Best use of an old bookcase?

[Nicos]

Why thankyou Seahorse...we clearly come from the same planet!!!

[Seahorse]

Why thankyou Seahorse...we clearly come from the same planet!!!

Shh! We don't want the Men in Black turning up with their van again

I've been trying to work out which window I need least!

[bubblewrap]

Shh! We don't want the Men in Black turning up with their van again

I've been trying to work out which window I need least!

It's the men in white coats that you don't want.

[Alice]

If you don't have a wood burning stove Hazel, I would just take it to the tip. Sorry, but can't see a real use for it. We can all make a case if we want to end up with the midden all round the door.
(There's a very upper middle class village close to here, property costs an arm and a leg, and it looks like a midden. Total junk everywhere, but I'm sure they might find a use for some of it someday.)

[smallblueplanet]

Round here you would use it to decorate your back garden, along with a rotting TV, disabled freezer and several split binliners ...

Could be right there?

Just take it down the tip and buy a proper wooden one next time!

[smallblueplanet]

chipboard is full of glue and formaldehyde isn't it? Yuk

Could be right there?

Just take it down the tip and buy a proper wooden one next time!

[Snadger]

Chipboard burns really well in a woodburning stove but the chimney smokes like George Stephensons Rocket!

I have usd an old cupboard as a makeshift root clamp for my tatties! Dug a hollow, filled with straw,piled the tatties on top,put the cupboard around tatties and packed the sides with straw. Put the soil I dug from the hollow over the top of the straw and just poke my hand in through the soil and the straw to collect enough tatties for my immediate needs! It wouldn't matter if it was chipboard as once the spring comes and the tatties are finished it's surplus to requirements and becomes stove or bonfire fodder!

I suppose it's a bit of a waste of time if you have no root veg left to store though!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Cheers, grapes!

Thanks for all your suggestions!

I thought that BW's suggestion of using the bookcase for storage in the garage (to be devoted to pickles and chutneys and stuff) was fab, but it's likely to be a bit tight to get the car in too. (see Haze open the car door, knock the bookcase and get buried under an avalanch of pickle jars...)

I won't use it for a raised bed as I can see that it's going to turn into mush...I have my potatoes stored in paper sacks in the garage already so don't need it for a clamp, thanks, Snadge.

Sorry, HW, I really don't know what's possessed you to suggest the photo frame wotsits - my house is full of junk enough already

Quite tempted by the seed trays in the spare room idea, but as the appropriate room has just had noo carpet laid and been decorated, that's out (although I did think about in the loft room, but it's pretty dark under the velux, and I'll have seed trays on a table up there anyway)

And I don't have Seahorse's pyromaniacal tendancies , so it's to the tip with it, I think.....

[Winged one]

On a related note (and I am loving some of the suggestions!!) - would a north facing spare window be suitable for seed trays? Cos my unheated spare bedroom faces North (just about NNE) and currently has slatted wooden blinds, so I could pull those up and put seed trays there instead (maybe even on a shelving unit from the attic!!). Would that be a worthwhile idea?

Otherwise, they would be in a fully south facing window in a well heated room with lots of passing traffic and draughts from the back door opening a lot?

We usually buy plants as seedling fail miserably for us, but with the new extension was going to give them another chance this year - and spare room sounds good too.

So NNE or S - which is best?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Jus' coz I don't know doesn't stop me venturing an opinion so for what it's worth, I think the S facing room will be too hot/drafty for the seedlings, so I'd use the NNE one.