Awesome Ideas Of 2017!

[Bigmallly]

You mean something like this dal?........I made these a few years ago with 20mm pipe & bamboo canes fastened into a 6x3 timber base frame.

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[Dalrimple]

not realy BM i'm going for the quick cheap method of using corners made out of pipe and three willow or hazel stakes there's alot old copiced woods and edgerows around where I live and sites waiting to be built on ,ive used hoops made out of willow but it seems to me that a square frame gives more growing area ,
this method allows me to make five frames that I will push into the ground and will take my debries netting across the 26ft beds on the alotment ! yours looks smashing by the way.atb Dal

[cheapskate chaz]

The square method IS better than hoops, as you say, you have more growing room, I put hoops over my Asparagus Peas and at the edges they grew through them, making it difficult to clean the netting when they were harvested.
To make 90* bends, use an old piece of garden hose, a 6" length is suitable for canes and small lengths.

[Dalrimple]

chaz iv'e allready got the pipe ,it seems that 12inch blue 20mm id alcethene just fitted into my work bag so the offcuts did n't go to waste ! atb Dal

[Cadalot]

OK not an Awsome idea but a practical one me thinks, I'm now rescuing mushroom trays and using the trusty soldering iron to cut off the upstands and these will be cable ties together and will clad my two greenhouse frames to stop the birds getting in. I'm also going to make some timber frames up and clad them with the bottoms to protect the beds from the foxes.

[cheapskate chaz]

Propagators for your windowsill, can be made from Ice cream tubs and Grape punnets, The punnets without lids seem best fit plus they come with air holes .

[Compo72]

for a quick shelter for plants been potted on

im using the large plastic tubs that you buy 150 fat balls in for birds .
placed on a side with the pots put in ,keeps the elements off

ive also made some holes in a couple and sowing some baby carrots and chard , just an experiement

[Jay-ell]

I had a dream of an idea today for using up some of the bits for the garden. Two ideas really.

literally dream ideas as I was asleep at the time - there I was flying over the plot on a burgundy Jackalope trying to stop the weasels from climbing up my trouser leg when I had to swerve to avoid the high rise strawberry tower and that's when they hit me - the ideas not the strawberries.

Amongst the items I have hoarded tagged for future projects are some large plastic bottle like containers. I also have bits of hose pipe, various hose pipe connector bits, ceramic capillary drippers, silicone sealant, nipple, 4mm irrigation tube and stackable planters.

Those stacking planters might save space but if you aren't able to get there every day to water they dry out. when it rains the top one gets watered and the others get sheltered.

The first idea is to give an irrigation system to the stacking planters. Using the capillary water thingies to draw the water into the planters the larger bottle (40 litres) would feed a pice of hosepipe which had the capillary units connected to it be irrigation tube and nipples. teenage of the hose would be bunged up. I've used these capillary bits before and they did work when the end was in a bucket - although on regular pots.



the second idea is to take section of pipe from the bottom of the sealed bottle (or possibly more using one of those hose multi taps) ad place the open end facing downwards into a garden tray of gravel. The water flows out of the pipe and soaks the Sand until the level of the water closes off the open face of the pipe from the afraid stopping the flow.

As the water gets used up the level drops and airman get into the pipe, displacing the water which will flow into the tray etc, etc, etc. The length of hose must always be rising so the air flows into the bottle.



OK, I'm off to look for a horned purple rabbit with wings and fangs. I know where the weasel is.

[Snadger]

I had a dream of an idea today for using up some of the bits for the garden. Two ideas really.

literally dream ideas as I was asleep at the time - there I was flying over the plot on a burgundy Jackalope trying to stop the weasels from climbing up my trouser leg when I had to swerve to avoid the high rise strawberry tower and that's when they hit me - the ideas not the strawberries.

Amongst the items I have hoarded tagged for future projects are some large plastic bottle like containers. I also have bits of hose pipe, various hose pipe connector bits, ceramic capillary drippers, silicone sealant, nipple, 4mm irrigation tube and stackable planters.

Those stacking planters might save space but if you aren't able to get there every day to water they dry out. when it rains the top one gets watered and the others get sheltered.

The first idea is to give an irrigation system to the stacking planters. Using the capillary water thingies to draw the water into the planters the larger bottle (40 litres) would feed a pice of hosepipe which had the capillary units connected to it be irrigation tube and nipples. teenage of the hose would be bunged up. I've used these capillary bits before and they did work when the end was in a bucket - although on regular pots.

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the second idea is to take section of pipe from the bottom of the sealed bottle (or possibly more using one of those hose multi taps) ad place the open end facing downwards into a garden tray of gravel. The water flows out of the pipe and soaks the Sand until the level of the water closes off the open face of the pipe from the afraid stopping the flow.

As the water gets used up the level drops and airman get into the pipe, displacing the water which will flow into the tray etc, etc, etc. The length of hose must always be rising so the air flows into the bottle.

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OK, I'm off to look for a horned purple rabbit with wings and fangs. I know where the weasel is.

Clear as mud!

[Jay-ell]

Clear as mud!

You expect dream sequences to make sense?

[Snadger]

You expect dream sequences to make sense?

My dreams make sense! But there again, they aint about the garden!

[veggiechicken]

And you won't be telling them here

[Cadalot]

The extension to the shed is currently being used to dry my onions, the shelf is on hinges and lifts up so I can use for growing tomatoes in under cover if not using it as a cold frame for hardening off plants or drying onions. I may need another fold up shelf in there me thinks.

[Nannysally99]

Brilliant idea Cad

[Cadalot]

Thanks, all upcycled, free and scrap materials apart from the screws which came from the shed and the hinges that came from the 99p shop as I didn't have any in the shed. I'm going to build one on the other allotment but it will be fixed back to the wall on one of my boundaries

Forgot to post my gallows brackets made from roofing battens



I didn't have time to lower and fix the fames directly to the wall so I ended up hanging the new gallows brackets off the existing hanging basket brackets.

This means they are higher that they should be and that the cantilevering bamboo now aligns with the strut rather than the top member but it will do for this year.

I may tweak the brackets and fix at a lower level over the winter months, if I think it will be better lower down.