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Anyone else doing this?

16.10.08

We'll need to find out if there are any other folks/groups doing the same or similar things to this - don't want to tread on anyone's toes. Plus, the more the merrier and if there are some existing urban gardeners locally, they may be able to give us a bit of a head-start.

If the soil's no good, let's plant in ...

18.10.08

It might be good to plant in containers - these can be moved if necessary, they'd get over the possible problem of contaminated soil and would also mean we can 'plant' in concreted places. Oh, and they could be transported for Show & Tell type things in schools maybe?!

If and when the owners of the land wanted to do something else with it, the veg could be transported somewhere else more easily than if it were planted in the ground.

The sort of things we could plant in:

• Dustbins (with holes in the bottom for drainage.) Would recycling companies like to give us some bins for free?!
• The Council's recycling boxes?! (Again, with drainage holes)
• There are products made specifically for container planting (point 8 on Research page - Websites section) but these cost lots.
• Old toilets, baths, sinks etc.
• Tyres.
• Grow-bag type things