Welcome back my friends to our final episode this week with Gerald Stratford. I've had

a lot of fun chatting with you Gerald and I know we've gone over your story and giant

vegetables, radishes, carrots, but I've noticed on your Instagram and on your Twitter there

are a lot of repurposed materials in your garden and I was curious you know what your your

philosophy is there. I think every single person on this planet has got to try and do something

to stop waste because there's so many of us on this little planet of us we call earth and we've

got to try and do things with stuff rather than just put it in the bin which goes to landfill

that is not the answer and I try and make anything everything if Elizabeth says there's some

stuff for the bin I'll have a look in it in case I might be able to do something with it and a while

ago we nearly all the milk in the UK is sold in four point containers six point containers plastic

containers with a handle and I thought I've got to make something with this and I played around one

rainy day in my cave and come up with a container which I can hang on the fence and grow stuff in

and I've got an area just outside the back door I call it my salad bar and we grow all our salads

and herbs for the kitchen in three big rows of milk cartons staple to the fence and at the top

I have a piece of old gutter in where I grow all my peas for pea shoots which are delicious

yeah and it really works you know yes you because it's so small you know you you have to keep it

watered but that's the lesser of two evils just to spend a few minutes watering everything yeah

because it's giving you you know we have a sandwich at lunchtime and there's always a little bit

of salad at the side which Lizzie's pick from the salad bar yeah I see on your

Instagram that it seems like it's very close to the home as well so it's a smart way to set it

up where it's just right there yes it's right by Elizabeth we lost Gerald for the very tail end of

this episode my friends but if you want to check out where you can find his work he's on Instagram

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