Where to Recycle Plastic Nursery Containers and or Pots.
This article is really about, why are plants so dag blamed expensive?
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Do you have a big pile of nursery containers behind your shed that you’d like to get rid of, but you don’t want to put them in the landfill? I’ll show an excellent way to see that those containers get recycled in the most effective way. I’ll show you where you can recycle plastic nursery containers and or pots, whatever you call them.
But first, think about this.
Should you recycle them or give them to somebody that can re-use them?
Here’s my take on this and of course I tend to think about things differently than people who are lot smarter than I am. You see, by not being quite as smart as the “real smarty pants” types I like to think I was given an extra serving of good old fashioned common sense. And this is what I mean by that.
I realize that recycling is a good thing and a noble cause. However, in many ways it’s not very efficient and in some ways not so “earth friendly”. Think about this. When you recycle a plastic nursery container you have to take it to a recycling center where it is picked up in a big truck, taken to a huge facility where the plastics and other material are sorted. The plastic is ground down into small pieces, then melted down, then turned into a raw product, probably plastic pellets. Those plastic pellets are sold and possibly sold again then they eventually end up at a manufacturing facility. Each time they are sold they are probably moved from warehouse to warehouse by truck or train, or both.
Once at the manufacturing facility the plastic pellets are melted down and formed into a new product. Finally! The plastic is re-used.
But . . .
How much energy has been used to truck around the used plastic, then more energy is used to sort the plastic on big conveyors etc., then more energy is used to melt the plastic, then more energy is used to turn the molten plastic into raw pellets. Then it takes more energy to move the pellets from warehouse to warehouse and more energy to melt the pellets and make the new thing in the end.
That’s a lot of energy being used to recycle anything, let alone a plastic nursery container.
Why not just give the plastic nursery container or pot to somebody that can re-use it rather than recycle it?
Sure it may eventually end up in landfill or a recycling center but each time it gets re-used reduces the number of new containers that have to be put into circulation. Less new containers going into circulation is a huge amount of energy that is not being used. We are saving energy on the manufacturing end and we are saving energy on the recycling end.
Which makes more sense?
Okay, here it comes, the big wrench that gets thrown into the works that knocks three cogs off the wheel!
You may or may not have noticed that today nursery containers come in a variety of fancy colors and on the side of those containers there are words. Yes, words! These colored nursery containers are called “branded pots”. In other words they are imprinted with a brand name. This is a new trend in the nursery industry and it’s purpose is to make sure that the company behind the brand is collecting the royalties from the plant that goes into those branded pots.
It’s complicated, but it has to do with patented plants. Today, all of a sudden we are seeing a huge surge of patented plants being put on the market. That’s good for the patent holder but a real pain in the back side for growers and plant retailers. For you as a consumer? You have to pay more for the plants that you buy.
Why?
Because the grower who wants to propagate a patented plant must become licensed to grow that particular plant and pay a royalty on each plant that he grows and sells. The royalties are not a lot of money, usually no more than one dollar per plant. But . . . get this, now many of these plant patent owners are requiring the grower to buy those fancy, colored, branded, nursery containers to put the plant in. That’s right, the plant has to go into a particular container! You can’t put it in just a regular black nursery container.
This creates a problem. Where can a person find a lime green container that says “xyz” on the side of it? Only one place of course, from the plant patent holder. So now you have to buy the container from the plant patent holder and of course it costs money to ship 10,000 plastic nursery containers any distance, let alone a long distance.
So that means that the grower can no longer shop for the best price on nursery containers and that also means that the grower can no longer buy those nursery containers “down the road” like he does for all of his non patented plants. He only has one place where he or she can buy those “lime green” containers. I would not like being in that position at all.
Does this sound complicated, confusing and frustrating? It should, because it is.
Wanna raise a growers blood pressure? Just ask about “the colored pot” debacle. Watch what happens. I did this recently on a nursery tour and I thought I was going to get tossed off the wagon! Seriously. I was there with a number of our backyard growers and I asked “the” question. It clearly was a sore subject!
Okay, now let’s make this even more stupid and complicated.
Somebody suggested to me a few days ago that I cannot “re-use” a branded nursery container. If I have one of those white, pink, or lime green nursery containers, a used one, I cannot use it to pot up a Lynnwood Gold Forsythia which is not patented and has been around forever.
