The egg box planters have been put to good use for my seedlings again this year. Water is retaind well if the lid rests under the egg holder part and filled with homemade compost and a little sand. Seeds are then spread and covered with glass from an old window rescued from a skip (with permission). Within days they were showing through and looking healthy. I lost a few to my shed dwelling mouse but the rest are nearly ready to go out in the new raised beds.
The raised beds are another one of my salvage stories. I went to purchase wood for a few shelves for the house when I spotted, at the back of the timber yard, a number of rough-cut planks. Paying for the wood, the planks became the topic of conversation and before I could say “over there”, the owner of the yard had sold me, for a few pounds, nearly one hundred planks of oak, destined to be burnt. At the end of the weekend, I had made seven raised beds and then looked to fill them. Once organic soil was sourced, the beds were filled and manure added. Now I shall wait and see what happens in the next growing season. I may even try the half gutter-planting scheme where soil is placed almost to the top and seeds scattered on top. When the seeds are up and ready to be planted out simply just take the whole gutter planter out of the greenhouse and just slid out onto the waiting bed that has had a good water before hand. Happy gardening.
