Archive for the 'Gardening on a budget' Category

Good Day’s Work

catherine June 7th, 2010

The builders who are replacing the footpath up Restalrig Road kindly said we could have some of their pallets to build a big compost bin, so I dragged them down to the school this morning, and built this

Made from pallets

Made from pallets

with Joachim’s help. You can buy bins like this, but they cost about £30, so this was a satisfying bit of recycling and now we have somewhere to put the fallen leaves from the playground.

Also spoke to Dobbies’ Community Champion on the phone and they are going to give us £60 worth of plants which I can collect tomorrow!

So all in all, quite a productive morning!

Funky cheapskate gardening

catherine May 24th, 2009

Just to show, you don’t need fancy containers for your plants. Even old tins can look quite funky.

Cheap (free...) and cheerful

Cheap (free...) and cheerful

Cheapskate gardening

catherine May 15th, 2009

You can plant up your sweet peas (a bit late for this now), peas and beans in the old cardboard tubes from the inside of toilet rolls and kitchen towel. They like the deep root space, and, being biodegradable means that when your seedlings are big enough you can just plant the whole thing in the ground!