Container Gardening/Frugal Coup!
Dawn
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>Sewmaster is going to hate me for this one....Sorry, Sew. :)
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>DH and I went to town today to do some errands and I noticed
>a LARGE number of giant plant pots - the black, unpretty
>kind that plant nurseries use - sitting next to the hotel's
>garbage dumpster. Well, of course I wanted them...
Must have been that psychic shopping kicking in.
Dawn, who loves it when things come together frugally.
Sewmaster
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> Sewmaster is going to hate me for this one....Sorry, Sew. :)
Actually, I am rejoicing that you found something for
free that you wanted in that quantity.
We all should be so blessed.
I'm only emerald green, not forest. :) :)
Enjoy! I sure would be dancing if it had been me! :)
I will start looking around all the dumpsters at
appropriate places here, though most of them are locked.
Sewmaster
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> DH and I went to town today to do some errands and I noticed
> a LARGE number of giant plant pots - the black, unpretty
> kind that plant nurseries use - sitting next to the hotel's
> garbage dumpster. Well, of course I wanted them...
>
> They'll be fine just as they are for herbs or veggies on the
> deck in the back. They will also be good for putting over
> tomatoes and other plants at night if frost threatens in the
> spring.
>
> Pat
Elana Kehoe
> I'm wondering if they'll will take paint. I'd like to have
> several of them on our front porch full of flowers. I have
> a little bit of left-over white paint to experiment with.
> If they'll take paint, I think I'll paint them that
> terra-cotta red used for clay plant pots, or maybe white.
Just an idea, don't know if it would work. Mix some fine sand with
white glue, apply with hands to pot...
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The Real Bev
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> I wound up with 10 (ten!) of the 3-gallon size and 25
> (TWENTY-FIVE!) of the 6-gallon size. :) I'll share these
> with our neighbors if they want any of them.
>
> I'm wondering if they'll will take paint. I'd like to have
> several of them on our front porch full of flowers. I have
> a little bit of left-over white paint to experiment with.
> If they'll take paint, I think I'll paint them that
> terra-cotta red used for clay plant pots, or maybe white.
Wonderful! Every once in a while I'll find some of these on our bike rides,
but they're a real bitch to fasten to a bicycle! How about getting some of
those bamboo roll-up shades or matchstick curtains and making little fences
for them?
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Cheers,
Bev
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Arri London
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> Sewmaster is going to hate me for this one....Sorry, Sew. :)
>
> a LARGE number of giant plant pots - the black, unpretty
> kind that plant nurseries use - sitting next to the hotel's
> garbage dumpster. Well, of course I wanted them...
>
> anything about it. She tried finding the maintenance guy
> but couldn't. So we went on ahead and did our errands.
> Came back to the reception desk: she still hadn't found the
> maintenance man. At this point I gave up.
>
> While we were walking back to the car, the hotel's
> maintenance man came out pushing a laundry cart of towels.
> Turns out that the plant pots had never belonged to the
> hotel. Someone just dumped them there, and he'd be more
> than happy for us to take them off his hands...
>
> Little hatchback Subarus hold a lot. We stopped at a
> friend's house on the way home and gave him half of them.
>
> There are two sizes: one is a 3-gallon and the other I
> believe is a 6-gallon (a little shorter but broader than a
> 5-gallon bucket).
>
> I wound up with 10 (ten!) of the 3-gallon size and 25
> (TWENTY-FIVE!) of the 6-gallon size. :) I'll share these
> with our neighbors if they want any of them.
>
> I'm wondering if they'll will take paint. I'd like to have
> several of them on our front porch full of flowers. I have
> a little bit of left-over white paint to experiment with.
> If they'll take paint, I think I'll paint them that
> terra-cotta red used for clay plant pots, or maybe white.
>
> deck in the back. They will also be good for putting over
> tomatoes and other plants at night if frost threatens in the
> spring.
>
> Pat
Lucky you!
Don't know if they will take paint. When I get them, I don't
bother painting.
Used to work for a company that cloned plants and they
always had lots of those things to give away. It wasn't
worth their time and money to resterilise them.
Arri London
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> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:52:45 -0700, Arri London
> <bio...@ic.ac.uk> wrote:
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> >Pat Meadows wrote:
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> >
> >Lucky you!
> >
> >Don't know if they will take paint. When I get them, I don't
> >bother painting.
>
> front porch for flowers. Any I use for herbs or veggies
> will be fine the way they are - they'd be on the deck in the
> back of the house..
>
> But I'd like them 'prettied up' for the front porch.
>
> Pat
If 'normal' paint doesn't work, try the enamels meant for
painting models. They seem to stick to most plastics.
Otherwise, grow lots of trailing vines to cover them! Ivy
generally looks nice with most flowers.
Austin
gravel mixed with cement. They were quite lovely but probably a bit messy
to do. We were lucky to get some from the highway dept. They were
landscaping an area in NE Tarrant County & we stopped to ask what they did
with the containers. The project manager gave them to us - about 25 that
were a bit bigger than 5 gallon buckets and 10 that were 3 times that size.
Anna
K Gale
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> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:52:45 -0700, Arri London
> <bio...@ic.ac.uk> wrote:
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> >Pat Meadows wrote:
> >>
> >
> >
> >Don't know if they will take paint. When I get them, I don't
> >bother painting.
>
> front porch for flowers. Any I use for herbs or veggies
> will be fine the way they are - they'd be on the deck in the
> back of the house..
>
> But I'd like them 'prettied up' for the front porch.
>
> Pat
Pat-
You can paint them! I used regular artists acrylic paints on
one for my front porch over 5 years ago...it still looks great.
I also figured what the heck - those big containers are so
expensive, and a free one came with the tree I bought, so thought
I'd give it a try. It was fun to do, looks great with fuscias and
ivy every summer so far and has lasted through 5 Michigan winters.
Karen
Austin
for pans that are put under water heaters. The pan under our new water
heater is a heavy black plastic, about 2 inches high.
Austin
Austin
We've found the plates at garage sales for 10 cents.
Anna
The Real Bev
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> Yes, the big containers are very expensive. Fuschias and
> ivy sound great. And morning glories twining around the two
> pillars on the porch...
Not to rain on your parade or anything, but morning glories freeze and become
an instant brown net covering whatever managed to survive underneath them (the
Brits call them 'bindweed'). That being said, I LOVE the blue ones. What a
glorious color!
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Cheers,
Bev, who just planted some paloverde seeds and hopes they'll actually grow,
who just transplanted some iceplant cuttings, and who is really glad that so
many people like to plant flowers and orange trees.
dogsnus
news:3q5t8ucvon0n1ltl0...@4ax.com:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:30:11 -0800, The Real Bev
><bas...@myrealbox.com> wrote:
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>>Pat Meadows wrote:
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> Thanks, but yes, I know they freeze. I only want them there
> for summer. I'll toss them after the first frost in fall.
>
> I've grown morning glories before - it was in my little
> apartment in Delaware - a small one-story building. My
> bedroom and living room windows faced south and the summer
> sun was VERY hot.
Better check here first:
http://www.pacode.com/secure/data/007/chapter110/chap110toc.html
You may be better off with one of the newer hybrid varieties.
I love Hollyhocks, but certain species are considered a
noxious weed here. So I grow another variety.
Terri