Pot sizes.

[donnakebab]

I seem to have a growing collect of pots some of which I never use. If I wanted to just keep a few sizes which would you recommend would be the most useful.

[CaroltheCarrot]

3" 4" 6" and then big ones for their final resting places, I personally like the little 3" square ones cos you can fit 15 into a seed tray, I cant be doing with the same seeds in different pots,me OCD, never!

[donnakebab]

I like the square ones too and I like same plants in same pots.

You're not a Virgo are you CC?

[CaroltheCarrot]

Nope Taurus

[shona_b]

whatever I have its never the right size! now I am overrun with seedling sized pots and desperate for huge ones to pot up tomatoes into - there's probably some sods / murphy's law of pots out there!

[dominic10]

I am lucky I can recycle pots at my allotment and get any size I need Usually for potting on. I donated lots of different sized pots earlier in the year in the big tidy up at home and then was offered my half plot so this recycling of pots has been very useful this year. I use a mixture of 3 inch pots, trays and toilet rolls for seedlings. I plant directly into troughs for salad leaves and herbs The main things I pot on are courgettes, cucumbers and squashes before planing out and my toms eventually go into big pots.

[Farmer_Gyles]

a big variety of different sized pots is a pain - can't be stacked / tidied easily so they tend to get everywhere

i have small 2" pots to start the onion sets before planting out into freshly dug ground - gives them a real headstart against weeds
i sow most other things in modules / cells, 24 to a tray - beans / sweetcorn in the larger cells at 15 to a tray
i pot on into 3.5" pots - i have loads, all different colours - i have loads of large trays that hold 18 3.5" pots, so it works
if necessary, i pot on into 5" / 1 litre pots - got a couple of thousand of these stacked in the shed - anyone want some?
i have some tall 6" pots which we're using for parsnips this year, 1 per pot
and i have about 150 large pots, 8" and 10" black plastic ones, morrisons flower buckets, etc - lots of each size - means it's easier for keeping them sorted out / tidy
and i have loads of troughs too - 8 of one size, 10 of another etc

i have hundreds of other "individual" pots that i'm trying to get rid of - keep offering them on freecycle ....

[jacob]

You've got pots you're not using? Is that possible? No matter how many pots we acquire we've never seem to have quite enough...!

[alex-adam]

Anyone still using the lovely old clay pots? - to be honest I mostly use plastic, but still use the big clay ones for a few tomato plants and a couple for perenniel herbs.

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[eirish]

Me! Plastic ones are fine for temporary things, like seedlings, but I prefer to use clay in the garden.

[donnakebab]

I like clay pots but find they dry out quickly. Not in this weather though!

[singleseeder]

When potting on toms, courgettes, sweetcorn etc. I use 500ml yoghurt pots. They give more volume of compost to the area it sits on than most commercial pots IYSWIM.

For smaller pots, I also like the square ones. It makes me feel I'm not wasting space and when you water, there are no gaps to lose water through.

Do you think I'm over analysing this?

[veggiechicken]

I like the square ones too because they fit into seed trays for moving them about. Clay pots are for permanent planting - especially herbs.
However, coloured pots are my weakness! It doesn't matter how weird the shape I cannot bring myself to part with a brightly coloured pot!!