Specialty Gardening: Are Plastic Containers Inherently Bad?, 1 by rutholive

rutholive wrote:
I'm with a lot of you can't move large soil filled containers. I prefer the foam type. The tall ones I use plastic bags of peanuts to fill up some of the space and doesn't add weight. I think I read somewhere that wasn't a very good idea, but I just do the peanut filled bags in large deep pots and/or ones I am planting with annuals so don't think they need as much soil.

I did buy a set of graduated size glazed high fired clay pots, size 24" x 30", largest and on down smaller.Here is a picture of how I am trying to protect them, the pots and the plants in them for the winter. Chicken wire fastened to metal fence post around clustered together pots. Then the free utility line shreds used for insulation. And now there is probably 9 inches of snow on top, which now is frozen on top.

Donna