Biodegradable Pots

crmauch · April 30, 2015

I just came across this article (from 2010) doing a comparison of various types of 'biodegradable' pots (most of which are 'plantable' rather than just 'compostable'.

http://longwoodgardens.org/blog/2010...egradable-pots

I thought it was interesting although I now mostly make pots from newspaper as you can see here (I apologize for the bad focus):

amideutch · April 30, 2015

Interesting article. Been using CowPots for the last 5 years and never had a problem with the walls tearing even after completely submerging them in my preplant dip solution of Mycogrow, Actinovate and BiotaMax prior to plant out.

Tomorrow I will be potting up my seedlings started in Jump start peat Pellets into 4" square and 5" round CowPots.

Ami

BigVanVader · April 30, 2015

Where did you get those plastic tubs crmauch?

crmauch · April 30, 2015

You mean the white plastic containers? They're the bottom half of Chinese food containers!

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Where did you get those plastic tubs crmauch?

BigVanVader · April 30, 2015

Dang your lucky, our Chinese places all use foil box things

Gardeneer · April 30, 2015

Looks good.
I have accumulated so many plastic 3" pots that I don't need any thing to buy or make. I reuse them year after year plus we get more new ones when we buy flowers and that sort of things.
You can also get them for free at Lowes sometimes. Just ask !

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BigVanVader Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Greenville, South Carolina Posts: 3,099	Where did you get those plastic tubs crmauch?

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Gardeneer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7 Posts: 4,919	Looks good. I have accumulated so many plastic 3" pots that I don't need any thing to buy or make. I reuse them year after year plus we get more new ones when we buy flowers and that sort of things. You can also get them for free at Lowes sometimes. Just ask !