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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I just set them in rows.  I have a couple of types.  Old chest freezers and 
uprights.  They get some holes drilled in them and then filled with lots of 
the usual "stuff" to make compost.  You close them up over night and leave 
them open just a crack during the day and they really go to town and you 
have lovely compost in short order!  Then I take the doors off and plant in 
them.

Youngest and I use them as canvases and paint them like bricks or stones or 
paint ivy on them or flowers.  They look really cool with the various melons 
and squashes growing over the sides.

Then come winter, I have a couple that I'm going to use as cold frames.  We 
picked up some old windows from Freecycle and I'll put them on top.

DH is digging out a section for a hoop house and I'll be using freezers in 
there because they are insulted which should keep soil warm enough to grow 
cool weather veggies even in the snow.

AND, DH remembered Pat's thing about lettuce and took one of the freezer 
doors which had built in shelves and put it up on some old sawhorses he 
found down in the dump on this property.  Then he got one of those kind of 
canopy/shade thingys from Freecycle and set the lettuce "tray" under there. 
I filled the "shelves" with composted goodies and I should have lettuce all 
summer long!  Wahoo!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>


> Do you bury the freezers or just fill them with dirt?  I've never heard of 
> this....bford