Can't get enough of you

List, to be continued, of the stuff I just can't get enough of ...

1. Crocks
No, not your folks, the bits of broken pot you chuck in the bottom of containers to aid drainage. I find it a nice way of holding onto favourite pieces of china that I manage to smash now and again (why is it always the good stuff that breaks?)

2. Buckets
I currently have at least four buckets kicking around (fnar ...) Two are full of stinking comfrey tea. One is empty and the other one has pea netting in it.

3. Compost sacks
Empty, they're great for lining pots to help slow down evaporation.

4. Cardboard
Useful for oh so many things. Current pile being ripped up to put just under the surface of the soil around my tomatoes in containers to help keep moisture in. Ingenious eh?

Comments

[Allotment Blogger]

I'll see you four buckets and raise you:

I have two 'planted' buckets: one with a temporary planting of mint while I build something more permanent for it and one that holds a dock plant for dealing with nettle stings

I have two 'water plunge' buckets: for soaking seedlings before transplanting them - people are very generous about giving us veg plants in pots, but they usually arrive in an arid state!

Then there is the stone bucket: into which I chuck all the stones I find on the allotment so they can be used to make base-linings for the raised beds we want to build in the winter, it stops the beds getting waterlogged if you have a layer of stones at the bottom

And finally there's the harvest bucket: as I harvest beetroot or peas or whatever, they go into this bucket to be sorted out later.

That's six buckets. Then there are the two with holes in that I'll use to force rhubarb next year so that's eight.

I am an eight-bucket allotment holder!

[Natalie El-Barrawi]

1.I can't get enough of my copper tools. Unfortunately they keep adding to the range and I'm now resorting to making up a use for them to justify each new acquisition.

2.Black Plastic sheeting is the other stuff I never have enough of.
I have yards and yards of it but you always seem to need more to cover beds, hide stuff,suppress weedy corners and cover manure and compost piles. Shame it hides all those slugs and snails but it was free and the proper landscaping stuff is pricy.

3.Trugs trugs trugs(8) all colors of the rainbow but never a spare one to be had as they're always full of stuff,compost, good for moving big plants in-one handle per person,sweeping up into,pouring and dipping liquids,mixing up composts,chucking in weeds,harvesting and all stack-able (and not as noisy as buckets when you drag them about)
I spotted a giant sized one the other day-for horses I think and at a push could be used upside down as a rain shelter for those who are shedless on the lotty.

[Woody Wilbury]

It's also one of the great rules of camping - you can never have enough buckets!

[Bill Dockery]

1. Crocks
Wow!
I have been doing that for years -- putting broken pieces of my favorite dishes & pottery into the the bottom of flower pots. It's probably not healthy (psychologically), but when I replant it reminds me of the dish I enjoyed so much. It adds meaning to what would otherwise be gravel. And it's fodder for future archeologists.

I even expanded it (to my ex-wife's dismay). My backyard is walled into the side of the hill -- a 15-foot masonry wall that makes an intimate garden setting. For survival's sake, the wall has weep holes -- three-inch concrete pipes set every four or five feet in a diamond pattern across the whole wall. I used those little cavities as places to display broken figurines, plates, etc. Tacky -- but meaningful -- but tacky.

Bill
Knoxville