What's Your Best Freebie?

[Storming Norman]

This year so far I have been given, or found!:

a spade
a fork
a hoe
a rake
various hand tools
a hand cart
a wheel barrow
a pair of shears
three compost bins [two complete with compost and one straight out of a skip - yikes]
a gooseberry plant
an electric propagator
a water butt
A fair bit of quality wood to provide netting supports [yes skip diving again]

What a year eh? How about that for a start to my new allotment?

The funny thing is that there is a 8 foot greenhouse abandoned at the allotment on the opposite plot, that no-one has gone for. What is the world coming to? But the plots are so small and watering would be such an issue with the greenhouse that it is a plot no-one wants to take on.

[chriscross1966]

Hmm.. either the wheelbarrow (a big Chillington) or the gate through which I push it (had a low chickenwire fence as standard on my plot) or the bulk bags, topsoil and manure which I grew a lot of my stuff in this year (to kill off weeds under the mulch plastic.... or the powerspade (sproing...fling!)
Aa freecycle or skipdiving.....
chrisc

[Bren In Pots]

I'm another one who was given a greenhouse

[womble]

A skip full of scaffold planks. Built all of my raised beds and a floor in a spare bedroom.

And yesterday thanks to a friend, about 2 tons of well rotted horse manure, fully guaranteed to be free of any nasties

A free ancient cultivator, that I don't use anymore, but is too interesting to get rid of.

Oh yes, flower buckets.

A neighbour who has a massive compost heap, I can take what I want.

[pdblake]

Greenhouse here too

This year I've accumulated enough free seed online that I won't need to buy a lot of basics for quite a while.

[elsie-scot]

wow to all!

I've had a few things, have to say the best this year being the two free tomato plants I got from a guy giving a veg growing talk - nobody else wanted them! They have been very genorous in their produce.

[Flummery]

Oh yes, I was given a Dalek compost bin for my lottie - I've got 3 at home already.

[Aileen35]

2 Compost bins,2 water butts, 4 dustbins (storing water), tonnes of wooden planks, green fence paint, patio chair, spade, fork, fence posts, net curtains, wood chips all from freecycle.

[RedThorn]

My 12 x 6 ft greenhouse and loads of scaffold boards for raised beds!

[susieq100]

A big plastic dustbin, loads of big pots and planters from my next door neighbour.
Pallets, timber, bricks and cardboard boxes from the lads at work. I haven't actually bought any of the stuff I've made my beds with at the plot. Spent a lot on netting and blue pipe though.

[HotStuff]

Sorry, I can't remember her name, but it was about 20 years ago on Corfu

[snakeshack]

gotta be my shed at the top of the list then the scaffold planks that made up the 16 eight ft by 4 ft beds,closely followed by the vast quantities of fresh horse manure I had to rot down(around 15m3)

[raine]

after my car was stolen, with all my late dads tools in-my friend gave me a pair of gloves and secaters, a trowel and a fork- meant a lot!

[Pumpkin Becki]

Two bags of pony poo every week, from the village postmistress. Its fresh though, so I'll have to stash it somewhere for 18 months or so before I use it.

A plastic chair, one given to each of the allotments by the landlord. A very welcome gift.

Loads of plants for the new garden, donated and grown by my MiL.

There's one more, but my minds gone blank...I'll be back.

[HeyWayne]

Here's mine:



It goes for miles!