Is anyone else turning into a Womble?

[Sue]

Hi
My best find was a display cabinet that a shoe shop had thrown out. It's made of clear thick plastic mounted on a metal frame with three shelves. The big curved frontage opens up and it's ideal for siting right next to the window to keep my seedlings safe from the cats.
It weighs a ton and nearly had a hernia dragging it home.
Second best was the hugest cardboard box you've ever seen, bigger than my kitchen... Had to walk home inside it dragging and lifting it home, but cut up into portable chunks made a great mulch for my allotment.
You seem to lose all sense of shame when you get an allotment...
Sue

[carlseawolf]

I use bed springs stood on edge for pea frames.

[veggielover]

This weekend my neighbours had a skip out the front of their house, i noticed some tyres in it and made my hubby ask if we could have them for planters........ not only was the neighbour throwing these, they also have 2 rather large solid wood planters, some medium planters and a few hanging baskets. Right now all of these items are in my garden waiting to be put to use!!!

Thank god for good neighbours!!

i've also been saving the loo rolls and empty bottles........

[-pat m]

Me too

· Son’s old football goal and net for my peas
· Great broody chicken coop made out of thrown away ply board
· A 7 ft x 5 ft ridged pond liner that had a crack (repaired by £2 repair kit) for my new duck pond!!! I am sooo excited about getting my ducks)
· A year ago an old shed in a house being renovated that was free if I took it away!! 15ft x 8ft a new coat of protection and new roof and It has turned into my main chicken house
· Paper pots instead of peat ones thank you forum advice)
· And last but not least my beautiful trolley (see pic’s on my page) which was reduced 40% - not free but great value!!!
· Happy hunting

Regards
Pat

[veggielover]

Forgot to mention..... easter is on its way, the plastic moulds that protect the chocolate eggs will make great cloches!!!! and an excuse to eat more chocolate!!!!

[Snadger]

I just got some 2 "by 1" wood from a church roof to make a netting screen around on of my beds to cut down wind damage and pest control.

Round here they just nick the lead off it!

[Snadger]

I tend to 'aquire' things then have a brainstorming session wondering what I can make with them.

My 'Piece de resistance' at the mo is an octagonal chicken coop made from eight hardwood doors. The plan was to build something with eight doors and NOT make it look like it had been made with eight doors!

I'll post a piccie when it's finished as I'm quite proud of it!

My pond, made from an old bath was another inspirational find and looks nothing like an old bath!

[NSB]

My Oh dreads me slowin down when I see a skip. he wont let me to the dump on my own in case i bring some bits back. I did once I brought back garden furniture that was white metal like a little bistro table and 4 chairs, I will always remind him of my bargain find as 2 years later we sold it for £190! I am a womble as I lived in Wimbledon

[-pat m]

I tend to 'aquire' things then have a brainstorming session wondering what I can make with them.

My 'Piece de resistance' at the mo is an octagonal chicken coop made from eight hardwood doors. The plan was to build something with eight doors and NOT make it look like it had been made with eight doors!

I'll post a piccie when it's finished as I'm quite proud of it!

My pond, made from an old bath was another inspirational find and looks nothing like an old bath!

We want a pic in progress post!!!
Pat

[Eco-Chic]

I'm curious as to know what you propose to do with the bed springs!!!Climbing frame for peas?What has been your best "find", everyone?

The double bed springs will be used to repair the south border larch lap fence which is FUBAR. The singles were intended to be pea frames, but I'm wondering whether they would work as a fruit cage if I got a couple more singles and used the galvanised mesh I'm currently using to fence in the dogs, as a roof

I got the idea for the rusty springs from a freecycler who had them attached to a whitewashed wall. Nothing growing on it but it made a simple statement in a very busy garden.

[snakeshack]

i have used old wire from bt to make plant supports,the glass bits from washing machine doors make great bell cloches,my wheel barrow came from a skip and only reqired minor repair with a club hammer,and finally old broken drain rods and scrounged netting off a building site for brassica netting.
my wife scooched down in the car yesterday and tried to hide while I knocked and recycled offcuts of polycarbonate roofing from a skip,i'm still not sure if it was worth the 50 lashes from her tongue for a new cold frame though

[womble]

Aha, I have been wombling for quite a while!

I actually get excited when I go past a skip, it's the anticipation.

My garden look like someone has taken a big skip and turned it upside down scattering things everywhere.

I've started teaching my little one about skip diving and we are going to start together soon.

Wombling is the life

[veggielover]

Ha ha skip in school playground this morning!!! sooooo tempted but my kids wouldn't let me!!

[faerieprincess]

School skip

Ha ha skip in school playground this morning!!! sooooo tempted but my kids wouldn't let me!!

Ooh, a school skip would be great - they're not supposed to use toxic things in there, so building remnants etc would be great for an allotment.

[Irie Jan]

I only have may garden and my greenhouse, this wil be my first year growing things in a long long time,! I have been saving all sorts of things wondering if fit can be used for starting seeds or used in the garden. I even have some friends been saving things for me!