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Where would we be without plant pots? We use them to grow young plants and to bring on delicious salads, vegetables and fruits. But what do you do with your pots once your plants have outgrown them?
Reusing plastic plant pots in the garden is not only environmentally friendly, it can save you money, make some gardening tasks easier, and even help to make your garden more beautiful.
In this short video we demonstrate six ingenious and easy-to-follow ways to breathe new life into your old pots.
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For me the most obvious one is keeping old pots to grow, offshoots and cuttings. They can grow in small pots until they are big enough to go in the garden or bigger containers. That also makes it easy to give them away to friends.
Also, I once accidently forgot a small pot with Mint on a bigger pot of Blackberries. The roots of the smaller pot dug into the soil of the bigger pot, preventing myself from watering the small pot more often. And it saves some space, especially in container-gardening/urban gardening.
Another thing I used it for, is to cover the bottom with parchment paper, and fill the pot with a Lard-Seed-mealworm mixture (it should have cooled to a paste-like consistency after warming up the lard), and then be attached with wires or yarn to a tree. So you get yourself an inexpensive Bird-feeder.
Another option here on Youtube I have seen to use old clay pots, is to fill one with straw, and burrow it upside down in the ground (add a drainage layer bevore in the hole). Then secure the pot firmly with heavy dirt(clay based) and Form a little hill around the Hole of the pot, so no sunn comes in. Now this can be a nest for wild burrowing species of bumblebees.
I do this for a lot of plants and it works great!
Or you can avoid plastic pots all together by planting your seeds in SOIL BLOCKs. Just look it up. This way no pots needed at all that eventually fill up our landfills. And the environmental costs are zero.
Good idea.. Thank you..
You can set a pot with drainage holes next to tomatoes fill with water and your tomato leaves won’t get wet at all.
Also use a large pot for a mini compost collector. Cover it with a paper bag. When you dump your mini compost collector in the big pile the paper bag can go with the other organic matter.
They make excellent rat baffles, too: slip one upside-down onto the pole of a bird feeder and wire into place, wily rodent climbs the pole into the upturned pot but can go no further.
I put some pebbles in the pot to hold my solar post lights and put them on my patio and tables. They give a nice ambiance in the summer evening without drawing bugs.
I used a pot with fairly flat sides as a tree guard from rabbits.
great ideas!!!!!!
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I use your tomato halos but to stop slaters/woodlice/pillbugs from ring-barking my tomato plants
This geezer looks like Steve merchant
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Woodglut has very good designs and plans.
When I ran out of plant markers I cut up a plastic seedling pot and managed to write the plant name and date on there with a permanent marker. Next time I'll try an erasable pen and see how it holds up
Brilliant! Happily binging your videos. Many thanks.
does the light entering the side of the white yoghurt pots affect root growth differently to the 'only light from above' black plastic pots/ clay pots? i am assuming that roots naturally grow down and away from light, but with a white plastic pot, some light is going to be seeping in through the sides.
Again, things I didn't even think of!
Also learned it's okay to break up the root clusters. I was always worried the roots would get mad and die off somehow.. -_-
If you have broken pieces of clay pots, you can scatter the sharper bits around your plants to help keep slugs and snails at bay. 🙂
The pot reservoir is genius. And I love the big hotel. Just subscribed!
I have picked up multiple plastic straws from trash picking…hate seeing those straws go down the sewers. I have been keeping those plastic straws in a empty paint bucket but wondering if I could just do the bamboo in a pot with straws in a pot instead and also could I just keep using the paint can…all the paint is long gone….
One of the best gardening vids around!
Love the insect hotel idea! I love insect hotels, but the store bought ones here tend to either very poor quality or cost a pretty penny.
What is that cute wood house on the fence at the beginning of this video? It looks like you have something stored in it :). I'm thinking that would be a great way to store something I use while in the garden? As usual, tks for a great video :):):)
I keep the large sheets of plastic wrap that came with furniture we ordered. I collect large plastic water bottles on recycling day to use in my garden to protect seedlings. I cut up some hula hoops I found in the trash to use as supports for a mesh tunnel to protect my strawberries. Large cardboard boxes were cut up to use as a weed suppressant (then I cover with mulch or stones) between my raised beds.
Small terra-cotta pots, painted or unpainted with a rope threaded through upturned can become wind chimes
I watch your site as much as possible. Your suggestions are great ones, indeed! Thank you.