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054-Plastic Nursery Pots – Greening Up The Darkest Side of Gardening

The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

Joe Lamp'l

Home & Garden, Hobbies, Leisure

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We all love bringing new flowers, trees and shrubs home from the garden center. These plants add color, texture or flavor to our landscape – sometimes all of the above. Unfortunately, they leave a less desirable legacy too – a pile of empty plastic nursery pots and trays. You might say this is the darkest […]

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover

0:08.7

everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required.

0:13.1

And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner,

0:18.5

Joe Lampel.

0:19.5

Hey everybody, it's Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner

0:23.3

Show.

0:24.3

Well, we're coming into June and it's planting time here at the Garden Farm.

0:29.1

Well, you know, actually pretty much every month is planting time here, but this is indeed

0:35.9

a time where the vegetable garden beds are really getting loaded up, and then I can't

0:40.6

help myself.

0:41.6

I'm planting everywhere around the Garden Farm in all the raised beds, but I can't help

0:45.8

myself all over the landscape.

0:47.5

I'm adding new plants all the time, but I tell you that just to say I am well aware of

0:54.1

the accumulation of all the plastic pots that come along with those plants, even though

0:59.3

tiny little six packs that you get if you're buying vegetable starts from the nursery

1:04.2

or garden center, and I start about 100% of all of my seedlings for my vegetable garden.

1:09.4

And this year it was thousands, so each one ended up with its own little container.

1:15.3

And I cannot bring myself to get rid of those, not even one, and let's its torn, I have

1:21.7

to save it.

1:22.7

Everyone.

1:23.7

And of course, on the one gallon and three gallon containers, and every now and then

1:27.3

when you buy a really big plant or even a tree and you get lucky, you get the big 15

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