"A metal one would make a great yard art turtle...just add legs and a head...or a ladybug, just paint it red with black dots and add a couple of antennae...or a birdbath, just mount it on a post...or donate it to kids who make robotic toys...it…"

"Or...paint the 'removed guts' and use it in creating some unusual 'yard art'.  Or...if it still works, plug it into one of those outside 'motion detectors' so that it 'screeches' at anyone intruding into…"

"ok with the crazy weather we have had I have a question.  has any one heard of brussell sprouts re rooting them selves.  i left  mine in from last year & i noticed that the stalk has new roots on it."

"I don't.  I had to google to see what kind of peppers these are.  *blush*  I know why they call them Peter Peppers now. "

"Does any one happen to have any Peter Pepper Seeds?  "

"Love it.  Those hardy types definitely have larger blooms than the tropical type we grow here.  Love all your pics.  Hope to see your posting/adding pics again soon.  Happy gardening."

"I would throw the "guts" out and use the container for a small water garden or bog plants."

"Harry I like the way you think. With all the talk about shop vacs I dragged an other one home only mine is metal not plastic. So you know that one has been around for awhile."

"I see a clunky piece of plastic headed for the junk pile/rubbish bin...might also make a good target for .22 practice; or a 'cage' for catching mice/rats (leave the hose hole open for this purpose); or it could be the head of a (really…"

"We have the very same hibiscus plant.  "

"I've never grown Oriental Lillies, but I grow a ton of others. My Asiatics do spread like wildfire, but I don't mind. My gardens are a bit haphazardly put together, anyway. The more plants, the merrier! :-)"

"I see a nice piece of drift wood as a focal point, with some grasses and succulants. (does that sound masculine?) I think it would make a great planter. And if in a warm zone a cactus or three would be nice.  "