What????
Who says I can’t? If I go to the xyz store and buy a plant in a lime green container and pay for it with my money at the cash register, I do believe that I am the rightful owner of that plant and the container it came in. I am also the proud owner of the soil in the container. I bought the whole shebang lock stock and barrel. It’s now my property and I should be able to do with it as I please as long as I don’t break any laws.
Like I said, this is complicated and you the consumer are paying for this fiasco. When you buy one of these plants you are paying extra because of the headaches involved in bringing this plant to you. Growers have told me that if they sell one of these branded plants they are adding as much as $2.50 to the price of the plant because of the extras costs that they incur in growing and selling the plant. That means that you are paying as much as $5.00 extra per plant because if a retailer has to pay more for the plant wholesale they are going to base their markup, which is usually 100% on the price they pay.
So . . . how do you, the consumer, save money on plants? You buy them from one of our Backyard Growers. We have very little overhead, we can sell for considerably less.
Where can take your used nursery containers to be re-used and not recycled? Most of our Backyard Growers would be happy to accept them. Even the pretty ones. They’ll find a use for them. Probably put a plant in them. I know I will. Contact our Backyard Growers in your area and ask if they’d like some plastic nursery containers. I’m guessing they’ll be happy to hear from you.
So what does all of this patented plant and color nursery pots mean to our Backyard Growers? Nothing. Absolutely nothing! It usually plays to our advantage. Just the other day one of our growers bought out a nursery that got stuck with 350 plants in colored pots. He got them for almost nothing. He sold a bunch of them the next day! That’s how I happened to write this article about “colored pots”. Because of the deal that Brian got and made me aware of.
There are so many non patented plants that we are free to grow and sell we as Backyard Growers just steer away from most of the patented plants. The only patented plant that I grow right now is Lavender Twist Redbud. I think the royalty was one dollar and I will sell these for $75.00 to $175.00 each.
Growing and Selling Small Plants from Home is not at all Complicated. And . . . as a Backyard Grower you really are providing a service to the plant lovers in your town. They will love you for selling them nice plants at reasonable prices. Get started right now!
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Hi Mike,
Love your content and am looking forward to selling plants in the near future. I’m doing a lot of research prior to getting started and am having trouble finding an answer to a recent question that’s come up, but you’ve sort of hit on within this post.
I’ve found a person selling many branded “colored” gallon pots, never used supposedly on Facebook marketplace. Would I be able to buy these to start my backyard nursery and sell non-patented propagated plants from these said containers? I’ve found mixed answers pertaining to trademarks and branding on the pots. All I see you using is black non-branded pots, which I suspect may be my answer…
Brett,
It’s shame that these pots go to wasted but you really shouldn’t put your plants in pot that carries a brand name on the pot. Some people spray paint over the name which is probably acceptable, at least you are letting your customers know that your plant is not part of that brand. I’ll use branded pots around nursery for holding rooted cuttings etc. but not for selling plants.
Mike,
thank you for the concerns you have over these patented plants, overpriced pots and royalties. i have battling this for 15 years. There has to be a better way, but like many other things, there is just too much money being made. i have something i would like to ask you about this topic, but i would prefer you call me. Never sure who in the industry is reading!
Alan,
In our members area we battle back by making sure all of the beautiful plants in the public domain, non patented plants, never go extinct. Our job is to make sure they are always available to the public.
I have about a dozen (maybe 2 dozen) pots, 1 and 5 gallon, Bay Area, California. Re-use comes before recycle in the “Reduce, re-use, recycle” motto. I was hoping to donate them to California Native Plant Society or some other group that has people-based plant sales, but I don’t see contact info for them.
I can drive them someplace in the Peninsula or South Bay area. I assume the size makes shipping expensive to send further by any carrier?
Jan,
List them on Craig’s list, people often look there for pots.
Hey John, do you still buy pots of the sizes you listed on the 2012/09 ‘where to recycle plastic nursery containers and or pots’ by Mike’s website commentaries by you? I’m fairly new and have some that you might be interested in buying, if I knew what prices /sizes that you are willing to purchase them at and in what quantity? Please let me know. Thank you, Thanks Mike great article and I trust your advice and knowledge without hesitation.
