Plastics and gardening wouldn’t seem the most obvious of bedfellows, but they are as entwined as bricks and mortar — an unbreakable reliance. Plastic touches every practice of gardening craft. The same holds true in other areas of our lives, but in the garden it’s more extreme, more rampant and out of control.
Plastics took over the horticultural industry at the end of World War II and we never looked back; they were cheap, reliable (too reliable, in fact!), lightweight and customizable. Nothing could compete. But as we reach a new epoch to the post-war years, the impact of this “material of
