Where to get reasonable planters

I just purchased some 22inch pot from ome depot for 13.00.... insulated too! I bought 10 of them!! Nice looking!

JM

jane...what color?

terra cotta

They were normally 23.00 or 26.00 not sure...but I thought it was a good deal!

They are nice.

OOOh, I'd better beat feet to my HD and see if I can score some. That's my fav, the thick ones...& looking like clay, all the better, THX.

Scoooooore! Yesterday I found someone setting up for a garage sale, she had two large stacks of large to medium plastic terra-cotta and grey planters, the ones that look sorta real if you don't look too closely. I asked her if she'd take $40 for all, so I got 36 24" to 8" planters, and she threw in two glass plant stakes, a hummingbird and a butterfly.

WOOOOAW Looks like a winter project.

The only thing you missed was the partridge in the pear tree.

Wow, ge, you really did score...lucky you.

I passed by a Gsale this spring and got an iron wall hung planter with 3 large half round bays, for $5.

slyguy! It wasnt my score ,alas.
I am on notice from DD 'No More Containers'

LOL...I am apparently on notice, too.

If you spread them out in your gardens,no-one will notice.

Do any of you have advise on an inexpensive way to easily move the containers? I want to be able to wheel my container tomatoes in and out of my garage. We have far more warm days in winter then cold ones but when it gets cold it gets really cold.

I have some small metal troughs that have rusted through a little on the bottom and I was going to put wheels on the bottom but I'm not sure if that will work.

Normally I just carry/drag the containers but after a few frosts I loss my ambition.
Thanks

I use a garden wagon.

I would need alot of them.

I use a hand truck.

I just don't want to have to keep picking the things up thats the same as dragging and the troughs will be too heavy once I get the soil in. I did look at casters and they weren't too expensive. I may try that. That way I can keep them outside and not dread taking them back in when a cold front is blowing through.

Some folks in my moms old neighborhood had a contraption a bit longer than a car and about 4' wide, on big wheels. They had a rim to keep pots on and a tall crossmember, like a closet rod built on it about 6' high on which they hung hanging baskets. They's use one garage and you'd see them wheeled out on nice days.

Sylguy, that sounds like something one of my neighbors used to have; it really looked convenient. Of course, it helps if one has a garage!

I have the garage.
sylguy-Kinda like a trailer?

Not a trailer...no hitch, just a pushme pullyou.

The handtruck has become a lifesaver for me. You don't have to lift them, just tilt enough to get the hand truck under the pot. A lot better than lifting or push me pull me. If you have them all on concrete the casters will probably work fine, but if you are going across dirt/grass, you would need some large casters to keep from getting frustrated with it.

Even my handtruck casters squash down sometimes. I have even pulled pots around on those green tarps...just we the grass, and slip-n-slide! :D

I'll think of something I just really want to overwinter tomato plants in containers, still thinking of putting casters on the bottom of small troughs. I wouldn't even bother if we had a lot of cold days but when its 40* in the AM and 85* in the afternoon I want to give it a try.
Lisa

The Dollar Tree has exceptionally fine 2.5 gallon plastic containers with handles for .....right....$1.00 each. They aren't meant for planting, but my drill puts nice fat holes in the bottom. They come in black, blue and red, and so far this season I have bought at least 40 of them.... (The gophers have made such terrible inroads into my 1/2 acre that I am digging all sorts of stuff up and making sure that I have spares in containers just in case they take something I can't replace. And nothing goes into the ground without a gopher wire basket either.....sigh....)

Susan

Euw! I had gophers in Ca. and they are real pests.

Squirrels here are my annoying little friends...they chomp down on geraniums like salad, and recently chewed enough on the TV, Dish cables to interfere with the signal.

Don't tell me your from Ca too? Where abouts?

I watched my 91 year old neighbor show his son-in-law how to move a heavy pot (filled with soil and plants). He had son-in-law tilt it, then he took a "grain scoop" type shovel and pushed it under the pot and drug it to where they wanted it. It seemed too simple

Good Lord his SIL must be in his sixties so at 46 I should be able to manage it. lol Its not really that they are heavy its because I could (if I let myself) have a lot of them. Maybe I'll get it out of my thick head that I don't need to over winter tomato plants.
I do have the grain scoop. Thanks for the suggestion Bookie, since your in Alaska maybe I shouldn't complan about the cold : ) but it sure beautiful in your neck of the woods.

91?
I'm nearly 75 and think I cant do anything.
We need a thread for gardeners with age and arthritis issues and pass along tips on how we manage garden jobs.

ge, mostly I manage slowly and carefully and wish for those younger, stronger days (or a helper with a strong back and weak mind .... :)

Slower gardening seems to be the way I do things now.
Also gardens are smaller and no new spaces, just gardening what is underway.
Many cleanup chores dont get done for months.

Speed's not all it's cracked up to be! Slower gives us more time to 'enjoy the moment.'

I feel the distance from the garden to the tools in the garage gets longer every month.

I agree with all of the above messages. And now I have I think a pinched nerve in my lower back. I was in the hosp. twice last week end, Oct. 3 & 4th. Saw 4 different Doctors, 4 different diagnoses, and prescriptions. A friend brought me home Mon. noon. Haven't seen a Dr. since then. Left a message with my Dr.'s nurse, never heard back from anyone., so have been my own Dr.!!!!! The pain is bad, but I have a high pain level, and with the help of a few Tylenol have been able to live with it. The pain killers the Drs, prescribed did not help at all.

I am seeing a special home Dr., that other people have recommended, this week. and beginning Physical Therapy. Hiopefully will get relief soon. Can't do much of anything garden related. Temp down to 35 this morning and frost predicted for tomorrow. All of my potted plants are still on the deck. The fellow who other years worked for me has been on vacation for more than 6 weeks. He worked 4 hours for me in that time. Not much help. But you understand why I move slowly.

Donna

Sherman99 in the California forum says she has discovered that pot belly pig poo drives away gophers.

I get my containers at Home Depot, Lowes or a local store. Next year I will get most, if not all, of mine from HD or a local nursery. The nursery has plastic pots in sizes or shapes that are hard to find in the colors I need. HD has basic ones for cheaper than other places.

I put the plastic ones in fancier planters. I also put plastic inside terrecotta just to keep the natueral look.
I dont plant in Terrecotta ,they dry out too soon.