I buy used for in quantity all sizes
I will buy your nursery containers that are in good shape (not broken or cracked) in sizes 7, 10, 15., 20, 25, 35, 45, 65 100, 200 gallons in quantity. I am near Columbia, South Carolina and I can come pick them up up to 100 miles from Columbia.
John, are you still interested in black plant pots? If so, please let me know. We have several thousand that we are looking to get rid of. We are located in Sumter SC.
What do you have I pay cash
I’m interested
John, We have several thousand black nursery pots. We are located in Charlotte, NC and must moved them off the property by the end of April. Any suggestions? They are all free.
Mary,
Just put them on Craig’s list.
I will come get them
What do you do if you don’t know the exact name of plant you want to propagate. If its patented or not. I would like to propagate a few different varieties of plants growing in my backyard. However I don’t know what they are exactly. One is a really nice lilac bush, very upright growth almost tree like in that it doesn’t put out many suckers and it has a deep very fragrant purple bloom. (I have other lilac bushes and they are inferior to this one). The other is a grape vine that has purple grapes. I put it in, and I recall that it may have been a patented variety. Lastly I have an apple tree that is magnificent and fruit is unlike any I have tried previously. Im planning on trying to get the apple identified if possible though a nursery in town that the owner specializes in apples. With all the varieties out there how do we make sure we aren’t propagating patented varieties based on misidentification? I would hate to run into problems later. Also where do you go to be inspected so that I can sell plants at say the local farmers market. I don’t even know where to start. I live in South Dakota.
Any recommendations for selling bamboo. I have a large quanitiy of plants that are 20-30 feet at maturity.
Kelly,
I can tell you this, there are places that will buy bamboo of all kinds and sizes. But if you want to be in the business, you really need to start here: http://freeplants.com/wanted.htm
An anyone no of a place to get cheap pots around anniston alabama
Mike, I am glad you are recommending reusing pots instead of recycling them, and thanks for reminding us all of the energy that recycling involves. In our area, we also have a local nonprofit organization that is affiliated with Keep America Beautiful, that buys and grows shrubs and small trees for planting in the community, and they use lots of medium sized pots for repotting plants up to a larger size, and often have lots of 1 gallon ones to give away. There are probably similar groups in different parts of the country, that could use your medium or large pots or provide you with small pots for free.
I really liked the rant about the little pots. I was just searching for what you call those darn containers, but this article got me reading through and through most of the replies. I learned a lot. Thank you!
I have a big problem with the way we sell and consume so many things today. It all seems that the system is only designed to make us spend more. I agree with all the people who say buy from a local grower and perhaps the big companies will think that branded plants were a bad idea. I doubt it though, there are enough people to just go along on anything. It’s a little like the stickers on fruit. But that’s another story and another pet peeve of mine.
Nice to meet you as it is. Now I am going to explore your site a bit.
Mike
We are a local Garden Club and use almost all recycled plant containers. You might pass on to people that most garden clubs that have yearly sales would love to have your pots so that they can sell “divide and conquer plants” to the local public. We support a school gardening program with our proceeds.
Bev Smith, Olmsted Falls, Ohio
How do you know the plant is a patented plant? Is there a list somewhere that says, this named plant is patented and if you propagate it you must pay the royalty on each plant. If the plant was in your yard for who knows how long no pot to say. I never heard of this until now. Just reading your website for ideas on containers and read about the patented plants. Just being curious. Thanks
Paula,
Patented plants are clearly marked as so on the plant tag. Plants in your landscape forever? You should not be propagating them for resale because there is no way of knowing exactly what variety they are. There are so many different varieties of plants that’s next to impossible for even experts to tell them apart. That’s why we always started with properly labeled plants. http://freeplants.com/wanted.htm
Mike, do you have Backyard Growers in the UK?
Helen,
I have a few in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and a few other countries. What’s really imporant to understand is that it doesn’t matter if there are others in your area or not. This system will work anywhere it’s just that many of the sources that I have are U.S. based and it’s not practical to ship that far. But you can’t let that stop you. You have sources in your country, you just have to track them down. http://freeplants.com/wanted.htm
To:Backyard Growers within driving distance of Sandy Oregon (half way between Portland and Mt Hood) Used black nursery containers, 3″ square through round 3 gallon. U pick up – price negotiable. For details, email jyolinder@hotmail,com.
I just read that in order to sell plants at a farmers market they require a health certificate. How can you make money if you have to buy all your soil for your plants? I live in NY state.
