Any feed store should have them. I bought a few, took them home water them wirh love and they started living up, just hat how people are so in a hurry to throw stuff out. TennesseeTuxedo CT Supporter CT Supporter Joined Jul 9, 2011 Messages 18,962 I will gladly come pick them up . Put them on craigslist. Also, NEVER pay for boxes! other things are plastic bags with snaps like sheets I just bought, ribbons, foam from packages, etc. Works for me. Way to go! The height is 16 inches, so I filled them with soil and planted longer-type carrots there that I cant plant in the bed, since my soil is heavy with lots of clay. I reluctantly drove to Staples to buy some. I am in need of your empty cattle mineral tubs free or will purchase at good price. Whoa! I will definitely look into that and Lowes as well. Put the sprouts in the paste and plant. Compared to other European countries the U.K. was relatively late with its recycling systems and has a lot more todo but I understand the USA is very poor when it comes to this and reducing waste. Do have lids for tubs. If any adhesive is left, use orange oil to remove it. I am doing compost on the balcony so I dont buy any healthy soil. We (hubby and I) just had a conversation about thta yesterday. Not sure what Ill do with all of those, but I will be giving some away to friends. Our Lowes and Walmart still have a recycle area of pots and flats. Let it dry completely then stuff it with crinkled up newspaper. You can find plants and seeds on craigslist also. If we have any unusable, it goes to the animals, so check with gleaners for some chicken chow. Required fields are marked *. Ask your local farmers if they have any empty mineral buckets (more like a tub). Sure enough, Home Depot was selling the common black plastic pots for almost $10. Makes great planters and storage. Pickle juice is very acidic. seemed to work well. How to participate? Ive gotten free pots from new housing developments after the landscaper has finished and left the pots behind with the trash. Too bad I dont have a car (I walk everywhere or take the bus) or I would have gotten lots more!! I am looking for 20-30 of them. Previously just wrote a comment on free buckets. Although I have come to the conclusion it doesnt hurt to ask, they normally will say yes, and who cares what they think because they dont know me. It never hurts to ask! Seriously he goes through a lot of those 2-3 gallon pots and used to throw them away. If you need to start again use another corner. why pay anything for pots when you can get them free that is if you know someone that has horses or cows. Panera bread pickle buckets with coffee grounds in them. You can order any size box you want t from the postal service.they mail them free to you also any size paper envelopes you need for mailing out. Empty mineral tubs for tree plantings and all kinds of uses | Sheldon, ND Wet newspapers and leave a couple of days. (roughly 30 gallon) size. I checked once and left empty handed. I scored over 200 5 gallon pots and several dozen 1 gallon containers as well. Contact us postal service order and they will mail to you free. You can wash the container out with bleach, but the pickle smell remains. After a couple of weeks of looking. Its YOU! Worked for me. He was telling me just come look. How to remove labels off buckets and jars. Warm hair dryer. They are food grade so I did not have to worry about any paint or other hazardous chemicals. They are on a cart near the back in our store. I am a volunteer Gleaner for many years, but have been a Gleaner since before i could walk. But I wanted to keep planting, and needed to add a bed or two in the yard, which is sloped. I also scored over 2000 bricks for garden paths and a truckload of rabbit manure to toss in the compost pile. When I was growing up, there was a very dear neighbor who would shop at a local grocery store and the produce dept. It works really well! But lately they moved their dumpster, and I havent been able to get any more plants. There were 11 left so I asked if they would mark them down more if I took all 11. LOL, I call but the home depot store on the OR state border with Wa state which said they had no program like that then called the Wa state store which told me they did but the pot go back to the vender because there plants flowers and tree are vender item and not theres so to speak. 2,000 bricks..the possibilities are just running through my head! We can get the black pots that you are talking about from our local garden centers for about $1 per pot. Wilco. Tarson Pools & Spas | The leaders in Swimming Pools, Spas, Billiards I am looking for the larger, 200 lb. 