Hilary asked about my use of cardboard boxes for planting.
My top soil is only about one to one and a half spits deep, so any plant that likes richer conditions I have to give a decent start in life.
I simply dig (or rather my husband digs) a deep square hole.
I mix a load of donkey manure into the yellow subsoil, then place the cardboard box on top of that.
I simply then plant the rose, clematis, or whatever it is, in the box, using the topsoil that has been dug out.
I only put the donkey manure below the cardboard box, because although the donkey manure is supposed to be well rotted, it seems a bit too fresh for my liking.
By the time the cardboard box has rotted in the ground, the donkey manure should be as well.
As to the cardboard box, well it is whatever the local Lidl has available when the plants arrive. I just take off any sticky tape.
I don't do this for everything. Only those plants that are greedy guts.
It seems to work well.
Daisy