Amateur Gardening

The plastic conundrum

lastic is too easy to use. There, I said it. You can drop a plastic plant pot and it will usually survive. I have accidentally buried several, I have flattened them with my big feet, backside and on one occasion, my car. I drove for over a mile thinking the exhaust had come off only to pull over and find an orange pot wedged under the car, sadly minus the clematis it originally held. But then there was the time I dropped a large terracotta pot in a house move. That was 14 years ago, and the memory still

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