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Plant holder and organiser for car boot

estone178f3SBrnqestone178f3SBrnq Posts: 2
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Hi Everyone,
I am currently an A-level Product design student designing a potentially new product for plant lovers. It is a plant holder and organiser for your car boot to avoid plants and pots knocking over and spilling soil all over your car during your journey from the garden centre. I am needing to gather some research, so I was just wondering if you all have any current solutions or products that you use to keep your plants up right, it doesn't matter if its a simple solution e.g stacking your bags against the pot. The more replies the better!
Also would you consider buying a product to keep them upright during the car journey?
Do you have any thoughts on what the product could look like for example a similar set up to a desk organiser?
Would it be useful if this plant holder could convert into a trolley to transport all your plants and goods from the car to your garden at once, to save several trips from the car to the garden?
Thank you! Any replies or thoughts on the project would be greatly appreciated.
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  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    My current selection for smaller plants.



    All the GC's I visit will give you something, wether that be a box or one of the above.

    If I'm buying bigger plants then I tend to use 3 or 4 cheap buckets.
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    We've got one of those 'dog bags' in the boot to stop our dog muddying the car after a walk, it's great to store garden stuff on the bag and wouldn't matter if a mess happened.

    A portable lift would be great to lift heavy bags of compost from the garden centre's trolley and into the boot, then effortlessly out of the boot and into the shed. But then I think that maybe far-fetched.

    What gardeners really really want is a great replacement for peat which will soon be banned. 
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited May 2023
    You do see colourful trolleys, that can be purchased, put together to move plants in at the flower shows. In a car it is the height of plants that can be an issue.
    Moving plants when you move house is another issue. Not sure what removal companies do.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    I move the front passenger seat forward to place small or medium sized plants in the well of the seat behind. For larger plants which probably need to be laid down, I lower the back seats to extend the boot area to accommodate them.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • estone178f3SBrnqestone178f3SBrnq Posts: 2
    Thank you all for your replies so far! These will all be very beneficial in my research, so thank you again.
  • Winston_The_Gravity_ManWinston_The_Gravity_Man Posts: 263
    The square grey flimsy plastic plantpots that were once beloved of plant nurseries, brand name PackaPot, were (are) very useful because they fit exactly 12 in a large seed tray, 6 in a half-sized seed tray, and they are very stable because they support each other.
    When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
  • Winston_The_Gravity_ManWinston_The_Gravity_Man Posts: 263
    If I might venture a suggestion, @estone178f3SBrnq the problem most often encountered isn't so much in transporting plants in a car boot, it's transporting tall, top heavy plants inside a car.  They invariably end up propped up behind the front seats where they only have support in one axis (front to back) but seem to fall over sideways when driving around any sort of bend !  Soil everywhere ! Sort that out and you'll definitely have a winner 😁
    When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    Winston_The_Gravity_Man said:
    If I might venture a suggestion, @estone178f3SBrnq the problem most often encountered isn't so much in transporting plants in a car boot, it's transporting tall, top heavy plants inside a car.  They invariably end up propped up behind the front seats where they only have support in one axis (front to back) but seem to fall over sideways when driving around any sort of bend !  Soil everywhere ! Sort that out and you'll definitely have a winner 😁
    Bit like a drawer string bag, place pot inside and tie the string, it wouldn't matter then if the pot does roll around the car. Bag can even be a metre or more high so that all the plant can be popped in and be protected to a degree. Maybe the bags could have tabs on, like a coats have for hanging on a hook, then the plant could be suspended on those hooks in the car that hold jackets. 

    I wouldn't mind bags like this with the name of the garden centre on if they came free. 

    How about garden centres actually growing plants in the non-woven plant bags with draw strings? 
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
  • Winston_The_Gravity_ManWinston_The_Gravity_Man Posts: 263
    Great idea, @Jenny_Aster 😀.  Now that you mention it I used to do thst but with a carrier bag ... not posh enough to have drawstring bags 😆

    So, now that the soil problem is solved, I wonder how to stop the tall plants falling over when they're in the back ?

    When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
  • Jenny_AsterJenny_Aster Posts: 945
    Maybe an equivalent of a reinforced 'body bag' for trees so they don't snap. Failing that, perhaps get the garden centre to deliver  B)
    Trying to be the person my dog thinks I am! 

    Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
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