Like that one Zaz. I plan something similar for one of the growbeds I bought recently.

[dominic10]

I was keen to grow something on my new allotment - I had 3 old compost heaps, I put stable litter in the bottom, a layer of the oldest of the compost heaps and a top layer of MPC. Carrots are growing well in one but not a parsnip in sight in the other so I'm going to put in some squash. I have only half filled them and turned back the sides as Zaz suggests. They are also sitting on the site of nettles/bindweed and round them I have put a thick mulch of stable litter. At home we have a bag full of leaves which we then put into the compost palleter as an extra layer inbetween other things.