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Tonight I rotavated in the contents of two compost bins, one of the large bins was given to me by a neighbour who could not be bothered to use it so he spends twenty quid a year on a council green bin.

Sometimes people from the village take their clippings etc to the tip but I stop em if I see em and put it in the compost. The rotavator was also a freebie. I will be planting beans and other stuff from free seed on the bed that I rotavated, not quite a freebies cos I had to pay for the fuel.

But there is nothing like free stuff to make you smile smugly, what's your best Freebie?

CoMpO

Morning Compo, for money's worth, it's got to be my Robinsons greenhouse that i got for nothing, but for a treasured item, it's got to be a very old flat tyned fork. I was given it by a gardener and it was his Grandads.

OH. My late father always used his flat tyned fork for lifting potato's, wouldn't use anything else.

Dear Shallot Man, old gardening tools are full of happy memories, especially if handed down from family.

We've got a freebie I don't quite know what to do with. A year ago our local council, in error, delivered us a wheelie bin when we are actually a Black Sack area. It's still stuck in a corner of the front garden. We already have two compost cages and 4 water butts so if anybody can suggest how I can make profitable use it where it in its current location (no room for it anywhere else) I'd be grateful. My other best freebie has to be two years ago when somebody kindly gave me all their spare tomato seedlings after my new mini plastic greenhouse got blown over by a gust of wind and all my growing in pots and trays were wrecked.
And the other nice freebie - rare these days - is finding a few dollops of horse manure in a country lane and being able to harvest them.

Best ever wasn't quite free.
A Howard 350 for £50 and all it needed was the fuel line ungumming and fresh fuel putting in, then fully functional.
Nor really is the regular one.
Regular freebie, mowing all the paths on the site, thus filling all my compost bins weekly.

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Primrose, how about making it into waterbutt? Some kind of storage space? Old pots ? Compost Bags?

CoMpO

Hi Primrose
My spare wheeli bins are green so no problems with blending in with garden suroundings. Useful for storing garden tools spades forks etc or fleeces and enviromesh etc. Dont tell any one but I have sawn one in half and use it as a large plant container leave the weels on for easy moving and re attach the handles for easy moving
regards brenjon

Primrose wrote:.....a wheelie bin when we are actually a Black Sack area. It's still stuck in a corner of the front garden. We already have two compost cages and 4 water butts so if anybody can suggest how I can make profitable use it where it in its current location (no room for it anywhere else) I'd be grateful....

At least two plotholders on my site who walk to site use their brown (composting waste) wheelie bin as a wheelbarrow for pernicious weeds.

Otherwise, drill some holes in the base, fill it with sandy loam and go for it with the exhibition carrots and parsnips.

A friend demolished a car port so I gained several pieces of corrugated plastic that make great cloches.