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Any farm store would have it. The boxes were just the right size for me to be able to move on my own. They might even help you load it up. Yes I have. My husband works for Lowes (we dont say Home Depot in our house) and the deals he gets would make your heart swoon! Gold, indeed! I used some in my rose garden 10 years ago and it is still working. Livestock Protein & Minerals at Tractor Supply Co. I should check Albies for buckets! I just did the same thing here at my college, I noticed the gardener had place a bunch of the black plastics around as place holders but he also had many more standing by. When you take it out, pickle smell will be gone. My grandmother showed me this. No luck. (sigh) One of the few things I miss about the States. On the forest path was a mama deer and her two fawns. The key is to wet them. Im getting ready to make some trellises out of wire mesh and rebar, but before I spend money on them, Im going to scope out construction sites and see what I can get for free. I am sad to say that most grocers no longer give away old produce due to the chance of illness/lawsuits. On the way there I passed by a man who was carrying a black 5 gallon plastic pot. Make offer I probably have 40 or 50 of them To put an ad into your Watch List, please Sign In or Create an Account . So Ive never stopped reading gardening books. Works like a charm on price stickers as well as removing black marker from things you buy at a resale shop. We do have some drum 1.06 Acres Commercial Corner lot. The cardboard is twice as thick as a regular box. In fact the one I get mine from the owner uses them himself to plant his tomatoes in. scrub old coffee grounds through out the container let sit then fill with water and sit over night. This entry was posted My better half scored 15 yellow cat litter buckets on the road side. You can either nurse the plant back or toss/compost it and keep the pot. Carrot roots wont form a new carrot Lift a corner and peel carefully. The seeds do start up, then I put some soil over that and give the plants added nutrients. I would love to find an opportunity to provide these to someone who needs them. Horse Feeding Tools & Accessories Shop All. That might have been heart burn. I consider myself extremely lucky to have a boyfriend who owns his own landscaping business; if only for the black plastic pots LOL !! Home Depot does NOT. If you have landscaping friends, you might be able to score larger pots from trees like palms, etc. On the way there I passed by a man who was carrying a black 5 gallon plastic pot . Needed for garden raised bed project. Thanks and Happy Gardening! We planted shrubs a few years ago and kept the pots and cut the bottoms off and use them around newly potted garden plants till they are established good and to help keep rabbits away from them. Typically when plant get wimpy looking they are thrown out. Low and behold I found two very big bags. As far as open bags of soil, fertilizer, mulch etc, we give a % of based on the amount gone. Any solutions? Horse Feeding Tools & Accessories Shop All. Good info thanks for sharing like you I refuse to pay for something like a plastic pot, just silly if you ask me. Hello, Holly! Thanks for this tip; I thought I was a cheapskate for buying buckets from Dollar Tree and turning them into plant pots. Awesome freebies Mavis! Two words for any and all labels: GOO GONE! We get 30 a month. Roses can be done the same way. Hoping that Id find a store not too far away, I called the Greenwood, Indiana store to ask. Now its based on home much is out of the bag. it works as well or better then black plastic or the commercial weed barrier. I think these are better than raised beds because they are about 24 high and you can reach the center without having to bend over or stretch. If someone has already scored all the frosting buckets at the local bakery, try the local pub for pickle buckets. They are made of excellent material and I really think they can somehow be "repurposed". That was an awesome find. I believe my mistake on that episode was not getting their manager. So my neighbor suggested getting free concrete blocks to build a wall on the sloped side. PS- If any one is near me [ in the Hudson Valley of NY State] I have PLENTY of Posts to share.. For my garden paths I pick up the plastic cover sheeting that comes with the bundles of lumber at HD and use it as a weed barrier HD just throws the stuff in the trash. Room for at least 5 more RVs. Where do you get those large galvanized steel troughs? Dozens of mineral tubs for many uses | Sheldon, ND Just ask & you can get all you need. THE IMPORTANT THING TO KEEP IN MIND IS THAT THESE SHOPS WILL BE TOSSING THESE OUT IN LATE SPRING OR EARLY SUMMER [ WHICH IS PASSED THE TIME YOU MAY NEED THEM] SO I ALWAYS GO A GET THEM AND THEN HAVE THEM TO USE FOR THE NEXT YEAR. double bust. One day I went to see what Starbucks had near their dumpster, and saw a lady with the Ann Taylor outlet unpacking merchandise in their office near the back door, which was open. I scored many buckets at the large office complex I work in. And except for two plants I bought cheap last summer, even the plants are recycled people who moved and dumped them in the trash, poor things , Oh and re recycling, I also get Burlap bags from a nearby coffee roaster and he gave me sturdy plastic bags for my grocery shopping. Lowes informed me this weekend that they send pots back to the growers for credit or something like that. I was thrilled that they would not go into the land fill and I got something for free that many people throw out. Just go ask for the project manager and tell them youd like to haul away their scrap for them. As I was waiting for my order to be processed, I headed over to the flower section to