RE-USE IN THE GARDEN - Need your help please!!!!!

 


Hello,

I'm a university student studying for my final year at Sheffield Hallam
and I
need to complete some research on garden recycling and re-use. I'd
really
appreciate it if you could take the time to answer a few
questions, even if
they're only short answers, anything's good!

What kind of things do you recycle in a garden?

Do you use things/objects for other purposes and if so what are they
and for
what purposes are they used?

Anyone got any stories about interesting and creative ways of re-using
things??


Thanks!

Rose Perkins


--
spaceclanger

 

spaceclanger wrote:
:: Hello,
::
:: I'm a university student studying for my final year at Sheffield
:: Hallam and I need to complete some research on garden recycling
:: and re-use. I'd really appreciate it if you could take the time to
:: answer a few questions, even if they're only short answers,
:: anything's good!
::
:: What kind of things do you recycle in a garden?
::
Everything, vegatation composts down to help produce more vegetation, solids
like timber and bricks etc are re-used time and again.

:: Do you use things/objects for other purposes and if so what are
:: they and for
:: what purposes are they used?
::
empty plastic drinks bottles with the bottoms cut off have a few uses, they
can be pressed into the ground over tender plants to make mini cloches, or
turned over with the wide end facing upwards they can be fixed into growbags
to fill with water, allowing a more thorough soaking.

old dustbins are filled with water to use as water butts.

Old video tapes are broken into and the tape fastened to stakes in a net
fashion, it makes a hideous racket when the wind blows on it and birds don't
like it, old CD's hung on cotton have a similar use, they flash and scare
birds away.

:: Anyone got any stories about interesting and creative ways of
:: re-using things??

There's probably at least a hundred others but I can't think of them..


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If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.

 



If you check out our (barely begun) site -
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ourallotment

You'll find in misc photos pics of the obelisk I made by welding old
horseshoes together, the planter I made out of the big plastic tubes found
in the middle of rolls of carpet, and the undersoil irrigation I put in the
greenhouse on the allotment, made out of  some waste pipe and fittings I
rescued from a skip.

Also all my manure and compost bins are made from old pallets, as are the
raised beds, duckboards, and the shelving and seat-cum-toolchest in the
shed.

Various water containers rescued from skips collect the rainwater from the
shed and greenhouse, via guttering also from skips, natch. The planking on
top of the compost bins in the garden, on top of which yet another water
tank sits, came from pontoons at a quay in Poole harbour.

The pond in the garden was on it's way to the tip when I rescued it. I
wouldn't have bothered, but I had a fibreglass repair kit lying about at the
time. Guess where that came from.

The small shed in the garden is made from timber diverted from on it's way
to the tip, and has a roof made of an aluminium sheet which started life as
a double garage door. Mind you you don't want to be in the shed when it
hails :-))

And lots of other stuff.

I have been lucky in having long been involved in scrap metal and waste
disposal, or at least on the fringes, and being a natural scrounger. Perhaps
you can tell.

Steve

 

shazzbat wrote:
[...]

That's interesting, but counter-intuitive to me: what's the advantage
of having the irrigation underneath?

--
Mike.

 

On Sat, 28 May 2005 13:21:28 +0100, "Mike Lyle"


Saves water.
Less evaporation.

Regards,



--
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showardshwoodwindcouk