Kathy, this is an excellent question. But first let me start with a question to you and anybody else that buys plants. Would you be comfortable buying plants from a grower that was not meeting the standards of your state? I certainly would not. If we were not regulated, disease and insect infested plants and soil would be sold everyday. Pests from around the world would be shipped virtually everywhere and we would all be in serious trouble with pests in our yards. That’s why there are standards that we have to meet. To keep the unscrupulous, did I spell that right, growers out of the market.
Now to answer your question. It costs nothing to root a cutting. For many plants you don’t even need rooting compound to get a cutting to root, but since it costs so little to use it I usually do just to increase my success rate. So essentially the plant is as close to free as you can get. In this article we’ve talked about how to get plastic containers for free, but even if you have to buy them a one gallon might cost you 22 cents or so. Probably less if you use a smaller container like I often do. Next is the soil. You aren’t going to used a bagged potting soil that you buy in the store, actually those soils really aren’t what you want, the plants don’t do well in them. I show you how to make your own potting soil out of materials that you can buy locally. But even after you buy the materials your cost to fill a one gallon container with potting soil is less than 50 cents for sure. And I can assure you these numbers are probably high, but even using these numbers you will have less than 80 cents in a plant that you can sell easily for $4.97 to $9.97 or more. No other business that you know of has that much of a mark up on the products that they sell. That’s the beauty of what we do. http://freeplants.com/wanted.htm Thanks for asking!
Looking for some mountain laurel or rhododendron to plant here in Locust Grove, Virginia. Know any resource in the Fredericksburg area that has these plants? Thanks.
Amy, check the our Backyard Nursery page on this site. It’s highlight in this article.
Hi Mike,Just wanted to mention that not all people charging royalty is a rip.Blackberry plants or root cuttings from the University of Arkansas are only 5 or 6 cents,it goes to the University to pay for research on these fine plants.The Navaho blackberries that I started,are supposed to be the smallest,but the sweetest of all the thornless,I was shocked at the 2 inch long thumb size berries.BUT, If they tried to make me buy there pots I would tell em no thank you.
I don’t know if my recycling place ever sends their pots anywhere. They keep them in a big dumpster and I can take all I want for free whenever I’m low on #1 and #2 pots- it’s always full and waiting for me!
Where I’d this
Mike,
What is a good way to sterilize these recycled pots?
10-15%bleach in a spray hose bottle. heavy handed setting on the hose . an old 5 gal. or lger paint can to hold the pots and still get them clean. hot water/ts of dish soap/3 caps bleach,is best. staight vinegar works well [in placeof]bleach and heavy…. sprayer stream.
People should be aware that bleach will degrade many plastics, making them brittle and more likely to crack.
A strong vinegar solution will kill most everything, and is not as hard on the plastic, or the environment – or the person breathing the air while cleaning and sanitizing pots.
Viengar is also good for removing the white crusty deposits on clay pots.
Mike, I second Jim’s question. I have oodles of pots from past years but hesitate to start seeds in them without sterilizing them first.
Lindy,
Seeds should be started in a flat of sterilized (bagged) seed starting mix. Containers I just re-use. If they are out in the sun not much can stay alive in a black pot stacked in the hot sun.
Mike, good point. The sun is free too.
I don’t grow my own but have given my used pots to small local “backyard” growers for years. It only makes sense. Or I return them to the small backyard grower of Amish that I buy them from. Anything to save money and help our environment. So glad to read you article, Mike. It’s a good (and easy) thing!!
Like your rant, Mike, but you have to understand that the patents belong to Monsanto:
The Rapist of Planet Earth. These “branded” plants (maybe except for roses?)have been grown from genetically modified seeds. Careful from where you purchase your seeds. Adding a link that’s an excellent resource for choosing safe seeds.
http://www.hawkeshealth.net/community/showthread.php?t=9375
Yup,If Monsanto could get there way ,you couldnt grow anything unless you bought there pot,there plant and there seed,a farmer cant grow from there seed and save seed for next year,they have to buy it all over again.I think Mike’s club can go along ways in preserving the things we can still grow in this country that they dont have there greedy fingers into yet.
Originally, patenting life forms was against the law in America. Maybe even unconstitutional.
