Marin Master Gardeners need resource...

[djholst]

for the re-use of plastic plant pots. We accumulate a lot of these pots as we are planting our demonstration gardens and need a resource to re-use the pots. Please contact the office if you have any suggestions. In San Francisco there is a man who starts native plants that collects the pots. Anyone in our community with that need? Thanks.
Marin Master Gardeners

[email protected]
Phone: (415) 499-4204

[Hot Compost]

in San Francisco, there is a group named "SF Gro"
https://www.sfgro.org/

that coordinates the 50 or so community gardens in SF. they would be a good candidate for offloading a truckload of plastic plant pots.

there's also a community garden in Santa Rosa at College & Fulton, the TLC Lutheran garden ~
https://www.thanksgivinglutheran.org/garden.html

they are planning next year's grow. some of the people might need 1 gal & smaller pots for starting plants in.

there's also a community garden associated with the Catholic Homeless Shelter at the corner of 7th & "Something", one block up from Morgan, the street that runs just west of Highway 101.

I also think Sonoma Compost would be happy to recycle the pots. They have a big recycling center. They take in about 300 tons of yard trimmings a day & turn it into dirt. They have all sorts of free & cheap wood that comes in with the yard trimmings, so it's sort of an informal garden center. They sell the finished compost, which is very high quality soil. They're on Meacham near Stony-point.

One of the things I have noticed about San Francisco is that the soils are natively sandy. The community garden I belong to there is in the Richmond and was started on sand and iceplant.

Whereas in Santa Rosa, a lot of the soil is clay-y, rich in organic material/nutrients, but very much in need of drainage.

Combine the San Francisco soil and the Santa Rosa soil and you get a good soil mix. I always thought it would be good to get this sort of trading going.

Also the TLC Lutheran garden (in Santa Rosa) has a big pile of 2 x 6 boards, un-used. That garden's been going for a year, and nobody has used those boards. They might as well get re-cycled somewhere. One of the activities at the Argonne community garden in SF about a year ago was to re-build some raised garden beds, using about that same size of boards. Those 2 x 6 boards are just a good size for raised garden beds.

[Braggi]

... Also the TLC Lutheran garden (in Santa Rosa) has a big pile of 2 x 6 boards, un-used. That garden's been going for a year, and nobody has used those boards. They might as well get re-cycled somewhere. One of the activities at the Argonne community garden in SF about a year ago was to re-build some raised garden beds, using about that same size of boards. Those 2 x 6 boards are just a good size for raised garden beds.

Unless the boards are redwood, they shouldn't be used for raised beds. Fir will just get eaten by termites and rot and pressure treated should never be used for raised beds since they're filled with poison.

If they're fir or pressure treated they should be used for building.

Thanks for sharing the info.

-Jeff

[PaintNPix]

You can donate them to Jail Industries by the Santa Rosa airport. They run a program allowing inmates to learn plant propagation. They sell plants and re-use the pots. I think its a great program and should have our support.

Tim

for the re-use of plastic plant pots. We accumulate a lot of these pots as we are planting our demonstration gardens and need a resource to re-use the pots. Please contact the office if you have any suggestions. In San Francisco there is a man who starts native plants that collects the pots. Anyone in our community with that need? Thanks.
Marin Master Gardeners

[email protected]
Phone: (415) 499-4204

[nicofrog]

I'm confused;
as far as I know, gardening pots are recyclable in the normal recycle bin.
We can use the BIG ones at Green Valley Village(we have a fledgling C.S.A. beginning here, as well as an oak tree nursery, and an amateur bamboo collection . Nico 707 684 0341

for the re-use of plastic plant pots. We accumulate a lot of these pots as we are planting our demonstration gardens and need a resource to re-use the pots. Please contact the office if you have any suggestions. In San Francisco there is a man who starts native plants that collects the pots. Anyone in our community with that need? Thanks.
Marin Master Gardeners

[email protected]
Phone: (415) 499-4204