where can i find these items

cheap! i need greenhouse supplies. trays, pots etc. and at a low price.

Walmart has some Fiskar all plastic, good quality small garden tools (97 cents each). They also have some nice size pots at a good price. If you have a Franks Nursery & Crafts, sometimes they run REALLY good sales. Otherwise they are too expensive. Have you tried the Dollar store or Jo-Ann Fabrics? I know Jo-Ann fabrics sounds weird, but they carry seasonal items and they almost always have a sale!

jfc - It's Memorial weekend!! I used to get loads of pots from the graveyard trash cans. I bet if you gon on Tuesday morning you'll hit the jack pot.

if you go to a local garden center, they should have some used pot really cheap. I get mine at one here. They want 5cents for the 4 1/2" ones and they have bigger ones too but that's what I usually get for seedlings and stuff. They may say they don't have any, they always tell me that here until I tell them that they do........LOL

I agree with Flowox - try your nurseries; some may give you the pots for free. If you get to know the manages of the home/garden center (even the big chains, if you can convince the manager that you just want the pots and you're not going to try to bring back the plants for a refund), he/she might let you have their discards (plants that have died/near death, got their main stems broken off, etc.) - Mondays are usually good because the weekend traffic has wreaked its havoc. (Tuesday this week might be good, because of the holiday...)

Empty the pots in your compost heap, wash 'em up and you're good to go, and your compost got a boost, too!

I bought one hundred used gallon pots for 10 cents each from
Rare Earth nursery last year. They are on Hwy 307 (Dean Forest rd) in Savannah. If you are driving to Savannah on I 16 get off on the exit after I 95, turn left and you will find it on the right side in a curve.
They do landscaping and have lots of used pots, probably other sizes too, I just never asked.

If you are near any new housing developments, try to keep an eye out for the landscaping crews. They will have tons of pots, and will usually welcome an opportunity to skip going to the dump and paying a fee to discard them. You might get a few plants in the bargain, because most of them will have a few extras, and these just get tossed when the job is done.

Ask landscapers for sure. My ex-son-in-law has a lawn care business and does some landscaping. He gives me hundreds when I think to ask for them. I think he just throws them away eventually.

thanks for all the info. i had forgot all about rare earth painted lady. i willin savannah friday. will checkit out.

Just for fun..., here's a related annecdote.

So, about two weeks ago I'm walking home from the grocery store and see a work crew landscaping a large traffic island at an intersection. Their trucks are clearly labled NYC Dept of Parks.

I wander over and ask if I could have any of the dozens of used pots piled on the ground. A fellow growls that "it's against the law to give them to you."

Well, I say, innocently, I'd be glad to buy you guys a soda or coffee, and I just need half a dozen or so.

"Hey, are you trying to bribe us?" The guy reaches for his cell phone. "I'm calling this in!"

I shrug and wander away, resigning myself to "just another typical NYC encounter."

The next morning I'm going back to the store, having forgotten milk for the morning coffee, and there are the dozens and dozens of pots strewn around on the traffic island where the crew had left them after finishing their planting.

Adam.

Adam, I would have definitely stopped and picked them up. If you were confronted about it, you could have just said that all that litter strewn about looked really bad, so you were cleaning it up. Obviously, it was just litter and not something they held to have any value, or they wouldn't have left it there.

I hope you picked them up. I definitely would have. Maybe they left them there for you or anyone else to pick up.

LOL ~ I wonder how many other brave people had asked them that question? Maybe they were just grumpy or maybe they were tired of the same question? Nice that they left them for whomever did want them. I'm assuming they left them on purpose? Life is so strange sometimes and rules can be stupid, sometimes, too. Maybe they knew those pots would be in the trash and knowing that and the rule, they just left them.

This is a typical NYC story, folks: pointless low~level suspicion coupled with absurdity.

After all, if it was "illegal" for them to give me the pots, why did they leave them strewn around like garbage for the wind to blow into the street?

Oh, by the way, I'm now the proud owner of 87 one~gallon plastic pots clearly labled: New York City Department of Parks.

Adam.

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Beautiful bureaucracy bounty!

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LOL ~ be careful where you use these then, Adam! Your neighbors or other spying these with the label of New York City Department of Parks might think you stole what you grow in them!

Hey, since JCF is looking for some cheap garden items, maybe you could send them to her to avoid any inadvertent rumors by unkindly neighbors :)

This message was edited Wednesday, May 28th 8:29 PM

ROTF Adam! I would have taken them too! Maybe a bit of nail polish remover will clean them up?

You should have told them you would charge them to haul off the garbage!

I caught my landscaper here today at the condos and asked him if he had pots left when he did the landscaping and what he did with them. He said they throw them away so I asked him to bring me some and he said he would in the next week or so because he has a big landscaping job coming up :)