The new plastic raised beds were filled with Buddleia branches, old tree rings, strawy fym, well rotted last years fym and top soil.
There's another two or three raised beds that need drilling drainage holes and dragged through the Haggard and through to the veg plot and they will filled with the same ingredients by yours truly.
I am going to look out for any more containers that I can repurpose to grow vegetables in.
Like I keep saying on here you don't need to have a garden to grow your own chemical free and fresh vegetables.
It really saddens me when I read online of allotment waiting lists in England. It's the councils duty by law to provide allotments and leisure gardens to people who request them and not to be Tory councils who flog them off to some private housing company.
I once lived in a council flat and I grew potatoes 🥔 in the upstairs window.
Perhaps there should be an Allotment and Social Housing party or maybe it's time Labour created a Minister for the Allotments and Social Housing? They should aim for the rural vote and for people in urban areas who wish to grow things locally. I am available on a part-time basis?
I am pleased with my raised bed planters. They may be made of plastic but they're maintenance free. "It's beginning to look a lot like Steptoe's". Remember their address? Oil drum Lane. What was the carthorse called? Hercules. I don't think plastic is ever going to go away, do you?
That looks quite neat, all lined up and ready to go.
ReplyDeleteThanks JayCee. The earth is a bit cloity and could have been hoed and raked to a much finer tilth but the veggies seem to be thriving and I am pleased with my efforts. Thanks and have a good Easter.
ReplyDeleteI loved Hercules.
ReplyDeletePlastic won't go away, so we must reduce drastically any new plastic, and re use the old.
Hercules was great GZ. We seem to think plastics are like cars a necessary evil. I sometimes see organic vegetables in plastic bags.
DeleteI think they do that to make sure that no-one sneaks them through as non organic..and so cheaper
DeleteThat makes perfect sense. I saw some organic carrots in a plastic bag from Israel. So much for air miles?
DeleteI vaguely remember the Steptoe and Son series.
ReplyDeleteYou will find them on YouTube I guess River.
ReplyDeleteYour planters are a perfect recycling project, historic plastic exist and all we can do is use the stuff, and not let it go to landfill. So many people would have purchased new, our raised beds are made from the decking planks we removed in our refit, hubby used the frame and reused the screws as well. This year I have gone back to seeds, to stop any more plastic pots coming here.
ReplyDeleteThanks Marlene. A lot of plastic can not be made into new plastic and end up in landfill. Plants in particular. People I know give me their unwanted plastic plant pots. I have used 25 so far today potting up new cuttings.
ReplyDeleteYes - in about five hundred years your plastic tanks should have crumbled and returned to the earth but the plastic dust that remains will continue to pollute the soil. In that sense they won't ever go away. By the way, using cunning internet research, I now know your surname. Is your dyslexic sister married to Patrick Kielty?
ReplyDeleteCan I recommend a book called Blueprint For A Green Planet by John Seymour YP? It's excellent with diagrams of plastic decaying...
ReplyDeleteWe use old olive oil tins..big ones. Also any large plastic containers that K finds in the rubbish. Old washing up bowls, the old wheelbarrow and 300 litre plastic wine barrels cut in half. The wheelbarrow is best. It's higher off the ground
ReplyDeleteK sounds like me Linda. I oncegrew potatoes in a stainless steel drum from a washing machine. I knew an allotment grower who planted the eyes from his potatoes peelings and he had a fine harvest from them.
ReplyDeleteIt took me over 15 years to reach the top of our council allotments list, when they offered me one 5 miles away rather than at the end of the street as I'd asked for. I decided our garden was enough to cope with by then.
ReplyDeleteHi Tasker. When I first rented my allotment thirty years ago. There were no waiting lists and plenty of overgrown allotments. I never read of any new allotment sites in Blighty. Thanks.
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