Growing in Crates

Crikey! They cost about twenty quid each. Where have they been liberated from?

Mine have come from the local Freebie group - not all at once, usually 2/3 at a time. Collecting 4 yesterday was a highlight!!
There are a couple in a skip down the road but I'm afraid to take them as they seem to be holding back a pile of rubbish.

Did you ever tell us what you were going to use the crates for?

Did you ever tell us what you were going to use the crates for?

I don't think she had any Idea and was just picking peoples brains for their ideas.

I use them in spring with old compost to to get dahlias to shoot in a GH before planting out.

Sorry to disagree Mark   , I think veggie always has an idea    . Just doesn’t always follow the idea up with actually doing it   . Even then a lot of the time someone else will be trialling veggies idea   . Because no matter how crazy and off the wall some of the ideas are, they still sound perfectly plausible and worth giving a go      .

I'd always intended to use them as mini "raised" beds - literally "raised" as they were up on a table. I lined 4 with cardboard to stop the compost from falling through the holes and sowed carrots in 2 and planted strawberry runners in the other 2.
The "table" they were on had to be dismantled earlier this year as it was collapsing, so I carried the crates down the garden and put them down on another piece of cardboard to keep the grass down.
It did work and I had some carrots from then. Unfortunately, I failed to keep on top of the watering and the strawberries have dried up.

They get Plus points for being easily movable, even when full and for using to create growing space where none previously existed (like patios). Minus points because of the need to water them but that applies to anything in containers.

I may (not a promise) put some up on the table in GH3 over winter to enable me to grow more winter crops.
I still have a stack of them unused

Did you ever tell us what you were going to use the crates for?

I don't think she had any Idea and was just picking peoples brains for their ideas.

I use them in spring with old compost to to get dahlias to shoot in a GH before planting out.

Actually, the clue was in the title of the thread.