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tidying up flower pots
Does anyone have any feasible suggestions for storing flower pots in such a way that they look fairly orderly or tidy? Are there commercial storage systems for them or ways to put them on shelves etc without piling them up inside each other? I have loads of pots. probably about several hundred which are of varying sizes and a few different shapes. I've tried putting them on concrete piled in little columns, tried laying them on their side etc but would love to buy or build something that you could store them in yet be able to get at each size if you wanted. How do large gardens/nurseries do it? janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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from Janet Tweedy contains these words: Does anyone have any feasible suggestions for storing flower pots in such a way that they look fairly orderly or tidy? Are there commercial storage systems for them or ways to put them on shelves etc without piling them up inside each other? I store mine stacked in sizes and shapes, laid flat in those big stackable plastic bakery trays. You can get the front ones out through the gap at the front of the tray, except when dratted wrens and robins make their nest in the front pot which seems to hapen rather often. At the last place, I had a neat little den for the stacks of trays, made with stacks of concrete blocks and roofing sheets on top. Here, they live in the cave under the oil tank. I get shipwrecked bakery trays from the beach, but you sometimes see them discarded on tips and in rivers. HTH Janet. |
In article , Sacha
writes We just pile them up in different open-topped wooden containers, according to size but we've probably got more space than domestic gardens to have several wooden 'skips' up by the oil tank. When new pots are supplied they come in long mesh 'stockings'. If you can get hold of something of that sort, it might help your problem. But the wooden containers wouldn't be difficult for anyone to make if they're reasonably handy with a hammer! Then the pots are stacked together and lie on their sides. I can see where I go wrong of course, I accept pots from all and sundry which means I have about four different shapes for every diameter:) Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
On 18/7/05 11:06, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote: In article , Sacha writes We just pile them up in different open-topped wooden containers, according to size but we've probably got more space than domestic gardens to have several wooden 'skips' up by the oil tank. When new pots are supplied they come in long mesh 'stockings'. If you can get hold of something of that sort, it might help your problem. But the wooden containers wouldn't be difficult for anyone to make if they're reasonably handy with a hammer! Then the pots are stacked together and lie on their sides. I can see where I go wrong of course, I accept pots from all and sundry which means I have about four different shapes for every diameter:) Janet Well, if you *want* to make life difficult for yourself.....! At a swimming pool the other day, I saw a sort of metal thing like a sturdy playpen, containing all the floats etc. they used for children. It was on wheels and I thought that could be a useful object for things like your plant pots. I suspect it's rather expensive, though. But perhaps an old-fashioned playpen, rather than one of the 'lobster pot' ones, would do the trick. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
In article , Janet Tweedy
writes In article , Sacha writes We just pile them up in different open-topped wooden containers, according to size but we've probably got more space than domestic gardens to have several wooden 'skips' up by the oil tank. When new pots are supplied they come in long mesh 'stockings'. If you can get hold of something of that sort, it might help your problem. But the wooden containers wouldn't be difficult for anyone to make if they're reasonably handy with a hammer! Then the pots are stacked together and lie on their sides. I can see where I go wrong of course, I accept pots from all and sundry which means I have about four different shapes for every diameter:) What I need is some storage system which will accept the stack of mixed sized and shaped pots which is the result of the average re-potting session and stack it away tidily so that next time I want 30 3inch pots they are all sitting there together waiting for me. I spent a couple of hours yesterday sorting through the 6 plastic storage bins under the cypress which is my current storage option, sorting all the pots into sizes and types, emptying out the cypress leaves, using the collected rainwater and brown sludge to water the pots on the terrace, and relocating the resident frogs to the main pond. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
In article , Sacha
writes But perhaps an old-fashioned playpen, rather than one of the 'lobster pot' ones, would do the trick. Oh I can understand that one, GOOD idea Sacha. Maybe I can get a second-hand one or even a second-hand puppy pen. Thanks Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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from Janet Tweedy contains these words: In article , Sacha writes But perhaps an old-fashioned playpen, rather than one of the 'lobster pot' ones, would do the trick. Oh I can understand that one, GOOD idea Sacha. Maybe I can get a second-hand one or even a second-hand puppy pen. Thanks I haven't been following this thread, but many years ago I visited the potting-shed of an old gardener, and he had his (clay) pots hanging from a beam in his shed. The beam had a row of nails, and the pots were on a line. The line had a loop at the top and a cut nail crossways on the bottom. Voila! A hanging barrage for when you're groping around in the dark! -- Rusty Emus to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co full-stop uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/ |
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote: The message from Janet Tweedy contains these words: In article , Sacha writes But perhaps an old-fashioned playpen, rather than one of the 'lobster pot' ones, would do the trick. Oh I can understand that one, GOOD idea Sacha. Maybe I can get a second-hand one or even a second-hand puppy pen. Thanks I haven't been following this thread, but many years ago I visited the potting-shed of an old gardener, and he had his (clay) pots hanging from a beam in his shed. The beam had a row of nails, and the pots were on a line. The line had a loop at the top and a cut nail crossways on the bottom. Voila! A hanging barrage for when you're groping around in the dark! Buy half a dozen of those cheap plastic net scrunchy jobs sold for exfoliating yourself in the shower. Remove the cord holding the loops together, you will be left with a couple of metres of net tube which will expand to take up to a 15cm diameter pot, and is flexible enough to cope with differing shapes. Tie a knot in one end and thread a piece of cord through as a drawstring at the other. Hang up or not, as desired. -- Jo |
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