What have you repurposed while building ?

[kwhites634]

I like the stacked compost bin with the milk crates. Put a bit of a side liner in them, and it would make a great multi level vermiposting bin.

Like your green house @kwhites634 .

Love the crochet plastic bags. I never have enough of those. Am currently out of them. B/C of my need for them, I never take fabric bags to the stores.

The greenhouse is a work in progress at this point. Still needs the plastic to close in the ends, and the growing medium in the beds, and it'll be done. DW can't help with the plastic right now; she's 10 days from getting one knee replaced. DIL's coming out to help her, so she's gonna be drafted to help with the plastic; she just don't know it yet.

 

[kwhites634]

That wall would be great till it's not. Eventually, that plastic will degrade due to UV! Then what? But, I love the idea.

That's a fact, and a good point. I never thought about that, and I don't remember the story addressing it.

 

[lazy gardener]

You're gonna need a fan in that building. Lack of a fan is what keeps my green house from being truly functional. It gets up to 110 when the sun shines on it, even when the doors at each end are wide open. That's one of my "in the future" projects. I'd actually like to make a stick built green house off the west end of my house. I've been collecting storm window and patio doors for that project. My plan is a building about 10 x 12 (or larger... what ever I can talk hubby into! Built on skids, Framing for glass windows on S and W walls, Solid walls on N and E, Polycarbon roof. Heat sink floor, Possibly an aquaponic system as well as standard soil beds.

 

[kwhites634]

I like the stacked compost bin with the milk crates. Put a bit of a side liner in them, and it would make a great multi level vermiposting bin.

Like your green house @kwhites634 .

Love the crochet plastic bags. I never have enough of those. Am currently out of them. B/C of my need for them, I never take fabric bags to the stores.

Vermiposting? Unfamiliar.

 

[lazy gardener]

Red worm composting.

 

[lazy gardener]

@kwhites634 I wish your wife the best with her knee replacement. Tell her to take her pain meds before therapy, and to PUSH, PUSH, PUSH to regain her strength and range of motion! It's painful, and hard work, but she'll be delighted with the outcome.

 

[kwhites634]

You're gonna need a fan in that building. Lack of a fan is what keeps my green house from being truly functional. It gets up to 110 when the sun shines on it, even when the doors at each end are wide open. That's one of my "in the future" projects. I'd actually like to make a stick built green house off the west end of my house. I've been collecting storm window and patio doors for that project. My plan is a building about 10 x 12 (or larger... what ever I can talk hubby into! Built on skids, Framing for glass windows on S and W walls, Solid walls on N and E, Polycarbon roof. Heat sink floor, Possibly an aquaponic system as well as standard soil beds.

Thanks for the tip; have to work that in somehow.

 

[kwhites634]

Red worm composting.

Ahhh. Good idea!

 

[kwhites634]

@kwhites634 I wish your wife the best with her knee replacement. Tell her to take her pain meds before therapy, and to PUSH, PUSH, PUSH to regain her strength and range of motion! It's painful, and hard work, but she'll be delighted with the outcome.

Thanks; I'll be sure to pass that along. She's supposed to be doing strengthening exercises pre-surgery, but I doubt she's very consistent.

 

[PouleChick]

Thanks to some pow-wowwing with some of the lovely peeps on the help area we have worked out what was going on and fixed my photos! Here is a copy to save you going back!
Great thread! We were in Ikea and they had their basic futons on sale for €9 each so we grabbed 4 of them - no way could we buy wood that cheap from any where else. We made what was going to be a tractor and then converted 1/2 way through to a non tractor coop totally using the futons (other than the frames), even the screws were used. There is storage at the top and the whole side opens for access. I will be adding hanging nest boxes off one end shortly:

Oh actually there are some boards as well for the roof!

We then got in a bit of a muddle when we had 3 broodies all at once so needed to do something quickly. We had been given a huge wooden box to use as a planter (dh thinks it may have originally been the box that tiles get delivered in) so we quickly converted that to a small coop to use fro one of the broodies - the other wood was stuff we had and the old tiles were found on our property too.

When we were waiting to build the bigger coop (still not our main one which we still need to find time to build - ill be big and walk in!) we had a time where we had the 2 new silkies and 3 pullets so we let the silkies have the small hutch we have and put the other 3 into the back of an old TV - we even found a grill off something that worked as a lockable door They happily lived in there for a few weeks until the coop was done! I still have it in the run (they use it for shelter) and one of the broodies stayed in there until her chicks were born (I did try to move her but she wasn't having it!) when I moved them to the box coop!