I just love you three and love that Linda has Leah as a kind of daughter to share with and teach and learn from each other. Stewart is amazing too! You all just mesh so well together. I’m going to be making that cocktail, sounds wonderful!!😊
If you want to go really big, livestock mineral buckets are great! If you know anyone with horses or cattle you can get them for free. They take Rustoleum paint well, and are great for crafting. I made mine into self-watering containers so in the summer it's only watering once a week. They also make great garden clean up tubs.
Pots are expensive now, this is a good idea to recycle and use it again. I love your ideas, We learn ways to have a nice garden without expending too much, not like other channels expending thousands in plants and pots , like everybody has the same budget.
MY husband asked me why I keep so many plastic pots as we were doing fall clean up and storage. I do use some of your reasons and a few of my own. I use quite a few for holding plants that will be transplanted at some point and they are handy for the plants donated to garden club sales. I am definitely going to plant tulip bulbs using the plastic pots and plop in other pots. Glad I didn"t plant them before seeing this. Thank you .
The idea to put a plastic plant pot in the massive containers and to conceal the entire surface with gravel is brilliant. I recently pulled a muscle when repotting a larger planter and thought I would now have to say goodbye to the beautiful terracotta pots in the garden. But thanks to your great idea, the beautiful heavy planters can stay.
I use this technique for my house plants & it never occurred to me to use on my outside pots . Great idea . I have some nice huge ceramic pots that I have to store inside when temperatures and snow start flying.
Great ideas! I saved a few black nursery pots because I saw the title of this video, but had not watched it yet. Last night, I was looking for large pots to put some banana trees and elephant ears plants in that someone had given me, and there were those saved nursery pots. So tonight I sat down and watched this video. Win! Win! I also learned from you, to put plastic pots inside my hanging baskets to keep them from drying out so quickly. It really works! Thank you!
You're so right about double-potting holding in moisture. The only way I was able to successfully keep Boston Ferns was by putting the fern in a nursery pot inside a somewhat larger resin pot. Not only did they last through a hot summer, they grew massively for three years.
I'm saving them and layered into terracotta pots just like you do. It's easy to replace anytime. Sometimes big ones for tomatoes , peppers also I save small cell packs and inserts for cuttings. I recycle a lot.
I spray the good looking extra large hard plastic nursery pots satin black lightly. I used for all my veggies and some annual flowers. They look great and dont tip over in the wind and best of all they are food safe and free
I love your ideas. They are functional, economic and practical. I always thought all plants HAD to go directly in the ground. Your potting methods will take my garden to a whole new level. Never thought about growing bulbs in pots!! Thank you.
Love them and have actualy bought loads of the big to giant sizes. The smaller ones are best for re-cycling. Exactly perfect for growing large shrubs and trees in pots behind other pots in borders, on terraces etc as the black colour means they disappear but the plant doesn't. Also nice to put in more decorative but perhaps fragile expensive pots you dont want roots destroying. Perfect for plants with known aggressive roots you want in pots long-term like standard camelias or cordylines. Word of caution pests like pot weevils and earwigs, slugs, cut worms and snails love to hide in the gap when a pot is placed into another container. This makes a perfect hiding spot during the day, at night they come out and do their damage. So you may want to fill that gap with something. I use pure sand or fine grit as its easy to pour in and critters can't get into that either. With a basket try using a bin-liner (trash bag) then fill in that between the pot, unless its a very fine weave it's not he best hiding place so might not be needed
Yes ! Love those pots too!!! When I was a much younger lady and learning all about taking care of my yard , my landscaping lady who did my yard , taught me all about saving those pots and what to do with them! Loved her ! The best tip she taught me was to use those great big ones as a cleanup bucket instead of a wheelbarrow , like when I would be trimming , deheading old blooms , etc. just fill it up and take it and empty it on the compost pile. They are not heavy and easy to tote around on your hip 😜. I’m sure you know all of that but I just wanted to add a comment and mainly say , I love watching you! I have just recently found your site , I would love to come and hang out with you in your yard and watch and learn from you ! You’re my kind of yard lady! I just wish I had my husband to be out helping me like yours does! Can I bring him and y’all “try” and teach him a thing or two ?!!! I’m sure you have done this already but I would love for you to show your yard when you have it all put together in each season , I know it must be beautiful ! Sorry for the long comment !
