Is anyone else turning into a Womble?

[faerieprincess]

A question for all you wombles - can glass jars be used for storing seeds? Or are they better in paper envelopes? I have a growing collection of baby food jars which I thought could be used for collecting seeds from some of my crop, but not sure if that is a good way to store seed.

[womble]

I dunno, I always keep mine in paper envelopes, works for me.

Ask me about paddling pools, bits of wood and pallets, quite good on those.

[faerieprincess]

Wow, a response from a REAL womble!

I'll bare that in mind, if I have a pallet question, YOU'RE the Womble!!!!

[veggielover]

what have we started?? lol..... i just been in garden, seen one of my old metal clothes horses thought hmmmm, took it apart, bent one of the sections in half, put some clear thick clingfilm type stuff and hey presto i got another cloche!!!!

[faerieprincess]

Oooh, we've got a broken clothes horse which 'was' going to be thrown out. Climbing frame for beans and peas now, I think!!!!

[Twinkle]

old washer drums make a great fire-pit - stand on 4 bricks and voilá

[lez]

you are not alone as O to squirrel stuff away and several times have given it on to others to use. my thing was pots and I had hundreds in shuttle trays to the point where I forget what I have got. I ahve two sheds on the lottie and can just get into one to brew up and no chance in the other as I have to take things out in order to get in. I love it though. A chap on our site has a homemade extended/built added onto shed and I had look round with him as if you want anything from a 6" nail to a plough he seems to have it and I must admit to everyone else it's junk but I was in heaven in this alladins cave. cheers now and good luck to all in this new season.

[Creemteez]

Husband bought me home another pallet this evening - bless him!- Some women need jewellery, some need flowers or hand-written poetry....He knows what floats my boat. OOooh! A boat! What I could do with a boat!

[cupcake]

When I saw this thread I thought you were referring to my expanding waistline and facial hair

[kitchengardner]

Since obtaining my new lottie, I have noticed a strange malaise has overtaken me! I am completely unable to throw anything away without first wieghing up its potential usefulness on the plot.
Loo roll innards, plastic mushroom and meat trays, water and pop bottles are all being squirreled away in the barn for future use.
My job in a bakery gives me access to unlimited brown paper sacks (weed suppressers?), plastic jam buckets, 25ltr veg oil canisters and catering sized fruit cans
My Wombling instincts have now turned to further horizons and I find myself waiting impatiently for Husband to get home so that I can check out what odments he has got left over from any jobs (Home maintenance and decorating). Yesterday he bought home a lovely lot of thick, foil backed insulation, which I intend to use as a base for my coldframe. Then today, my friend had to physically restrain me from dragging two pallets that had been washed up on the beach back with me.
I s'pose I just like the thought of getting use out of rubbish...and saving the old pennies as well, but I am thinking about renaming my home "The Burrow"!

I am proud to have been a Womble for many years and have to be prevented from skip diving on a regular basis by my OH

Regards

Kitchen Gardener

[miffy]

I looked in the shed last weekend and instead of seeing a lot of clutter i thought, oh that old wire bed base would make a fab frame for growing my outdoor cucumbers and courgettes!! and some old hula hoops at school that had split in too were going to be chucked but i asked for them to use as hoops to make cloches on the lottie, reusing is so much greener than recycling so yep reackon i am a womble!!
All together now, the wombles of the allotment are we, making a use of the things that we see.....

[Hans Mum]

i asked next door for their old bath cause you can he says but its got a crack in it (think he thought i was going to plumb it in) nah its for my carrots i said....and ive got a friend of a friend whos a plumber and he just drops old baths on my drive and i give them to others at the lottie

[snakeshack]

A question for all you wombles - can glass jars be used for storing seeds? Or are they better in paper envelopes? I have a growing collection of baby food jars which I thought could be used for collecting seeds from some of my crop, but not sure if that is a good way to store seed.

glassjars are fine especially with those little silica gel dessicant packs you get wit electrical equipment etc dry them in the oven and they will absorb moisture from your seeds,or ask a bt engineer for some dessicant packs

[Edwardo82]

Turning to the dark side I like the origins of this post good work

[faerieprincess]

Glass jars

glassjars are fine especially with those little silica gel dessicant packs you get wit electrical equipment etc dry them in the oven and they will absorb moisture from your seeds,or ask a bt engineer for some dessicant packs

Thanks for that - I didn't even think of using the silica packs. I have a friend whose an engineer (not for BT though) will have to see if he has some

I guess the trick is to make sure your seeds are thoroughly dry before you pop them in - not necessarily easy in a British autumn.