Article: Five full months of garden exuberance. (Wanda Morken's garden; includes related article on year-round schedule keeps the flowers coming)

Article: LOTS AND LOTS OF THOSE PLASTIC POTS
Roanoke Times & World News;  June 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... gardening world - mountains of nonrecyclable plastic pots. It's a landfill full, brought to ... customers, and anyone else, to return plastic pots and trays. They sterilize them and ... ideas. She has a recipe for weathering plastic pots that I'll try on some of the bigger ...

Article: HEALTHY PLANTS CAN GROW IN CLAY, PLASTIC POTS.(AT ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  February 20, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... plants can be grown in either clay or plastic pots. Unglazed clay pots lose moisture through ... must be watered more frequently than plastic pots the same size. This may be important ... life as best you can. Both clay and plastic pots should have drainage holes. Clay pots ...

Article: Quick change for those homely black plastic pots. ...
Sunset;  July 1, 1991 ;     575 words ... ... familiar l-, 2-, and 5-gallon black plastic pots that hold flowers and shrubs at nurseries ... are sized to fit around those humble plastic pots. Although they look like soil-filled ... bloom. And instead of throwing away the plastic pots at the end of the season, you can recycle ...

Article: PLASTIC POTS CREATE A MOUNTAIN OF WASTE - BUT THERE ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... now recycles more than 15 million pounds of plastic twine, plastic pots and similar materials each year. "Agri-Plas is the only ... trained both English- and Spanish-speaking staff to sort plastic pots by material type. "You can't tell by looking whether ...

Article: gardening; the dirt; Got plastic pots? Recycle ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  May 27, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Gardening is green, but garden waste is not. Horticultural plastic pots take up a lot of space in landfills and don't readily decompose ... trays and hanging baskets, with metal hangers removed. Only plastic pots, trays and baskets will be accepted; no clay pots or household ...

Article: Rethink your planting plans: ; Expert says plastic ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  July 31, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... biggest impact during the past years is the plastic pot. "Plastic pots mean little shock to plants resulting from transplanting ... huge selection of annuals, perennials, trees and shrubs in plastic pots." Viette reasons that if summer planting were not possible ...

Article: Canned foods: convenience driven new formats such as ...
Grocer;  December 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... microwaveable Heinz baked beans. The beans are available in snacking plastic pots that can be placed directly into the microwave. The past ... suppliers introducing smaller and more convenient portion sizes. Plastic pots hold the added advantage of allowing consumers to see the ...