Do to cost considerderation (and actual in-ground space limitations), I went
to K-Mart (Wal-Mart, Target, whatever) and bought a number of the larger
clear plastic storage containers. You can get them in fairly large sizes -
much wider/longer than deep and some even have "feet" to raise them from the
ground and handles to carry them. Then drill, melt or poke drainage holes
in them. I've got a couple of trees from the nursery growing out in them
and one fairly large Yew that I dug up that is recovering in one of the big
ones. I plan on using this type of container on quite a few of the trees
I'll be trunk thickening starting in the spring. Depending on the size you
need, Jim's suggestion is probably the cheapest - buy the REALLY cheap large
plastic pots at a nursery and cut them down to half the height.

Jeff Isom
Cleveland, OH / Sunset Zone 39

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lewis
I think from Jim's detailed reply I can presume that we're
talking
about a clay pot.

??? Not necessarily. Most of all my "growing-on" trees are in
cut-down plastic pots.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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