The Clever Reason Smart Gardeners Hoard Plastic Pots

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• CY

  @cynthiaarmstrong7972 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I’ve never needed a spare pot until the day after I’ve thrown out the hundreds of pots I’d been hoarding for decades

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• RE

  @Reh233 · 6 months ago

  Glad im not the only one who keeps a pot of potted pots.

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• SA

  @SannidhiTN · 1 year ago

  Garden crazy people will also  hoard used milk cans, yogurt containers, buckets, paint bins etc

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• JE

  @jennikomarovsky6826 · 1 year ago

  Mint will laugh at the idea of being contained by a pot and grow merrily through the holes at the bottom! I know this from experience... :)

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• SA

  @samueljaramillo4221 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I have a hundred  different sizes. Neatly arranged. I never throw any of them away till they crack or break. I don’t wash mine until I’m going to use them. I use old mini blinds as plant labels. I take them apart and cut them down.

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• SU

  @susanfox-mx3nv · 5 months ago

  Bless you for being kind to the environment and entertaining at the same time.  Cheers

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• KA

  @kathrynhartleroad7132 · 1 year ago

  I get free pots at yard sales. Sometimes I spray paint them to make them look new. I also keep any food container that would work for seedlings. And I tried milk jug/juice jug mini-greenhouses for seed starting and it was well worth it!

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• MN

  @mn4169 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Guilty ... pot hoarder deluxe here. My husband thinks I am mad. Lord you must have read my mind. just downloaded your free book. Thanks

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• GA

  @Garykoi625 · 2 years ago

  Old pot, old buckets, and even old baths 😅 If you  can put soil in, i will use it.  Nice video, Ben 👏🐟

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• DA

  @davemasontherapy · 2 years ago (edited)

  You can also use old pots to sift your compost. Choose a pot with appropriate drainage holes. Half fill it with compost. Then shake it up and down. It holds back the bigger pieces and lets through the finer stuff. Ideal for creating a layer of fine material for seed sowing on top of a pot partly filled with unsifted compost.

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• LI

  @lindaed3594 · 1 year ago

  Even when the plant is too large to put bottomless pot over top, just cut the pot side, open up & place around the plant ‘trunk’, push into soil to anchor et voilà!😊

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• DR

  @drshirleyrollinson · 1 year ago

  the best thing for plastic labels is to get an old venetian blind with plastic slats, and break the slats into convenient lengths. People are always throwing old blinds out, so if you don't have one, just look around the neighborhood dumpsters.

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