Re-purposing: Make your own plant pots
 

I just thought this post may be handy for anyone who runs out of plant pots or who like me needs lots of them but hates paying those high prices!

I make my own out of the bottom of plastic bottles or line the wooden fruit crates with plastic. Just remember to poke holes in the bottom for drainage.

Regards

Fizzywitch

Great idea
 

Hi, those are great! I really like the wooden box ones as they are really handy for transporting them.

this is a good idea a bit late for me tho :( should have looked at this first

Well, you can always start stocking up for next year. :-)

Fizzywitch

no i better not stock up now or else there would take up to much room and ill only end up putting them up here lol

other use for bottles
 

i've used plastic bottles as mini cloches. cut top off bottle, turn bottom upside down, pierce a few air holes and put over shrub cuttings in flower pot. works for me!

Beckie

Hi Fizzywitch,

Great tips, where do you get the crate's? Thanks to carissa i have lots of veg plants now & the crates would be ideal for the lettuce.

Thanks & regards,
colmsmum.

I got them from the supermarket. They either throw them outside at the delivery doors or sometimes leave them at the tills.
They get their fruit delivered in them and I think they are scrapped after that so I was pleased to be able to make use of them.

I used feed bags to line them with and others I used the left over plastic sheeting from the polytunel my husband made for me!

Happy planting

Fizzywitch

Thanks for letting me know Fizzywitch, i'll ask next time im at the shops, hopefully i can get my hands on a few.

Regards,
colmsmum.

The Accidental Gardener
 

I just found out that I grew gorgeous strawberries this year without even knowing I had any!

My neighbour (apparently) gave me some last year and they grew! I am not a great gardener and did wonder "What the hell is that thing growing there?" Well, I just ate my first organically grown strawberry and it was yummy!

Next year I am going to try -for real - to grow them and lettuce too! Do you think they would do well in these wooden crates as I have no garden in Dublin.
I will post a picture of them, well, the ones that I have not eaten yet. I am eating each of them as they ripen!

strawberries
 

when they throw out runners, pot the runner up and you'll have new plants for next year. Keep this year's plants for one more year and then discard them. plant up next year's runners for the following year and so on! They're really hard to kill!

unapam
 

yes they will do fine in crates or a window box, you could put the strawberries in hanging baskets, dwarf cherry tomato plants, tom thumb is one variety or you can get a cherry tomato plant esp for hanging baskets it called tumbler, you dont need a garden to grow a few veg, you have a great imagination im sure you'll get plenty of ideas:)

I have loads of tomato plants coming up in the wooden crates along with some spinach and lots of herbs and they are all doing fine (so far)

It is all an experiment to me at the moment as my home made poly-tunnel has only been up since May this year. So whatever works for me this year will be put into practice next year too.

Did find out though that Caulis dont like the heat! should have read about them first!! :-)