On 2023-01-14, Michael Trew wrote:
> On 1/13/2023 11:59, fos@sdf.org wrote:
>> i was thinking
>> about getting some nice 15 inch heavy glazed ceramic pots, but dayum,
>> they're $100 each. now i gotta decide if there's pros and cons to resin
>> vs ceramic pots.
> Shop second hand stores, flea markets, etc. I work at the local antique
> mall, and some dealers pick up those big ceramic pots at auction, and
> sell them really cheap in my neck of the woods. I've picked them up for
> well under $20/ea. sometimes.
i'm not going anywhere near an antique mall with my wife who gets to
decide what style and color pots she wants. last time i was at one, in
Salamanca NY, she dragged me around in there for 4 hours. it was
torture. i volunteered to go to the casino so she could browse around to
her hearts content but she was having none of that. so no. just no antique
malls. lol
there is a giant flea market in a suburb of Buffalo, we will take a look
there. thanks for the idea.
>> in the mean time, will just keep putting coffee grounds and used loose
>> tea in the flower barrels and walking kitchen scraps back to the frozen
>> compost piles.
> That's what I really need to get on doing. I used to keep coffee
> grounds, egg shells, etc... but I hardly think of it, now. I'd like to
> fasten a rain barrel on the corner of my house nearest the garden, also.
we were putting the grounds and tea in the compost. my wife started
talking about how her late grandmother was quite the green thumb and
would be quite proud of what we've been doing. she said her grandmother
always put the coffee grounds in the flower pots. i have 4 half whisky
barrels we use for annual flowers, that's where we're putting the tea
and coffee grounds now. it was a duh moment for me lol.
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