Where do you get your large containers? My brugs are so root bound and I need some really large containers cheap....
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Waiting for suggestions too. Once you get above 5 gal they really are hard to find and expensive too.
I've spent a forture at Home Depot buying white 20" - 24" pots this year. Potting soil is not cheap either. I have ordered other gardening materials from A.M. Leonard, but not pots. They have a large selection and I was tempted to buy them. I didn't because last summer I fried a number of my potted plants' roots. All were in black or dark green pots. Even with daily summer watering, the roots got too hot (It's still too hot. The thermometer hit 105ºF today).The plants looke fine when I put them in the greenhouse, but they didn't make it out of dormancy. The company is dependable and has a wide selection of items. Large pots, regardless what they are made of, are expensive.
I have seen some cheap tubs (Ones with rope handles) at Walmart. They come in a variety of colors. I bought 2 but found they didn't stand up to the UV light. They were goners by the second summer.
BettyDee are you holding yours over the winter in those Walmart muck buckets? Those take up a ton of room. Have you seen Monikas book? She tells how to put them in 5 gallon pots with 2 inch holes all around them and then in the fall for holding over the winter, taking them out and putting them in plastic bags.
Maybe this won't work for yours? Do you put them in dormancy over the winter or do you keep them growing? I have a couple in the muck buckets but I do not plan on keeping them in there all winter. They are in the 5 gallon pots with holes.
Jeanette
I picked up a ton of 5+ gallon containers from a local nursery. They had been accepting them for recycling and were out where anyone who wanted them could just take them. Any nurseries in your area doing that? They didn't mind especially when most people then bought potting soil to fill them with. And no kidding about the potting soil not being cheap. I might just get a truckload delivered to my house next spring. When I went out shopping for larger containers ( >15gal) and found that Home Depot had the cheapest prices of anywhere.