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I have just moved everything into my new potting shed; and I discover I have, literally, hundreds of plastic pots. I prefer using terracotta. These are nearly all pots bought with something in which has been transplanted.
The nursery won't take them back. Any ideas? I'm not even sure I can put them in the recycling...
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Mine mount up, too. I use some as scoops for putting soil into tubs and containers. Small ones can be used as containers for bird food around the garden. Larger ones I carry round the garden with me when I'm weeding to put the weeds in temporarily, and some I use for cuttings.
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hi i am afraid they are one of the things that cannot recycle, you may try ringing
local schools, our allotment tennants take all ours to the local school, they use them a lot.
best regards mac
I have used some of mine to make bumblebee nest pots. I made a thread on how to make them if you are interested in the idea. It's in the wildlife in the garden section. One's left over, my council recycle tea took
Hi All
Our local Nottcuts garden centre has a large wooden skip type bin ( in the car park )
where you can put your unwanted
flower pots & seed trays, also if you need any you just help yourself out of the bin,
maybe you have one local to you,
it's one of those things you don't notice unless you know it's there,
regards Val
now thats what i call re-cycling,nice one sugar. best regards mac
All the above ideas, plus I grow extra plants for bedding, and also root cuttings when I prune shrubs. I then use the old plastic pots to grow them on and give them to friends or to plant stalls at local fund raising events. Small ones can be used as moulds for lard/seed cakes.
Make a bug-house(sounds childish? Nah!) - Drill or crack holes on its side and stuff it with leaves and soil and bits and bobs!
Or make a birdfeeder - cut off the top so that you have a shallow tray, tie some strings on its side and hung it up with birdfood on the tray - my robins loved that!
'Dip a dee dah, dip a dee ay, we're not seeing any birds to-day...'
Brilliant ideas. I think I may try all of them (I have hundreds, literally hundreds)
I tend to put my old plant pots onto freecycle / freegle - they go 'like snow of a dyke' - in fact I often have folk in a queue waiting for the person before not to show, so they can have them. I often have so many that I split them up into 3foot piles of diff sized pots!! I love to think thay they are getting new plants growing in them. Hope this another idea to add to the already mentioned great ideas!!
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Unknown said: I have just moved everything into my new potting shed; and I discover I have, literally, hundreds of plastic pots. I prefer using terracotta. These are nearly all pots bought with something in which has been transplanted. The nursery won't take them back. Any ideas? I'm not even sure I can put them in the recycling...
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