I need an enthusiast to help me create a garden product!

[Louisatuely]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone would spare me some time to talk about their allotment or home-gardening in general. I'm a student at the Edinburgh college of Art and am doing my final year project on designing a product for the Urban Garden that aid and promote home-growing. Please reply if you are interested or just want to show me any creations that you have made for your garden/ allotment. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Louisa

[Pumpkin Becki]

Louisa, do you already have a product in mind, or are you starting from scratch? Are you looking to create something revolutionary, or redesign/improve an existing tool that we are all probably already using?

[Two_Sheds]

am doing my final year project on designing a product for the Urban Garden that aid and promote home-growing

Louisa, is that your whole brief, or is there more to it?

We'll throw some ideas at yer, but give us more to go on.

[Beanie]

What about -
Something for people with ground floor flats or bungalows, so that they can pump water from baths/showers/washine machine outlets into a water butt, for use on the garden? (Ground floor bathrooms etc cannot use gravity to get the water from bath to butt, so perhaps a battery pump with a solar panel for recharging the batteries?)

or perhaps -

Something to encourage communal composting in blocks of flats with shared gardens. Perhaps something built-in to the design of the building - a communal chute on each floor for people to drop their compostable kitchen waste into? Or a 'waste disposal unit' in each kitchen sink, that shreds compostible waste & carries it down to a communal compost bin? Or, if that's going a bit too far, then perhaps a kitchen bin with a tight-fitting lid & compostible liners, that's fly-proof (& smell-proof) to store fruit & veg peelings in, prior to the owners taking them to the compost bin. Would be useful for people who have a long walk to the compost bin (EG they're in a block of flats) & don't want to walk down there every time they use a tea-bag, so could keep the waste in their kitchens a bit longer without it smelling & attracting flies. (Or has this already been invented?!)

Or perhaps -

various-sized containers, ready-filled with decent compost, delivered to your door, perhaps along with seeds & growing instructions? I realise this isn't a 'new product', more of a 'service', but I'm thinking here that some people just aren't sure where to start & just need an initial helping hand to get them going!

Any good? Is this the kind of thing you're looking for, Louisa?

cheers
B.

[chuffa]

Hello Louisa, i have turned my lottie over to raised beds which i think would easily be managed in an urban garden you can check out my albums if you wish. And good luck with your project.

[piskieinboots]

Welcome to the Vine Louisa

I can talk from the point of building a garden in a short time, due to living in Military Quarters. I have moved seven times in 16 years of marriage to locations from Wales, Edinburgh, Peterhead, Hampshire, North West London, Oxfordshire.

Each time I build a garden (very quickly) that contains veg, annuals, perennials, shrubs and even the odd tree - yes I am permantely broke but happy