Garden Art or simply storage?

What do you do with your unused pots?

When you've been gardening a little while, you'll have an ever growing collection of empty pot. Until you reuse them of course. If you don't like the Pinterest post below, have a beautiful and rather expensive collection of terracotta pots then they are tricky to store and don't look pretty either.

I love what they've done with the terracotta pots and thought about how I might adapt this for my own storage. Here are a couple of ideas.

Materials: metal rod or wooded dowel coated with preservative (don't use where you will plant in the future)

Equipment: Hammer

Cut about 5 lengths of rod, decide where in the garden you will put them, be cautions as this is something you probably won't want to move too often. We are placing ours near our seedlings area, for convenience. Get your pots, arrange them in height order, split them into groups - divided by the number of poles you cut. Be sure to add extra space for those pots which will come in the future.

Place the biggest from each group where you want the stack to be be sure to leave a gap - to get them on and off and for future collection growth.

Once you've decided your positions press the largest into the soil to get an imprint, remove, and hammer the rod into the centre of the imprint. Add the stack. Repeat in height reducing order until you are finished.

NB: Many plastic pots don't have a central hole and you will need one for this style. It won't hurt to have extra drainage and we used a hole cutter attached to a drill to make ours work.

Design style: We thought the columns could look like sunflowers, Grenadier guards, or maybe even family members. I will get some design ideas together and make a future post - if you would like something particular please comment below.

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