Then… it was decided that there was no harm in issuing patents to breeders of ornamental plants. To help them earn extra rewards for their time, efforts, and expense in developing beautiful new cultivars (cultivated varieites) of plants, and hybrids (from crossing unrelated lines, or closely related species).
Then… Monsanto spent years and who knows how much money pushing to patent crop plants – plants used for livestock, feed, but also for human food.
Their GMO plants cannot be created ourside an expensive, high-tech laboratory. This includes their ‘trans-genic’ plants that have genes literally smashed into the DNA of another completely unrelated organism – like the famous tomatos with fish genes. (Yes, that was real, but I’m not sure they were ever marketed.) Or corn plants ‘modified’ to produce the toxin from an unrelated bacteria IN EVERY SINGLE CELL OF THE PLANT. But most were modified to live even when increasing amounts of synthetic herbicides (first ‘Round-Up aka glyphosate, now others like 2, 4D) is sprayed on them.
Monsanto (and Syngenta, and Dow, and Pioneer/DuPont) all swore these chemicals would not bioaccumulate in mammal tissue – or in human bodies, but they do. These chemicals are found in the breast milk of nuring mothers, and even in the cordblood of newborn babies, (along with dozens, even a hundred or more other man-made chemicals, most that did not exist 75 years ago). In case it is not clear, I’m talking about humans, here.
Note that all the companies that engage in ‘bio-engineering’ are all chemical companies.
Note that all these companies have a record of poisoing water, air, soil – PEOPLE, and hiding it.
They claim chemical-dependent farming and *messing around with the basic fabric of life* is necessary to ‘feed the world’ – but that is not true. There is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone. Getting it to those who need it is a social and economic challenge, not a production issue. Best of all is letting, allowing, enabling, HELPING people to produce much of their own food! Instead, these multi-national (no loyalty to any nation) corporations have – along with others, – turned a basic human need into a ‘commodity’, to be traded, controlled, and manipulated – so a few people can get richer and richer. (Water is in the process of being turned into a commodity. Energy, another human necessity – which was often produced locally and not-for-profit in the recent past, like municiple water systems – has already been turned into a commodity.)
Scott’s is said to be Monsanto’s exclusive agent for marketing Round-Up to ordinary people to spray on lawns and around their yards. MUCH more of this stuff is applied to lawns and yards each year, and also parks, along roadsides, etc, than is used in agriculture (industrial style farming, of course). And not just Round-Up…
We choose to stay away from the chemical pushers. Why spray stuff that is banned in many countried, just to get rid of a few weeds, or a few insects, etc when there are less risky, and often cheaper, ways to deal with the issue?
Sorry to go on, but people have a right to know..
I am unware of any ornamental plants that are ‘GMO’ aka trans-genic, or the new type of genetic modification where they just move genes around willy-nilly inside a single species, but some grasses have been ‘GMOed’. Also sugar beets, apples (‘Artic’, so they don’t brown when cut), and some types of squash, and some other veggies. And a lot of bacteria, for synthesising various substances… and salmon.
Like the hokey old ‘B’ sci-fi thrillers, NO ONE really knows what will happen as a result of this tampering with the ‘code of life’ a few years, or a few human generations, down the road…
It’s also important to note that farmers are not required to grow anything from a GMO seed. If they are, then it’s because they sought it out.
I have gotten a lot of pots for my plants just driving around. We pick up pots that people stack by their garbage cans.
Hello Mike !!
I have a small commercial nursery. Sell mostly wholesale to area nurseries. Most of those nurseries ask their customers to bring back the pots, and they do. Once a year, when I am picking up material from one of the nurseries, I’ll ask if they have an abundance of, say, 1 or 2 gallon pots that have been returned. I actually get 300-400 of each for 10 cents each. Over an entire summer, I may buy 3-4000 this way. I save a ton, which I pass on to my customers, no pots go into landfills, and the nurseries get their potting areas cleaned up, plus make some $$. Been doing this for many years and it works great.
I have also spray painted colored pots in the past and that works great! Only when I sell at a flea market:)
This seems to work and nobody knows the difference!
mary from ontario canada, some of our garden centres have bins where you can deposite your empty pots for recycle or help yourself if you need any, they deal with recycling win win for everybody ..love your articales mike..
