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>>2698
I don't want to grow weed, I want something like a creeper vine crawling up over circuit-boards.

Any electronics made after 2004 will be free of lead, mercury and other properly toxic substances. I'm an engineer rather than a botanist, so I don't know if the paint or plasticisers on the chassis might kill your plants. It's probably fine.

>>2700
Great, thanks.

Now I need a botanist to chip in with a suggestion of a good climbing plant to put in it.

I don't know what to suggest but good luck OP, be sure to post pictures when it's finished.

>>2697
Herbs are a good shout - they're easy to grow and you can cut bits of them off and use them. I have a few old PCs lying around too, have been thinking of doing similar.

>>2703
I already have more varieties of herbs growing than I use. I'm not lacking in food plants.
At this point I'm thinking to just lay the cases on their sides and maybe stick some lavender in them or something pretty.

>>2704
Lavender grows very well in shit soil - add lots of stones and gravel to the bottom and it will love it.

>>2705

I refuse to buy stones on principle, hopefully the circuit-boards still in there will do.

>>2706
Just sieve a load of earth from the garden and get some stones for free.

>>2707
I'll have a go when I'm digging. I was going to make a jibe at you for suggesting that I might have a garden sieve but realised there's the front-cover of a fan under the lean-to that'll do nicely.

>>2708
Genuinely, a garden sieve is my favourite gardening implement. Turns any old lump of mud into beautiful fine compost.

Fuck me manual labour sucks. You'd have think they'd have invented something for that by now.

>>2709
I ended up not doing this because there were so many loose screws, sticks of RAM and cables from the two computers that I figured they'd do in place of stones. Here's a climbing plant growing out of a busted speaker.

I have sown a load of wildflowers in the bare earth/compost so it won't stay bare, I'll just need to weed it once I figure out which growths are the flowers and which aren't.

The piece of metal pipe marking off the bed is some random crap I found behind the greenhouse. Possibly an old trampoline, I have no real idea.

And here's the lavender plus a pot of those white flowers whatever they are. This bed is so big because I also have a maple tree I wanted to plant but when I started digging down I hit a pipe.

>>2712
A Maple Tree? That's quite a step up.

You might like to consider some seeds too, see what grows in among it all.

>>2713
I don't really want the Maple tree but it was here, in a pot, with all the random pieces of metal. Seems a shame to chuck it but I don't know what else to do with it.
Like I said, I spread some assorted wildflower seeds in the compost (cowslip, poppies, something, something, foxgloves).