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How Many Have You Got?
Marygold
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This morning, while I was in the doctors' waiting room, I started reading a 2012 copy of Which Gardening magazine. The first article was about recycling (or not) plastic pots.
A caption caught my attention: "The average gardener has 39 plastic pots". This was pots they would probably never use.
I have 'slightly' more than 39.
How many have you got? Do you recycle them?
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But most get used for seeds and potting on.
I use smaller ones for potting on but never all of them. I also have lots of bigger ones that you get perennials or small shrubs in. Also some of the tall thin ones that climbers come in.
I probably have nearer 200. We recycle the middle sized ones - I use the small ones for potting on seeds & some of the larger ones for shrubs etc. I don't give away any of the good, old fashioned terracotta pots - they are like gold dust here now - I used to have 100's of terracotta pots but they inevitably crack or get knocked over. I also have some concrete pots which we have painted in bright colours.
Lots , gave half away last year .use most of them now.
I have no idea, I can't manage the sort of mathematics required to work it out
In the sticks near Peterborough
Er, lets see, the remainder of 7.000 of the square 3in type. About 2,000 of the small round 2 in ones, and about 3,000 plus of ones which look very much like those root trainer things, 4 inches tall and 1 inch sqaure. Plus a few hundred 1 litre pots for bigger plants.
So a few more than the average.
Many of them filled with plants though.
I could have written that
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Berghill I think you've won the prize. Post your address so we can add to your collection