Cat... bag.. what?
When DH and I moved to the acreage, we were informed there were many (many) barn cats that were trapped and moved from the property. Ultimately, the home the owners of our acreage moved to was within a 3 mile radius and all of the cats (except one), returned back to our property. This is fine, I love animals and I took on feeding them. For 15 years the local cats have been fed Main Stay (certainly not the best, but it's ideally subsidised with bugs, grass, mice, maybe a carcass of some sort), and this brand of cat food is distributed in woven plastic bags or as I incorrectly call them: plastic burlap.
I try to recycle/repurpose as much as I can. Plant scraps go to the garden (next year to the chickens), meat scraps go to my indoor cats/dog/barn cats, plastic bags re-used, try to buy glass bottles only etc. The recycling programs aren't great where I'm near and they will take this but not that and only if its purple on Wednesday
. I've heard and read about people repurposing bags like this into portable planters for tomatoes and potatoes because of their depth when they are filld with dirt and stood upright. One of my books mentions the burlap (plastic and fibre) weaving allows enough airflow that the plants don't end up root bound because they sense air and divert growth upward and out. Does anyone have any experience with this? Ever tried it?
I'm also considering trying to find wooden boxes (like pallets, but boxes, sometimes sold with oranges in them), lining them with gardener's cloth and doing the same for radishes, maybe carrots and so on. It would be wonderfully convenient to bring in the boxes full of carrots and tuck them into a dark, cool place to keep them fresh and crispy without needing to throw them into wet sand.
I look forward to hearing about this or similar ideas, maybe even seeing pictures of execution!
Talk soon! I'll try to reply to everyone.
When DH and I moved to the acreage, we were informed there were many (many) barn cats that were trapped and moved from the property. Ultimately, the home the owners of our acreage moved to was within a 3 mile radius and all of the cats (except one), returned back to our property. This is fine, I love animals and I took on feeding them. For 15 years the local cats have been fed Main Stay (certainly not the best, but it's ideally subsidised with bugs, grass, mice, maybe a carcass of some sort), and this brand of cat food is distributed in woven plastic bags or as I incorrectly call them: plastic burlap.
I try to recycle/repurpose as much as I can. Plant scraps go to the garden (next year to the chickens), meat scraps go to my indoor cats/dog/barn cats, plastic bags re-used, try to buy glass bottles only etc. The recycling programs aren't great where I'm near and they will take this but not that and only if its purple on Wednesday
. I've heard and read about people repurposing bags like this into portable planters for tomatoes and potatoes because of their depth when they are filld with dirt and stood upright. One of my books mentions the burlap (plastic and fibre) weaving allows enough airflow that the plants don't end up root bound because they sense air and divert growth upward and out. Does anyone have any experience with this? Ever tried it?I'm also considering trying to find wooden boxes (like pallets, but boxes, sometimes sold with oranges in them), lining them with gardener's cloth and doing the same for radishes, maybe carrots and so on. It would be wonderfully convenient to bring in the boxes full of carrots and tuck them into a dark, cool place to keep them fresh and crispy without needing to throw them into wet sand.
I look forward to hearing about this or similar ideas, maybe even seeing pictures of execution!
Talk soon! I'll try to reply to everyone.