Great tips! Especially the bonus! I've got bulbs arriving now and now I have ideas for planting some. Inspired by your basket planters I now have some too. Now I know better how to use them! Thanks for all the tips. And I love your jacket!
Although I garden in zone 4 in Canada and cannot plant some of the plants you can, your ideas can be used universally! I love your thrifting and recycling ideas.
Love your ideas and the size of those nursery pots. I have the much smaller gallon or less size. I do save some to use as liners in smaller pots or for seed starting.
I have been experimenting with the same idea. I just need a bigger garden to put the pots/plants after they have finished flowering for the season. Like the hair style by the way.
The baskets would last a bit longer if they were raised up off the ground. You can purchase (or maybe make?) little triangular “pot feet,” about 3/4” thick and a couple of inches long and wide. Just place 3 or 4 of these under the basket; use more for larger pots. They also protect a wooden deck from water remaining under pots after watering. Another alternative solution is to use the wire stands, about 2” high, available at Dollar stores. Some have legs, and some have wheels!! Whatever you can figure out that will allow the water to dry up, rather than pool under and rot the baskets. Another tip: I place a few of the plastic 6-pack containers, or some of the small plastic pots, upside-down, in the bottom of large pots before I fill them with soil. Saves on soil, and makes the big pots a bit lighter to lift and carry. Also, to create a reservoir of water: using a pot without drainage holes in the bottom, I drill several holes a couple of inches up the sides of the pot, place the containers (as mentioned above) upside down in the bottom, then add the soil. 🤗 Happy gardening!!❤️
People laugh at my husband and I for hoarding or keeping things. They do not laugh when we do not have to buy a lot of stuff and we have items in our garage, basement, or shed we can use. Love this idea. I subscribed. ♡
The really big ones are great to move around the garden with, an use to collect any weeds that you pull, pruned yard waste,etc. It is easier than dragging a big lawn refuse bag with you.
Great ideas so practical. I have used the black pots as liners for years but you gave me a few new ways to try. You are a gardener after my own heart. Thank you Linda.
Love all your creative ideas of hoarding all these plastic nursery pots. Your videos are so inspiring and educational, especially for someone like me who knows very little about gardening. So so glad to find your youtube channel. For sure, I'll be looking for more of your videos. Many many thanks!🥰🌺🌹🌼🍁
Thanks Linda! I have always saved my bigger black pots because they come in so handy for several different reasons. You have just given me so many different reasons for doing so!! Loved the rolled up jeans btw!
I’m using the nursery pots for plants under the Japanese maple. Shallow roots don’t allow digging and it was my only shaded area so now I have shade plants!
Yes! I have them in all sizes! The smallest ones I used to transfer seedlings into and have them waiting in my small greenhouse. I have 2 huge ones I used as a compose bin on which I put a smaller one with plants in it so the composting gets hidden from the nosey HOA 😂
I save many of the very small individual and compartmentalized pots (4-packs & 6-packs) that the flowers & vegetable plants are sold in, to use as seed-starting containers in the spring, to start zinnias, cosmos, morning glories, etc. The quart size pots I use for going around my flower beds, and gathering little baby seedlings ("freebies") from flowers like blue ageratum (coming up for over 7 years in a row, around my birdbath), violas, that I find growing. I put them in the quart pots and let them get bigger, to transplant in empty spots around my flower beds, where I'd like to see them bloom and reseed. I always keep a couple of regular sized planters filled with soil, that I don't plant anything in. As summer goes by, and a pot or hanging basket of portulaca's (or snapdragons I have planted in the garden) flowers go to seed, I gather these seeds and throw them in the planter with soil only. One for the portulaca seeds, one for the snapdragons, etc. Then the following Spring, you have all these baby plants coming up that you can thin out (even put in the empty 4-packs/6-packs), let them grow a bit bigger, and transplant to wherever you need them! You can't imagine how many flowers you can get this way. I even had a pot that I threw petunia seeds in, and tons of baby petunia seedlings popped up in the Spring! And mind you, I live in SW PA, very cold winters. With the ageratum, and plants like verbena bonariensis, I usually just crumble a flower head that's gone to seed, over the area where I'd like to see it come up next year.
