Last year we bought some 1 Litre pots from our local nursery for a few
pence each. This year we were told they hadn't got any. Where do URGlers
buy cheap pots from, most of ours are only used for a year before we pot
things on, so they don't have to be stunningly robust.

Jon
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Jon Rouse

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:54:49 +0000, Jon Rouse
wrote:

Last year we bought some 1 Litre pots from our local nursery for a few
pence each. This year we were told they hadn't got any. Where do URGlers
buy cheap pots from, most of ours are only used for a year before we pot
things on, so they don't have to be stunningly robust.

Jon


I get mine from the local refuse tip.... this time of year you can
often pick up a sackload ( quite literally ) for a couple of quid.
They need washing and disinfecting, mind you.

Regards,



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Jon Rouse wrote in message ...
Last year we bought some 1 Litre pots from our local nursery for a few
pence each. This year we were told they hadn't got any. Where do URGlers
buy cheap pots from, most of ours are only used for a year before we pot
things on, so they don't have to be stunningly robust.

I just cut down plastic soft drinks bottles & drill a few holes in the bottoms.

Chris

Last year we bought some 1 Litre pots from our local nursery for a few
pence each. This year we were told they hadn't got any. Where do URGlers
buy cheap pots from, most of ours are only used for a year before we pot
things on, so they don't have to be stunningly robust.

Jon
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Jon Rouse

The contractors that plant up the council properties and traffic roundabout
around here will often give them away as the don't reuse them.


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Jon Rouse wrote in message ...
Last year we bought some 1 Litre pots from our local nursery for a few
pence each. This year we were told they hadn't got any. Where do URGlers
buy cheap pots from, most of ours are only used for a year before we pot
things on, so they don't have to be stunningly robust.

I just cut down plastic soft drinks bottles & drill a few holes in the bottoms.

I might add that if you slice off the bottoms, they make great
bell-cloches, and the bottom bit (if flat) acts as a saucer for the
next size "pot" down. Leave the cap on the "cloches", as otherwise
slugs do a great up-and-over, followed by a trapeze act to gulp down
your plants from the top down.

Chris

'Twas Wed, 11 Dec 2002 04:04:57 -0000, when "Carol Russell"
enriched all our lives with
these worthy thoughts:

The contractors that plant up the council properties and traffic roundabout
around here will often give them away as the don't reuse them.

I was about to mention that! Many landscaping contractors have
bloody huge piles of the damned things and are more than happy to get
rid of some in exchange for a few beer vouchers. Look in your Yellow
Pages.
For the more popular commercially planted items (cornus,
euonymus, phormiums, etc) most contractors try to buy-in with those
flimsy plastic bag pots or in bio-degradable wrappers that help to
reduce the amount of 'packaging' they are left with after a large
contract, but the vast majority of plants are still supplied in rigid
plastic pots.

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