Looking for chep big pots / planters

CostCutter

Hi Folks

Can anyone tell me where the best place is to buy some cheap big pots to put my tomato plants in.

I don't have a lot of spare money to spend but I need to move them out of the pots they are in at the moment and I also have quite a few (I planted them from seed and I wasn't sure how many would take and ended up with lots) I have some sweet baby trailing plants which I plan to put in hanging baskets.

Thank you

stilernin

I won't be the last to say this, but ............... 'Morrisons buckets' is what you want.

In fact most supermarkets will let you have the black buckets that cut flowers are delivered in. Price? 99p for 8, to free if you are lucky. I was given 11 by Lidl the other day. As far as I understand it, they are not reused by the stores, not even put into the recycling

Remember to put some holes in the bottom.

valk_scot

Buy grow bags, cut them in half and stand each half upright. Cut a few holes in the base for drainage and plant one tomato plant in each half. Cheap as it comes but perfectly effective.

CostCutter

stilernin wrote: »

I won't be the last to say this, but ............... 'Morrisons buckets' is what you want.

In fact most supermarkets will let you have the black buckets that cut flowers are delivered in. Price? 99p for 8, to free if you are lucky. I was given 11 by Lidl the other day. As far as I understand it, they are not reused by the stores, not even put into the recycling

Remember to put some holes in the bottom.

Wow that would be good, I'll try and flower buckets, I would have thought they would be re-using them? What a waste.


Valk_scot... I might try your idea too, see if there's a difference? I have 3 bags of compost I need to use 1st or my hubby will shoot me!

I grew a few things last year but this is my 1st big attemp at growing veg

rabidbun

Incase you have no luck with Morrisons, I got a fair few tubs (a bit shallow, but good for crops that didn't have deep roots) cheap from pound shops and the like.

The others were a mixture as I saw them cheap ish online - I think my last batch were Wilkinsons online for around £4 each. Not hugely cheap, but large and sturdy that will last for growing seasons to come, so getting a few every so often has worked well and I now have around 50 assorted large pots.

Mrs_Domino

All of the above and car boots. I got 10 really big pots (just smaller than the flower buckets) for a quid. My local one also sells the flower buckets but it was 6 for £2.50

DaftyDuck

Ask your "posh" neighbours! Nice elderly lady next door gave me most of the large black pots she'd got from the garden centre - plus loads of "bits" from the plants themselves. Morrisons, yep, they hand them on (but ours started charging a while back). Poundstore has fairly hideous plastic "terracotta look" pots. You can just use a bucket, any compost bag (turn them inside-out, and all the garish writing vanishes, leaving a black outsid - good for keeping the soil warm as well). Growbags work out cheap - you get the soil included. I'd never tried putting one on end, valk_scott, I'll have to give that a go... I have one big one left, and not really got space for a "flattie"

El_mag

Poundland, you can get large, medium & small plastic pots including rectangular ones for a pound. I have just used them n seem to be ok.

dreaming

I often use the plastic storage baskets that are often sold in packs of 4 (usually for just a couple of quid) and often used for children's toy storage. They come in different size and colours so you can have a variety. I line them with compost bags (as the sides are quite open) and fill with compost and plant. I have grown tomatoes and peppers in the slightly bigger ones, and some smaller shallower ones are my cut-and-come again salad beds. I have also used old washing up bowls/buckets/cheap plastic wastepaper bins as well. Oh, and don't forget Homebase usually have a "help yourself" crate of plastic pots - although they tend to be the smaller ones.
If you don't like the look of the plastic "terracotta" pots you can easily paint them (just give them a quick rub with some sandpaper first).

Bandhia

This year I'm growing most of my veg in basic black buckets that I bought from ASDA - for about 97p each, as I recall. They are very solid and good quality - just had a look online but couldn't see them on their website, but I know Wickes do similar ones for around £1.20 each.

glodh1973

I thought i would ask in asda on off chance and they have been giiving me them free apparently all asda do with them is get rid

so i think they are quite pleased to get rid of them too me lol

HTH