Not to feed into your plant buying addiction, but did you know that you're actually getting a bonus? Those plastic pots they ...

Instead of throwing away those plastic nursery pots your plants come in, discover some creative and useful ways to repurpose them around your garden.

Grow from Seed Plastic pots are much more difficult to avoid if you buy in plants from garden centers or plant nurseries, most of which will not have made the move away from plastic pots.

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Some Long Island nurseries and big-box stores are offering an eco-friendly solution. They are offering to recycle the containers, keeping them out of landfills and repurposing them for other uses.

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Old plastic water bottles can find new lives in your garden and rid you of a major summer nuisance.

Meijer said customers are encouraged to drop off the plastic flowerpots and trays at any of its garden centers, even if the flowers or plants were bought elsewhere.

Improvements in pot technology, using plastic polythene making them lighter and easier to transport, and the acceptance of container-grown plants led to a wave of garden centres, often converted ...

Your local garden center might also accept them too. So on the next run to get more plants, bring along your unwanted stash of plastic pots. What do you think so far? Be the first to post a comment.

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