The basic would be a water butt.

Grow potatoes or carrots in it

Storage for plant pots

Storage for compost

1. Drill holes in the bottom for drainage and use for growing potatoes.
2. Sink into the ground as a small wildlife pond.
3. Donate to your local allotment.
4. Post it on Freecycle

if you bore holes in the bottom for drainage, you can grow salad potatoes.. just plant and when the shoots are 5 inches long, put in more earth and shore up..and so on!

If it’s watertight, use it as a rain barrel.

When it breaks a bit more and is no longer remotely watertight, put some extra holes in it and use it to make leaf mould.

Just add fallen leaves in autumn, stir them up maybe every 6 months (tip them out, mix them up and throw them back in), and in 2 years you’ll have really nice crumbly goodness, especially useful for heavy clay soils and for growing onions.

Oak and pine leaves take longer to break down, and really enthusiastic gardeners add urine occasionally to help it break down better/faster…

I use mine as a feed bin for chicken food. It needs to be watertight and have a lid that doesn’t blow off easily.

I live in the country and we don’t have curbside recycling so I have to carry my recyclables to the center myself. I’d clean it and use it for a recycle bin. Some of these black containers are recyclable, did you check the bottom for the number?

What if you don’t have the lid anymore?

I am looking for about 10 plastic bins with lids for horse feed.If anyone has any spare in the west yorkshire i will find them usefull!
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