The next time you're in a kitchen equipment store, take a hard look at containers ... especially those with little holes -- strainers and the like. They could be just the thing for your garden ... and perhaps a great, inexpensive, long-lasting container for -- well, big tropicals, flowering annuals, and maybe even vegetables, depending on the container's size.
A recent New York Times article, (read it here), notes that landscape architect Ken Smith often visits kitchen supply stores to look for garden containers, and finds them in other unexpected places as well.
Smith thinks a lot of garden containers are just plain boring, so he's always on the lookout for something unusual. He says that if you put plants in a wagon, you can easily wheel them around into sun or shade, or even bring the wagon inside if the weather turns too cold for them.
So let your imagination take wing!
(photos: www.bari.com, www.farmtek.com)
Great read. I wish I could write better. I can barely write a shopping list.
Posted by: Roy Ewing | April 27, 2009 at 07:59 AM