Help MBE grow his dinner 2012

adelight

aliasojo mine are in one and they're doing fine in the west mids

The dalek in my nan's garden (the one i'm planting in) is awful at keeping rats out! i found a dead one in there recently, squeezed in through where the trap door had buckled a bit :rotfl:

mbe i love the idea of planting things in the buckets, where do you get the soil?
doesn't look like i'll be able to get an allotment or much of a garden (that i can actually did) at my new house so enjoying these alternative planting ideas.


I forgot to mention earlier that my sister ripped up loads of raddish seedlings when we were weeding! She tried to put them back in but they'll probably die.

mrbadexample

adelight wrote: »

mbe i love the idea of planting things in the buckets, where do you get the soil?

Have you not been paying attention? :shocked:

I'm digging a pond, and sieving what I dig out.

adelight

mrbadexample wrote: »

Have you not been paying attention? :shocked:

I'm digging a pond, and sieving what I dig out.

you got ALL that soil from the pond though? :eek: forgive me but the pond looks well dinky

mrbadexample

adelight wrote: »

you got ALL that soil from the pond though? :eek: forgive me but the pond looks well dinky

Yup. The soil's very compact, so when you dig it out it seems to expand. I've taken a very good bootload to the tip too - that's just the good stuff!

mrbadexample

I have used bought multi-purpose compost before, but that's a flippin' expensive way of doing things. I used a 50-50 mix last year. This year I'm spending nowt.

djohn2002uk

mrbadexample wrote: »

I've never had one, but my uncle Bob reckon's they're useless too. He's got two daleks and throws his waste directly onto the vegetable plot. :rotfl:

Another plus for Daleks here. We have 2 and we get one full Daleks worth of compost each year and if it's warm we get even more. Tell Uncle Bob he ain't keeping his worms happy.

pink_poppy

Should daleks/compost heaps be sited where it gets sunny then??

I don't know what to do about getting one as I really don't fancy rats sniffing around!! :eek:

Little_Vics

confused now. I currently have an old bin full (with worms and holes drilled in it). Should I just leave it for a year or so and let magic happen?

Lotus-eater

adelight wrote: »

The dalek in my nan's garden (the one i'm planting in) is awful at keeping rats out! i found a dead one in there recently, squeezed in through where the trap door had buckled a bit :rotfl:

Well you have to work at it. Heavy duty weld mesh under the bottom and up over the door, then bricks round it, over the mesh.

Works 100%

Lotus-eater

Little_Vics wrote: »

confused now. I currently have an old bin full (with worms and holes drilled in it). Should I just leave it for a year or so and let magic happen?

Yes..... what else were you planning to do with it?