see if there was anything I was interested in. So in stealth like fashion I quickly scooped up all the buckets I could carry {I didnt want to leave the pots unattended to look for a cart} and headed over to the cashier stand. Id take the tops off, remove the rubber gasket in the lid and bring that inside, then leave the buckets and lids exposed to the elements for a couple months. Regardless of what people think, USPS is NOT Federally funded, they DO NOT receive Tax dollars. Ive brought them up to the cashier, wanting to know the price and pointing out the fact the pot has been damaged. A cereal box! Ive found that stores like Krogers will deep cut the price on their plants after they become unsellable. I used 10 5-gallon pots to neatly stack all the branches I pruned off my fruit trees, which are now stored neatly in the shed. I go behind the local store and get all the 2 gallon pots ( without drain holes ) that they sell cut flowers in. Learn how your comment data is processed. In addition to inground pools, aboveground pools, spas and hot tubs, Cannon Pools also has a full line of swimming pool and spa products at your disposal. That should do it. Recycle Used Tubs. charge $6 $7 for a medium size box?? If you have any that you would like to get rid of call or text Tracy. so next time you are the grocery store. The last few times I moved my home and work/office, I got all the boxes I needed there. Ya know what you could use in a pinch, if you dont need anything *too* strong? Here in the U.K. if items that are recyclable are found in your rubbish bin (trash) you can be fined. Its been on my porch all winter but will become mulch for our raised beds this spring. Up to 2 Adults. .use some salt and some dishwashing liquid and waterscrub, rinse real good and. Im in Florida. You only need a bit and minimal elbow grease. I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. coffee grounds. If you are anywhere near northern IL and would like to sell some of these please contact me. Most often, Ive been given the pot for free, (this has happened half a dozen times). All the same size and extremely strong with hand holes, there is hole in top and bottom of each box but sacrifice a damaged box to cover these. More as the horses empty them. But they closed it after someone fell and sued! I recycle it all and I dont have to go out and buy those same things most people put in the trash and then go out and buy it again, If you buy plants at lowes save the containers and reuse them. Makes excellent storage Tubs or Planters. Here are just a few of my favorites, narrowing this list down was tough! I save large prescription bottles and was having an awful time with the labels. A guy called and said if I would come get them I could have them. I am looking for the larger, 200 lb. Lowes also recycles pots. Going to figure something out maybe empty my trunk so I can put them in there and tie the trunk shut? . I just go to Walmart after 11pm and all the stockers let me have whatever I want. In plus, I collect the wood boxes from wine area from shops. Im using them to repack things I have stored in the basement, which Ive been cleaning out. I know, cuz I worked for such places for years! I just found a cheaper way to remove labels than GooGone and the like. Mineral Lick Tubs Protein Tubs | Specialty Tubs | More Products Our line of mineral tubs is designed for farm animals that need a free-choice mineral supplement to assure they are getting the proper levels and ratios of all of the essential minerals needed for health, growth, and reproduction. I asked if i could have it, and was told no, it had to be put into the dumpster that stayed locked! Please keep in mind that those free boxes on the USPS site are also considered a federal offense if they not used for shipping through USPS. Gardening books hold kind of a special place in my heart. Some of us work hard at saving money, some of us work hard at making money, some of us work hard at saving money and making money. I put my seeds right into the cardboard and keep it moist. Great score! He probably has a very strong work ethic and is ambitious, he is probably very busy spending much of his time at working very hard to support his family, from your description it sounds like he is doing very well at his job. My husband asked if he could have them for a planter he was building for me. My biggest and best score was when the restaurant in our bldg closedi got their planter boxes, wooden crates, a big basket i store my garden tools in and two small tables all for FREE! I had picked up a Gardenia at less than half price simply because the leaves had somewhat withered due to lack of watering. I have been very lucky getting useful items by driving to the back of small shopping centers. 7:30AM 5:00PM WeekdaysClosed: Saturday & Sunday, 2105 Industrial Park Road Van Buren, AR 72956, 2105 Industrial Park Road, Van Buren, AR 72956, Seed & Sow Agricultural Lifestyle Magazine, Farmers Coop Service Station Van Buren, AR, Farmers Coop Corporate Office Van Buren, AR, Farmers Coop Mena, AR (Southwest Outdoor Center), Spring Cattle Mineral Meeting Van Buren. I bought mine at Wilco. You can also try WD40.
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