I've got waaaay more than 39.....like Nut the counting is beyond me. They take up far too much space, but that's partly because there are dozens of different designs of each size pot - why? and there's halfpots and three quarter pots and long Toms and round ones and square ones and metric and Imperial ones and they simply won't all stack neatly.
More scarily, I've actually bought very few of them, the vast majority came with a plant in them
At least when you buy clothes, you can say you don't want the hanger. If you want the plant, you have to take the pot
. I wonder if it would be practial commercially to grow young plants or annuals in eggbox type material. Obviously this wouldn't work for plant bought at a more mature stage.
I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of man to make the pots from a plastic which is easily recyclable. They seem to be made of a type that no council will accept for recycling.
When I was running my own gardening business I had thousands of them at one time and offered them to anyone who wanted them. Schools would only take them if I agreed to sterilise them first!!!
I ended up selling them to a hobby/ nurseryman who was less paranoid about such things.
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I've got waaaay more than 39.....like Nut the counting is beyond me. They take up far too much space, but that's partly because there are dozens of different designs of each size pot - why? and there's halfpots and three quarter pots and long Toms and round ones and square ones and metric and Imperial ones and they simply won't all stack neatly.
More scarily, I've actually bought very few of them, the vast majority came with a plant in them
At least when you buy clothes, you can say you don't want the hanger. If you want the plant, you have to take the pot
. I wonder if it would be practial commercially to grow young plants or annuals in eggbox type material. Obviously this wouldn't work for plant bought at a more mature stage.
I'm sure it's not beyond the wit of man to make the pots from a plastic which is easily recyclable. They seem to be made of a type that no council will accept for recycling.
When I was running my own gardening business I had thousands of them at one time and offered them to anyone who wanted them. Schools would only take them if I agreed to sterilise them first!!!
I ended up selling them to a hobby/ nurseryman who was less paranoid about such things.
Perhaps it needs the wit of a woman
ok, why hasn't a woman come up with it yet?
She's probably got other things on her mind . So many solutions - so little time
I wash the outside of the pots when I take them to sell.
And before anyone says anything about hiding my earnings in tax havens, any profit I make goes to charity..
I certainly don't Logan. Nor do I sterilise my secateurs or pruning knife with a lighter.
That way I can use all the junk mail left over after putting it on the compost heap.