@@helenoleksyn5198 no, I don't plant any seeds in the ground now, in the fall. But the pots that I dump seeds in (portulaca seeds and petunia, snapdragon seeds) aren't even covered in dirt. I just drop them on top, and in the Spring, those pots are bursting with baby seedlings. Around my birdbath, the blue ageratum that is drying up and going to seed, I just grab a flower head of dried seeds and sprinkle them around the birdbath, trying to evenly distribute them around it. I don't rake the seeds in or cover with dirt. And they'll come up again next year. I just started moving the blue ageratum "freebies" to my back yard flower beds, to get them growing there too. The verbena bonariensis self-sows everywhere too. I don't mulch the flowerbeds, and my sister says that's why the plants self-sow so easily. But I did use mulch last year around my birdbath planting, and the ageratum still came up this year.
Linda ur video is not only how to use a pot in different ways rather a better understanding how to use the money wisely and technology supposed to make our lives easier and faster for things that we love to do like using a """pot"""
Hi Linda l am with you on the black planters .l love what you are going to do with the pots jazzy them up l just love all your reasons for .l really helpful video today
Great ideas, Linda. Please be sure to clean the pots before putting new plants in there. A diluted bleach solution should do the trick - clean away all residual soil & other matter -- this will help prevent the transfer of any diseases or pests that may be in the old soil that clings to the sides & bottom of the pot.
Gel stain works great for a rustic natural finish. The less perfect you apply the better......easie piasie, guaranteed. I use Old Master gel stain brand recommended for exterior and interior use. Mix and match the colors is super easy for more interesting creation.
Another source of those large size pots is emptied cattle protein tubs. Some farmers are happy to give them away free, others will charge $3-$5 each. Many gardeners use them for growing crops at home. With so many people starting to grow food at home now, they may or may not be so easily available... just look out for them on Craigslist, FB Marketplace, etc.
For the ones that are plopped into baskets, do you just take them out when watering or is it safe to water while in the basket? I use the pint, quart, and gallon sized for seedlings or holding over plants needing to be transplanted like others have said. I don't usually have pots your sized, but when I do I will remember these tips!
Thank you from Japan. Helpful. Now I'll appreciate the plastic containers. I didn't understand well the annual flowers and having the next season flowers ready?
Another option in case you guys (like me this year) bought way too many potted plants to keep all of your pots at your house: native plant nurseries will generally accept them for use in their greenhouses. I’m definitely going to be trying out those faux finishes next year, such a good idea!
Loved this video! I usually discarded my black pots. I can't wait to use them in my terracotta and other pots. I was wondering if you always have drainage holes in the bigger pots you put these in? Like the big topiary you displayed.
Question for you? Can you plant your fall mums in the ground now and they come back in the spring? I'm in Michigan and I planted one in the ground last fall, it came up, slowly, but it came up, and now it looks beautiful and is starting to bloom. Is that typical?
I've taken a black, 3 gallon pot and covered the sides with bark that's shredded off of my mature crape myrtle trees (thanks for that idea in another one of your videos). It's currently planted with an ornamental pepper plant for fall. By the way, where are your boots?
Stores like Home Depot and Lowe’s have places in their garden dept where they put these pots and you are allowed to take them. If you have too many you can take them and add to the pile for other people to take.
@@divin-inarizona7125 Advertise on NextDoor and FB Marketplace for "reusable"" plastic pots. Some people don't have enough, and for others the garage is full, as in my case. Gardeners like to have their pots go to happy families. You might even get some free cuttings.
My hubby and I follow landscape companies after they finish landscaping an office park or new home or apartment complex. Once they're finished the dumpsters are filled with pots of every size! We Use the giant ones to grow sweet potatoes, the 10 gallon for giving potted tomato plants to friends and neighbors, and fill the greenhouse with seedlings to put out in May. We find endless uses!
Hey Linda, now I see myself hitting 50% basket sale at Hobby Lobby and Michael’s! The faux finish and use of the gravel is just brilliant. I’m going to look for the ones with straight smooth sides. You have the best tips ever!!! 🌸
Thank you for justifying my pot hoarding 😍😍😍 Where do you keep all your stuff ?? It is always so neat and orderly around there but you always have stuff 🤷🏼♀️
When u water them, how do you prevent the moisture from rotting the baskets? I used to do this but the baskets rotted eventually Is there some sort of product that can be used to waterproof the inside of the basket? You have the most gorgeous garden!
I save my nursery pots as well, but usually just to weed and help me pick up leaves in the garden. Now, I have 5 additional reasons to explain to my husband why I need to keep "all of those pots"! Linda, your videos are always filled with such great content, but what I'd really like to know, is where did you purchase that gorgeous shelving unit behind you, in the house? Just consider me your nosy neighbor. :-)
