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Spurred on by Damien Jay and Lumpy I've decided decided to open this thread, which in the original post it was about that little area we all probably have and mine is called the "Buy them in the summer sales while they're cheap then forget you have them pile"
I say a pile - it's actually housed in the loft, garage, cupboard under the stairs, etc, etc, etc. I think the two titles above should give you an idea of what it contains (please note that plants and seeds are not on this list. Neither are books, videos or magazines).
Off the top of my head amongst the content of the pile are :
6 rose arches (£3 each double them up great for growing squash up)
10 meter roll of plastic Coates steel wire garden fence (used 5m per 2 rose arches)
2 6x4x3 coldframe type grow tents from argos (£7.50 each a bargain)
2 6x4x6 greenhouse type grow tents (at £15 each almost disposable)
2 4 tier mini greenhouses from Wilko (at £3.50 they make cheap as chips staging)
A couple of rolls of self amalgamating SOS pipe repair tape (used to strengthen the joints of the green houses)
20 meters of para cord (to tie into the diagonals of the green houses to brace them)
Half a dozen cheap and nasty pound shop leaky hoses for half price (because I might use them)
A couple of Wilkos soaker hoses (same reason as above)
2 drill powered water pumps despite the fact I don't have a cordless drill powerful enough to drive them - in fact I don't have a cordless drill at all (but I MIGHT get one, the shop was closing down the next day and they were 59p each)
2 hose pipe water meters
numerous multiple tap connectors so that if I connected them together if connect 48 hoses to a single waterbutt
11 watching planters with 3 planting spaces each (very expensive at £2.50 the lot)
10 four space stacking planters (because I bought these before I saw the above bargain)
40 5" plant pots which I nicked from a pub
6 5" plant pots with plastic domes (which links to the original post)
2 large window propogators (unheated) a quid each
mechanical water timers that don't work on water butts
mechanical timers that DO work on water butts
Of course these are only the things that come to mind. There's bound to be more.
Oh yes all this and the peat pots, the Velcro plant ties, a swoe (£2 - can you believe it), coconut coir blocks, plastic coated wire, copper sly tape, slug traps
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Have you ever started something and though WHY OH WHY DID I START THAT? however I've typed far too much to delete this post.
I say a pile - it's actually housed in the loft, garage, cupboard under the stairs, etc, etc, etc. I think the two titles above should give you an idea of what it contains (please note that plants and seeds are not on this list. Neither are books, videos or magazines).
Off the top of my head amongst the content of the pile are :
6 rose arches (£3 each double them up great for growing squash up)
10 meter roll of plastic Coates steel wire garden fence (used 5m per 2 rose arches)
2 6x4x3 coldframe type grow tents from argos (£7.50 each a bargain)
2 6x4x6 greenhouse type grow tents (at £15 each almost disposable)
2 4 tier mini greenhouses from Wilko (at £3.50 they make cheap as chips staging)
A couple of rolls of self amalgamating SOS pipe repair tape (used to strengthen the joints of the green houses)
20 meters of para cord (to tie into the diagonals of the green houses to brace them)
Half a dozen cheap and nasty pound shop leaky hoses for half price (because I might use them)
A couple of Wilkos soaker hoses (same reason as above)
2 drill powered water pumps despite the fact I don't have a cordless drill powerful enough to drive them - in fact I don't have a cordless drill at all (but I MIGHT get one, the shop was closing down the next day and they were 59p each)
2 hose pipe water meters
numerous multiple tap connectors so that if I connected them together if connect 48 hoses to a single waterbutt
11 watching planters with 3 planting spaces each (very expensive at £2.50 the lot)
10 four space stacking planters (because I bought these before I saw the above bargain)
40 5" plant pots which I nicked from a pub
6 5" plant pots with plastic domes (which links to the original post)
2 large window propogators (unheated) a quid each
mechanical water timers that don't work on water butts
mechanical timers that DO work on water butts
Of course these are only the things that come to mind. There's bound to be more.
Oh yes all this and the peat pots, the Velcro plant ties, a swoe (£2 - can you believe it), coconut coir blocks, plastic coated wire, copper sly tape, slug traps
.
.
.
.
Have you ever started something and though WHY OH WHY DID I START THAT? however I've typed far too much to delete this post.
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