polystyrene box

[charmaine]

hi all i have a big rougly 600x600 polystyrene box that my medication was delivered in and as this is my first growing season i was wondering what if any thing i could grow in it also has a lid it also has fairly thick walls thanx charmaine

[Paulottie]

Sheet of glass/perspex/bubblewrap on top and it will make a good propagator. Store seeds in it. Make holes in the bottom and sow leeks in it.

That's 3 anyway

[charmaine]

thank you for your suggestions i will right them down or i will forget lol

[Bigmallly]

Perfect for carrots & parsnips......2 foot square is a decent size box.

[Rhona]

Depends what you enjoy and what you already grow - you could try lots of different things in it! Maybe a cut and come again salad box, some hearting lettuces. With the type of material and having a lid, you could even experiment with some mushrooms?

[gillian62]

On Gardener's world online there is a video that shows presenter using one of these boxes to grow courgettes or beetroot in.

[SlugLobber]

Depends what you enjoy and what you already grow - you could try lots of different things in it! Maybe a cut and come again salad box, some hearting lettuces. With the type of material and having a lid, you could even experiment with some mushrooms?

I was going to suggest mushies. Things in polystyrene sweat a bit and beware that it will leak even if you don't put holes in (have left them out in the lab before with ice in and come back to a flood!!).

[SlugLobber]

Depends what you enjoy and what you already grow - you could try lots of different things in it! Maybe a cut and come again salad box, some hearting lettuces. With the type of material and having a lid, you could even experiment with some mushrooms?

I was going to suggest mushies. Things in polystyrene sweat a bit and beware that it will leak even if you don't put holes in (have left them out in the lab before with ice in and come back to a flood!!).

[piskieinboots]

I seem to remember Wayne asking this question a year ago (or more!) - wonder what he did with his?

Yooo hooo Wayne.....

[charmaine]

thank you every one i have wrote them all down. we love mushrooms and i also baught 15 lolo rosso lettuce plugs from aldi today for £1.99 along with some toms peppers and strawberries

[marathon]

at present i have several on the go, thanks to a neighbour who has her meat delivered from Scotland three times a year.

Salad bar 1.5ft x 3ft
carrots sown in early Jan 1.5ft x 3ft
leeks 1ft x 1.5ft
beetroot 1ft x 1.5ft
and I also use them for protecting my tomato plants and pepper plants etc when I first put them in the polytunnel.

I have a good supply of these boxes but I've found some from last year are still suitable to use again.

[charmaine]

thats good to hear i had some other bits of polystyrene in rectangular pieces could i use this for something also

[Jax]

I was going to suggest mushrooms but already been said. I dint realise you can get medication delivered lol

[marathon]

thats good to hear i had some other bits of polystyrene in rectangular pieces could i use this for something also

try it, the boxes she gives me are off a decent size with the depth of some being deeper than others. Guys down the lottie laughed when I said I was going to plant in them (that was two years ago) guess who has lots of requests for spare ones

I like the courgette idea, I normally start an early one in the polytunnel and then when the outside ones take off I compost the PT one. If grown in one of the boxes I could just move it outside. I'll check out the monty video

[Glutton4...]

A deep one would make a fab incubator/brooder!