Stop looking in my shed!!
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Sent my partner this meme, got a reply: “Shut up!”
Well done, OP
Same here...
I'm very guilty of this myself, and all I do is a small window garden in my apt. I'm sure I have 20x unused pots laying around vs used. XD
Why aren't you using them? Seeds are cheap.
Lack of adequate window space / light is the primary issue.
"But think of all the seedlings I can start in their own pots!" (Are you me?)
How dare you say something so true
You can fold one from an old paper in case of emergency so you don't have to keep the plastic ones.
There was the scene in Perfect Days, where the protagonist sees a small plant, so he opens his wallet to get a some paper out of it. He unfolds it and it turns out to be a paper flower pot that he used to take the plant home.
And if you need one you can check the nearest graveyard. People tend to show up with flowers, plant them, and then throw away the pots. I could literally get several dozen plastic flower pots from the trash cans at my local graveyard whenever I want. There's not even anything besides flower pots and soil bags in there.
Why are you so wise? Do you have more tips like this one?
If you need fertilizer, you can go to the same graveyard and dig up the bones of someone's grandma. They have plenty anyway.
I'm not much of a gardener but I do have a frugal girlfriend who loves gardening.
What I can say is that sansevieria make decent gifts for people who are bad at plants; they don't really care much about getting too much or too little water or light. So they're great for people who forget to water their plants three weeks in a row and then water daily for a week because they keep forgetting they just watered the day before. (I'm speaking from first-hand experience here...)
Practical origami, very nice!
Interesting how he's not just using them for a temp purpose, but seemingly using a bunch of them to grow parsnip seedlings. Would newspaper really stand up to repeated waterings, though?
Paper doesn't degrade nearly as fast as you’d think, especially if its just damp and you aren’t putting pressure on it causing it to tear.
I used to use single sheets of newspaper to line my veg garden as weed barrier and they lasted an entire season no problem. I stopped because it’s hard to get newspaper now, and I don’t want to use colored ink pages.
Thanks for explaining. I still see newspaper in the supermarket.
Sadly, that reminds me that the bi-weekly, independent 'current happenings'-type paper disappeared around 10yrs ago. And this is a major Midwestern city, where it used to be quite popular.
I feel personally attacked
I take them back to the garden center where they supposedly get reused. Broken terracotta ones get put around my garden as they make awesome spider and lizard homes. Just, like.. Don't fall on them.
they make awesome spider and lizard homes.
I love it!
We give them to nature orgs and government run projects that raise and sell native plants. They definitely reuse them.
Nice, there's a place like that which I visit one a year. I'll see if they'll take them next time.
Don't think that throwing them into a volcano is such a great idea.
Then how else am I supposed to appease both the volcano and plants goddesses at the same time?
Yeah, why not just send the giant eagles to throw them in the volcano
The eagles don't meddle in the trivial doings of mortals. And they don't collect your garbage.
But Bilbo could at least stack them like a sane hobbit.
The eagles don’t meddle in the trivial doings of mortals.
They did when Gandalf asked them to. All we're talking about is a different flight plan.
In the Ring issue, while mortals had become involved, in the grand scope of it all it was a higher beings' matter. Sauron trying to dominate Middle Earth was clearly off the intended path, and Eru Ilúvatar even had to step in at the last minute to ensure success, which was highly unusual. Of course the eagles would help with part of that if a Maiar asked them.
I feel targeted
Lemmy is listening to our recent Amazon purchases.
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I thought I needed 3 little ones. It turned out we needed like 20. So a little better.
Could also include random things that could be pots even though you already have a shed full of 9cm's
This but also a six foot tall stack of 32oz Greek yogurt tubs.
More like 30x
PETCO and probably other pet stores have a giant cat litter station where you can refill your own container and just pay for the contents.
All of mine are currently full of raspberries, so it pays off!
My first laugh of the work week. Thank you.
I take them back to the nursery where I buy the seedlings,I also take the multiple ones back
I keep all kinds of stuff that I use as planters. Goes in a box in the storage building out back.
Im married to Bilbo and I love it
Pick up a sprouted herb for a couple bucks at a hardware store, plant it in one of the pots, and give it to a friend. ^_^ (or grow one from a cutting if you can)
But then you have the pot the herb came in.
Y'all are hoarding those pots?
Yeah, because they're free, and I do a lot of propagating. Why wouldn't I use them?
See: OP's meme.
The only ones I don’t hoard are the ones that are basically clear plastic cups, everything else goes on a shelf in my garage to use for seedlings until they start falling apart. Needless to say, I have a lot of pots 😬
I'm glad that I can't stand plastic, so I've been getting rid of these pretty quickly...
Is there some concern with plastic affecting the plants?
It's not that rational of a position. I mainly just think that plastic looks and feels tacky as hell.
I mean, I am also trying to reduce plastic items in my household in general, because it's just less potential sources of microplastics, but I have no idea, if these pots would even give off any microplastics. They don't typically get abraded, at least.
I guess, on the flipside though, non-plastic pots can be good for plants. For example, if you have a plant which struggles in moist soil, then a terracotta pot can help to move that moisture out.
Okay, I see.
terrecotta pot
Yeah, I probably need to do that with a couple Jade cuttings I just bought, as I understand that residual moisture in the root area is bad news for them. Also, I evidently need to swap out the soil with a courser mix, possibly even just small pebbles.
They'll certainly shed microplastics, but it's not really a household environmental source concern. The main pathway is through eating or drinking, so if you had edible plants in plastic pots then maybe. But it's still not nearly as much as plastic food containers, especially if you're using them for prep, or the worst, reheating food in the microwave in plastic.