I have a few sales a year and do pretty good but in my ad I ask people who come to the sale to bring their plastic pots and trays of any size! This is the only way I get my pots. It’s almost like they put them aside for me because they know I’ll be having a sale soon and they know I need them:)
I love my customers!
What a cool idea! I am getting over being shy and not talking about what I need or can use…we gotta do what it takes to get our messages out there and start talking again to get this engine running! I have a retirement fund to re-build AND work my way back from living in someone else’s home for four years due to this “bad economy”!
Hi Mike!
I’ve been following your tips for a couple years or more now, and this year I’m going to take the leap and buy your system.
As for the ‘Pain in the Royalty Butt’ pots, I would recycle them by spray painting them with a neutral or my own pretty colors with some quick drying paint! Any law against that?
We as growers and consumers do not have to purchase patented plants in proprietary containers. We only make the problem of markup on these products worse if we support these practices. I support the purchase of “ordinary” products in plain containers, preferably from local growers.
Evan
You are right! If you want to buy plants, don’t buy the patented ones in proprietary containers. They will soon go out of business and decide that was a bad idea.
Amen Evan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AMEN! 🙂
I don’t have a back yard or black soil I live in Egypt and all i have is sand to do any in home planting how can i get rich soil for planting and how do I feed them the nutrients in between transplanting?
Tammy, you can amend your soil by working in organic matter like rotted leaves and other materials from a compost bin.
I to would like to know the answers to both of the questions above.
Tommy,
See my comment to Mary, above.
Hey Mike…I found out that my local greenhouse will take back most of the pots (except for the thin 4,6,8 pack ones. They pay like .25 each for them so if they’re in good condition…it helps me out and them out. Also we have a grower that sells plants from her garden and she loves almost all the pots I can give her. So I can get rid of pots instead of recycling them. When it comes to the colored pots…..a can of black spray paint will cover the markings nicely. You’re right…you paid for the pot, plant and all…….it’s yours. But when it comes to push comes to shove….there’s always a way around the predicament with paint. So much for big business……oh,oh, don’t get me started!
Hi Mike,
Do you accept PayPal for the purchase of your Backyard Growing System? This is the only way I have to purchase. Please let me know. Thanks.
Hi Mary,
First, I’m sorry for your bad experience. You don’t say where you live, so I’m not sure if this will help, but I hope it will.
We have a weekly farmers market in our town. It’s open from early Spring until late Fall.
Most ot the towns and cities here in Michigan have markets or you can search http://www.localharvest.org/ and find locations in your area.
I don’t have a backyard growing system, but I don’t like to throw away cuttings. This year I had around 200 plants, had a sale, and it didn’t go to well. I tried advertising, but it looks like they would rather pay Wal mart 10.95 for a plant than 5.00 from me. Go figure !Now I have a bunch of plants I know not what to do with. Why should I just give these plants away, it cost me a pot, some soil and time ! That’s why I don’t think a backyard growing system would not be good for me. I’m a 74 year old lady and truly love plants. What can I do ? Mary
Maybe there is a small nursery in your area that would purchase your product for resale.
I am in a similar position. I am really not interested in selling – don’t have time or space – but also don’t want to throw away cuttings when I prune. Every year I get dozens if not hundreds of babies of all sizes and varieties of plants but no way to get them adopted. In addition, I have dozens of volunteer self-starters of kousa dogwood, tulip trees and rose of sharon that I just can’t keep up with! What do I do?
L. B.
See my comment to Mary below.
Mark you may want to save the plants until the next spring and then take them to a local (mom and pop) nursery and sell them for a “wholesale price”. I’m sure if the plants are in good shape you’ll get a good price and anything is better then nothing.
Sorry Mary just saw I mistyped your name
Hi Mary,
I have a couple of suggestions for you:
1. Make a sign: “PLANTS FOR SALE” and put it out to the front of your property roadside.
2. Have a yard sale and sell your plants in the yard sale. This is what I do.
As a side note…. I have some extra dirt from a septic drain field job I did. I use that dirt for my pots. My “pots” are from used (washed out) milk, juice and soda jugs. I poke holes in the bottom for drainage and cut the tops off and recycle the unused part of the jugs. You would be surprised how fast these container accumulate.
The longer you have the plants the bigger they get. The bigger they get the more money you can get for them.
I’m in the same boat. I grow veg. and sell from my yard. I end up losising money because I give more away then I sell.