Vince bought these stacking/connecting pots at Aldi. You can read more about them here. I suppose they’re kinda cool and might be pretty for flowers that hang over the sides a bit but for anything growing upright, if you stack them, you’re blocking a good bit of your growing space . . or that’s how I see it.
For lettuce and chard, I don’t need a lot of root space and didn’t want to waste garden soil so I filled the pots about 1/3 up with rocks.
The one on the left has lettuce and the one on the right has perpetual spinach/chard. We grow that chard in the keyhole garden in Texas a couple of years ago and it produced like crazy. We’ll see how it does in the small pots. I had the seeds so there was no reason not to try it.
We’ll keep it out when the weather is good and bring it all in on cold days/nights and see what happens.
Nelle Coursey says
Love these pots!!
Inka from Germany says
They are perfect for Strawberries.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
That’s what I was thinking too but I have a large strawberry patch already.
Nancy H says
I have put things like packing peanuts in the bottom of pots with a layer of black paper over them to fill them a little and keep them lighter to lift and carry. And lets face it I always have packing material around here cause I hate to just throw it out.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I try to use organic materials as much as possible and we have lots of rocks – small rocks, medium rocks, giant rocks, so I almost always will use rocks. Even in Texas, I scooped up gravel from the driveway when I needed to partially fill pots, though Vince would probably tell me that garden dirt in a bag is less expensive that driveway rocks delvered.