There was the scene in Perfect Days, where the protagonist sees a small plant, so he opens his wallet to get a some paper out of it. He unfolds it and it turns out to be a paper flower pot that he used to take the plant home.

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Jesus_666 20 points 14 days ago

And if you need one you can check the nearest graveyard. People tend to show up with flowers, plant them, and then throw away the pots. I could literally get several dozen plastic flower pots from the trash cans at my local graveyard whenever I want. There's not even anything besides flower pots and soil bags in there.

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django 3 points 14 days ago

Why are you so wise? Do you have more tips like this one?

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Jesus_666 3 points 14 days ago

I'm not much of a gardener but I do have a frugal girlfriend who loves gardening.

What I can say is that sansevieria make decent gifts for people who are bad at plants; they don't really care much about getting too much or too little water or light. So they're great for people who forget to water their plants three weeks in a row and then water daily for a week because they keep forgetting they just watered the day before. (I'm speaking from first-hand experience here...)

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Honytawk 3 points 13 days ago

If you need fertilizer, you can go to the same graveyard and dig up the bones of someone's grandma. They have plenty anyway.

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JohnnyEnzyme 3 points 14 days ago

Practical origami, very nice!

Interesting how he's not just using them for a temp purpose, but seemingly using a bunch of them to grow parsnip seedlings. Would newspaper really stand up to repeated waterings, though?

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DespairSquid 5 points 14 days ago

Paper doesn't degrade nearly as fast as you’d think, especially if its just damp and you aren’t putting pressure on it causing it to tear.

I used to use single sheets of newspaper to line my veg garden as weed barrier and they lasted an entire season no problem. I stopped because it’s hard to get newspaper now, and I don’t want to use colored ink pages.

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JohnnyEnzyme 3 points 14 days ago

Thanks for explaining. I still see newspaper in the supermarket.

Sadly, that reminds me that the bi-weekly, independent 'current happenings'-type paper disappeared around 10yrs ago. And this is a major Midwestern city, where it used to be quite popular.

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VerdeVivo 0 points 14 days ago

Using them for parsnip seedlings is a clever way to give those folded pots a longer life.

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JohnnyEnzyme 0 points 13 days ago

Oh?

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VerdeVivo 0 points 13 days ago

@JohnnyEnzyme Wishing you a lovely day. I need a little more context to answer that well. Could you tell me a bit more?

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pulsewidth 12 points 14 days ago

I take them back to the garden center where they supposedly get reused. Broken terracotta ones get put around my garden as they make awesome spider and lizard homes. Just, like.. Don't fall on them.

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JohnnyEnzyme 7 points 14 days ago

they make awesome spider and lizard homes.

I love it!

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athairmor 3 points 14 days ago

We give them to nature orgs and government run projects that raise and sell native plants. They definitely reuse them.

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pulsewidth 3 points 14 days ago

Nice, there's a place like that which I visit one a year. I'll see if they'll take them next time.

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username_1 10 points 14 days ago

Don't think that throwing them into a volcano is such a great idea.

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oxysis 3 points 14 days ago

Then how else am I supposed to appease both the volcano and plants goddesses at the same time?

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BooBees 1 point 14 days ago

Yeah, why not just send the giant eagles to throw them in the volcano

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Rhaedas 4 points 14 days ago

The eagles don't meddle in the trivial doings of mortals. And they don't collect your garbage.

But Bilbo could at least stack them like a sane hobbit.

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LovableSidekick 1 point 14 days ago

The eagles don’t meddle in the trivial doings of mortals.

They did when Gandalf asked them to. All we're talking about is a different flight plan.

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Rhaedas 1 point 13 days ago

In the Ring issue, while mortals had become involved, in the grand scope of it all it was a higher beings' matter. Sauron trying to dominate Middle Earth was clearly off the intended path, and Eru Ilúvatar even had to step in at the last minute to ensure success, which was highly unusual. Of course the eagles would help with part of that if a Maiar asked them.

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Formfiller 7 points 14 days ago

I feel targeted

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altphoto 4 points 14 days ago

Lemmy is listening to our recent Amazon purchases.

I thought I needed 3 little ones. It turned out we needed like 20. So a little better.

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Tikiporch 7 points 14 days ago

This but also a six foot tall stack of 32oz Greek yogurt tubs.

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gibmiser 2 points 14 days ago

More like 30x

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LovableSidekick 2 points 14 days ago

PETCO and probably other pet stores have a giant cat litter station where you can refill your own container and just pay for the contents.

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PumaStoleMyBluff 1 point 14 days ago

All of mine are currently full of raspberries, so it pays off!

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NihilsineNefas 6 points 14 days ago

How dare you say something so true

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ToiletFlushShowerScream 6 points 14 days ago

My first laugh of the work week. Thank you.

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beccaboben 4 points 13 days ago

Stop looking in my shed!!

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TheTechnician27 4 points 14 days ago

Pick up a sprouted herb for a couple bucks at a hardware store, plant it in one of the pots, and give it to a friend. ^_^ (or grow one from a cutting if you can)

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Drusas 3 points 14 days ago

But then you have the pot the herb came in.

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TheTechnician27 3 points 14 days ago

Y'all are hoarding those pots?

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frongt 2 points 14 days ago

Yeah, because they're free, and I do a lot of propagating. Why wouldn't I use them?

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Tikiporch 1 point 14 days ago

See: OP's meme.

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dkppunk 1 point 14 days ago

The only ones I don’t hoard are the ones that are basically clear plastic cups, everything else goes on a shelf in my garage to use for seedlings until they start falling apart. Needless to say, I have a lot of pots 😬

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20cello 4 points 14 days ago

I take them back to the nursery where I buy the seedlings,I also take the multiple ones back

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MehBlah 3 points 14 days ago

I keep all kinds of stuff that I use as planters. Goes in a box in the storage building out back.

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MycelialMass 3 points 14 days ago

Im married to Bilbo and I love it

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sirico 2 points 14 days ago

Could also include random things that could be pots even though you already have a shed full of 9cm's

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Ephera 1 point 14 days ago

I'm glad that I can't stand plastic, so I've been getting rid of these pretty quickly...

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JohnnyEnzyme 3 points 14 days ago

Is there some concern with plastic affecting the plants?

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Ephera 3 points 14 days ago

It's not that rational of a position. I mainly just think that plastic looks and feels tacky as hell.

I mean, I am also trying to reduce plastic items in my household in general, because it's just less potential sources of microplastics, but I have no idea, if these pots would even give off any microplastics. They don't typically get abraded, at least.

I guess, on the flipside though, non-plastic pots can be good for plants. For example, if you have a plant which struggles in moist soil, then a terracotta pot can help to move that moisture out.

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JohnnyEnzyme 2 points 14 days ago

Okay, I see.

terrecotta pot

Yeah, I probably need to do that with a couple Jade cuttings I just bought, as I understand that residual moisture in the root area is bad news for them. Also, I evidently need to swap out the soil with a courser mix, possibly even just small pebbles.

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frongt 1 point 14 days ago

They'll certainly shed microplastics, but it's not really a household environmental source concern. The main pathway is through eating or drinking, so if you had edible plants in plastic pots then maybe. But it's still not nearly as much as plastic food containers, especially if you're using them for prep, or the worst, reheating food in the microwave in plastic.

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