I gathered all the unused plant pots around the house, in the garage, in the tool shed, tossed about the yard by the storms. What I found was great!
Pardon the white-trashiness of my potting area.
I have lots o' pots available in various sizes:
- Wine barrel x4 (not shown here)
- 16" x 4, 2 shallow
- 12" x 6, 1 with no bottom (I'll use it to lift a tomato or cucumbers in a shallow bed)
- 10" x 6, 1 strawberry pot
- 8" x 8
- 4-6" (seedling size) x 32
- bonzai x 3
- windowboxes x 2 (each equivalent to a 14-inch pot, good for lettuce or herbs)
I'll definitely have enough little pots to get me started with all the indoor seedlings. All of these pots have been previously used, so they probably need some sterilizing in 10% bleach before anything else happens... I know some of the plants from these pots died mysterious, possibly diseased deaths. The pots are not pretty, but they're free. Maybe I can paint them and call it "upcycling," that's cool these days, right?
The old soil will also be recycled: pour a kettle of boiling water over the old soil to sterilize, then mix with an equal amount of new potting soil. Add just a bit of organic fertilizer, and that should do the trick.
Let the games begin!
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