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