Kitchen Garden Forum

I used our defunct motorcycle helmets at the weekend as hanging baskets... They did look a bit macabre when we hung them up but the plants are growing well!

I was wondering what was the strangest plant container you've ever used??

Well thats a first Franksmum, were they full-face lids.
I don't think i have ever planted up an unusual planter before.

ive got an early potatoe in a toilet, had carrots in there last year. funny thing was the kids refused to eat them

Thanks OH! Yes they were - we drilled 4 holes for hooks/chain to suspend them. The visor on mine pinged off so couldn't get as much soil in but there's ivy and bacopa growing where my face used to be. Not doing it with my new helmet though!!

The next thing I was looking at was an old bookcase that I thought could lay on it's back, fill the channels with compost and put my peppers and chilli's in it in the greenhouse.

I once used a chip basket lined, filled it with summer bedding plants and hung it on a tree in the back garden.
At the moment I am using a metal three legged oven, it was used in Ireland many years ago to bake soda bread, I think it was called a bastile I maybe wrong.

Bren

our local school made a walkway of shoes filled with flowers-it was lovely!
ive only used an old wheelbarrow

Dear Jopsy, and very nice it looked as well, i bet.
Saved using it for barrowing stuff around anyway.

we live at an Outdoor education centre I use old canoeing helmets and walking boots as planters, hope one day to get an old rowing boat and make a figure out of chicken wire and plant with sedums ! OK I know I have lost the plot !

An old coal scuttle, a steel milk pail and the obligatory butler sink for alpines. I like the walk of shoes idea that is great. Will tell my wife who works in a primary school. Am currently using an old wheelbarrow to make a 'welcome' feature for the allotment gates.

Compo

Butler sink and old tin bucket for flowers, bathtub for carrots, old tire with metal rim, split open and unfurled for lettuces.

For some years I grew early Potatoes in two halves of a Tractor Tyre and it was amazing just how many I produced.
JB.

Dear Johnboy, it must have been a Goodyear.

I'm so sorry about that.

I use an old tin bath for some herbs and I also have Snog in a Fog in there too (only cos I forgot i'd planted it there!)

My Dad grew some spuds in an old lorry tyre that had been stretched to the size of a water butt. My Uncle used to work for Dunlops so got loads of the things. Every back yard in the area had them.

Do you know OH I think for once in your life you are right!
JB.