Make your own Growbags

[muckdiva]

Here's a good use for some of those old plastic carrier bags multiplying in your kitchen cupboards.... Just fill with compost, well rotted muck etc and use as a single plant growbag, light enough to move around if necessary.

I'd like to take credit for this tip, but it was actually published in a little book called Superhints for Gardeners, compiled by The Lady Wardington. It contains quite a few good tips and (if its still in print?), royalties from sales go to the Katherine House Hospice.

[rustylady]

Yes, but carrier bags tend to disintegrate rather easily. I'd far rather use a large pot.

[Sue]

Muckdiva
Think you'd be ok with the really thick bags like Lakeland's but the flimsy bags do disintigrate as RL says, I lined some baskets with them and at the end of the season had a fine time picking the distintigrated bits out of the soil.
Sue

[muckdiva]

Muckdiva
Think you'd be ok with the really thick bags like Lakeland's but the flimsy bags do disintigrate as RL says, I lined some baskets with them and at the end of the season had a fine time picking the distintigrated bits out of the soil.
Sue

Good point, I will use the the thicker type of bag (actually have quite a few old compost bags that will probably do the job better), but will let you know how I get on with the experiment this year - I have run out of large pots and am trying to re-use, recycle.... and all that