Garden utility ideas

What is the best idea you have come up with or seen to use in the garden , I recently posted about how I used some toilet roll tubes as plant pots what's your ideas?.

 

use all the bricks and rubble that comes up when digging a bit deeper for a rockery
dunno what to do with old fridges though, fortunately it has only been bricks and some wires and the odd bit of plastic sheet so far, there was one bigger thing made from concrete which I didn't explore further

 

I'm not telling you, It may make me my fortune if I can get off my backside and do something about it ! Cheers, Tony.

 

come on mate share .........lol

come on guys there only ideas to make things easier or cheaper cant be that hard to let ya secrets go?.

 

Made some greenhouse shading recently. Didn't want to spending £30 on netting, which would be a pain to store so made these from old curtain inner linings.Each panel fits one section of the greenhouse roof.



In order to attach it I had to replace all the bolts in the spars of the roof where the panels were to hang. Other half had some m6(?) bolts which he kindly drilled a hole into the side of the thread for me. He had to file the head of the bolt down slightly too so we could fit the glass panes back on flush.

I then threaded wire through the holes in the thread of each bolt and then into the corner of each panel and pulled them quite tight so they won't sag.

That picture was taken in late march I think when we were having really sunny days. Obviously with the wet weather here I have taken one or two down.

Haven't seen anyone else do something like this and thought about making a thread on it but it didn't seem worth it really.

 

They are excellent and putting otherwise unwanted stuff to a new good use. Love 'em.
They may not last forever as the scorching Summer sun (we hope it makes a visit this year) may well perish it -make it brittle? Would love to know how it fares JJ,
Jenny namaste

 

Well as soon as I put them up the temperature dropped from 50 degrees to 20. I really need to replace my thermometer though as I don't think it's giving the correct temperature half the time.

 

Plant labels from aluminium sheet - lots of members have bought them via ebay, and just a few still available. Search 'Reclaimed Metal Plant Labels'

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Reclaimed...666971149&po=&ps=63&clkid=7927437245609275610

Think we've known you long enough Alex

 

Not as nice as Alex's ones but I make lables from the sides of plastic milk bottles & paint them.

 

Every time someone in our house has a yoghurt, instead of the pot going in the bin, it gets washed out and saved. Then I make some drain holes in the bottom, and they become ideal for starting seeds off in. When I haven't got enough, instead of buying actual pots, I've been known to buy packs of 100 plastic drinks cups of the sort intended for toddler's birthday parties and the likes.

I've also used the bog role tubes, and will do again. I'm going to start my parsley off in them because parsley grows a tap root so prefers not to have its roots disturbed, so you shove the whole thing in the ground and of course the cardboard will eventually just go.

I was lucky enough that I found a large piece of busted fishing net down the beach. Some of it came home with me and is now secured in position for some peas to climb up, also doubling as a partition to divide my garden up.

Having run out of shelf space in my blowaway greenhouse, first I found an old plank of wood and positioned it on two upturned cheap buckets, and then when that was full I smashed my mate's double bed up for the wood inside it, and used it to make a bench/shelf.

For a long time now my motto has been Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. (Ok, I can't take the credit for that one). Mostly the Reuse bit. Faced with a choice of spending my money to line the pockets of some corporate fat cat while something I can use is going to landfill, or getting something for free with the only price being the requirement to use my imagination to figure out how to best work with what's there, I usually tried to do the latter.

 

Pot noodles are brill for pots too, very sturdy & will last for years.

 

yeah this is what am on about guys ideas for all of us to share. i love the blinds you made, you can come and put some in my house if you like they looked that good, lol . pot noodle pots never thought of them, i shall save them from now on , more ideas tho guys come on if we all have 1 idea each and then put on here we will all be like monty don in no time!!!!!!! lol

 

Pot noodle pots are awesome. Don't know about the contents though

 

If we all have one idea and put them on here, we'll have a collection of about 10,000 ideas

That's about how many users GC has got I think.