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General => News => Topic started by: Hyacinth on April 22, 2008, 17:11:38
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I've just come back from a week in the US and was buying plants in pots at at GC (as you do ;D).....
Apart from the larger plants in 1 gal. containers, and therefore in the standard rigid non-recycleable plastic pots we know, anything under that was sold in what was to me a 'jiffy' pot which had only a thin plastic collar on which was printed the plant name, growing instructions, etc.....and THAT collar was made of 'degradeable material'.(according to the blurb)....?
I was SO impressed..
But is this news? Are UK retailers doing the same? I'd love to know, cheers!
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You can get biodegradable plant pots in the UK, they are supposed to last about 5 years & when your done with them you just break them & chuck them on the compost heap.
http://www.thegardensuperstore.co.uk/acatalog/Biodegradable_Plant_Pots.html
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Why can't they make the square ones biodegradable too?
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You can get biodegradable plant pots in the UK, they are supposed to last about 5 years & when your done with them you just break them & chuck them on the compost heap.
http://www.thegardensuperstore.co.uk/acatalog/Biodegradable_Plant_Pots.html
I got some of these last year and I really like them (the plants seem to like them as well). They seem to hold moitture better. The only thing is they need quite a sharp wack to get the plants out.
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Why can't they make the square ones biodegradable too?
They can if you get the more expensive orglastic biodegradable pots vipot don't appear to be making square ones yet.
http://www.orglastic.co.uk/products.htm