I was working on my potato and onion patch, then rain stopped me finishing so I moved into the poly tunnel, harvested the last of my cavolo nero then dug over the raised beds added seaweed, BFB and chicken manure pellets. I also watered my garlic and my first earlies.
(02-04-2022, 10:35 PM)Farendwoman Wrote: [ -> ]Do you not have a garden centre that recycles plastic pots nearby? Ours has an area for customers to dump pots - but also allows cheapskates like me to help themselves. It keeps down the costs for them of having the pots taken away, but also reduces “single use” plastics. I reuse my pots over and over until they are beyond use. I haven’t bought any new pots for yonks!
I don't know of any nearby garden centres that are accessible by public transport. There's a nursery about a 35-minute walk away (actually probably quite a bit longer when hills are taken into account!), but it's mostly via a narrow lane with lots of speeding cars and uphill on the way back (*ahem* I'm assuming I wouldn't find myself just coming back with some lightweight plant pots...)
I probably do have quite a few small pots somewhere, but most of my things are still in storage. My parents have brought some of my gardening supplies over, but the little pots haven't made an appearance yet!
Helping out at daughters Deli this morning as she is short staffed. Kato got an early walk but it was nice to hear the dawn chorus for a change!
(02-04-2022, 10:48 PM)Proserpina Wrote: [ -> ] (02-04-2022, 10:35 PM)Farendwoman Wrote: [ -> ]Do you not have a garden centre that recycles plastic pots nearby? Ours has an area for customers to dump pots - but also allows cheapskates like me to help themselves. It keeps down the costs for them of having the pots taken away, but also reduces “single use” plastics. I reuse my pots over and over until they are beyond use. I haven’t bought any new pots for yonks!
I don't know of any nearby garden centres that are accessible by public transport. There's a nursery about a 35-minute walk away (actually probably quite a bit longer when hills are taken into account!), but it's mostly via a narrow lane with lots of speeding cars and uphill on the way back (*ahem* I'm assuming I wouldn't find myself just coming back with some lightweight plant pots...)
I probably do have quite a few small pots somewhere, but most of my things are still in storage. My parents have brought some of my gardening supplies over, but the little pots haven't made an appearance yet!
I’m pretty lucky that I can walk to one in about 15 minutes. The “most generous pot supplier” is a drive away, but it’s near to where I do my supermarket shop so I can kill two birds with one stone.
I have a shop at the end of the garden that's full of pots. Shopkeeper keeps finding caches of pots that he tries to offload on me............one day I'll help him out and give them away.
Shame you're not nearer, Pros.
OR You could make your own paper pots.
https://schoolgardening.rhs.org.uk/Resou...paper-pots
I sowed some salad item seeds, then pricked out my mystery tomato seedlings and potted them on.
Potted on Kales and the last of the sunflowers.
Started digging plot 3 ready to position the 2 greenhouses
I've been out in the garden today, tidying up around the chicken coop, piled up a couple of barrows full of rubble from where the greenhouse is going, and dug a trench for the base of the greenhouse, finally! Jay's busy organising the nuts and bolts to put the base frame together, and he cut the grass and strimmed the grass in the ditch outside our garden. Lovely day when it was sunny, freezing cold when it wasn't!