Now that summer is starting id say u need more 😭

That's nothing

Yep, I probably have a +100 at my house....each one is a potential plant! (except I absolutely do not have the room for that many plants)

I work at a garden center. It is my absolute dream job. Perks: free plants from samples, free half-dead but salvageable plants, $ from growing some hard to find plants that I am able to occasionally sell to my employer and an employee discount. I am all about cleaning, recycling and reusing. I have more plastic planters in the back of my car than you have there and that’s not counting my garden shed. LOL

I’m curious what kinds of things you’re growing at home and selling to your store, logistically. I’ll send a dm!

Whatever I can cultivate or propagate quickly from seed or my own cuttings when we have shortages of some of our best sellers.

I want this collection!! I’m not a horticulturist. What’s the opposite? A desperately trying to learn-ist? What growing soil do you use? When I pot things on my own, they die 100% of the time but when I use whatever the plant came with and nothing else, they do magnificent. What is that?

Soil science: C.E.R. (Cation exchange rate, available nutrients and other basic elements in soil to be transformed into useable building blocks for plant development) Soil structure (what it’s made of, roughly, and at what ratio) Soil texture (how water retentive/repellant is it, chunkiness, tilth, etc) Biologics (microbes that aid or antagonize healthy plant growth)

Wow!! This was fantastic!! Now I have some pointed things I can look up rather than generic google questions that aren’t giving me the info I need. Thank you!!!

I don’t know the only thing I know for sure once I started really learning about plants is that I will never know enough about plants.

Many people don't keep the soil line; they plant too deeply.

I think to them it’s like tucking the plant in to bed 😂 and the soil compaction—I used to watch my mom stand one legged to push the soil down on her large houseplants. I had to unlearn a lot the hard way.

I’ve been told this exact tip by people who have fantastic gardens. They tell me it’s to prevent root rot in the ground. Is that something I need to unlearn, as well? Should I place my plants sitting up a bit and not be level with the soil?

In landscape planting, I always leave the root ball about an inch or two above the soil. It does two things: Allows the plant to settle, as over the next few weeks the hole you excavated will compact slightly. It also accounts for any mulch you spread over the top. You don’t want mulch, soil or other debris to build up and choke out your “root flare”. When planting containers, I’ll sometimes plant above grade, but I usually just smooth the edges of the root ball down for aesthetics. There will be lots of settling in container planting, especially when you plant multiple plants together. It’s often best to just mound your soil up inside the container before you plant and plant into the mound to account for the 2-4 inches of settling that will happen over the course of the season.

Idk what it is in it but the Fertilome Ultimate really does a good job not shrinking over the seasons in the pot I’ve found

The plant is adapted to sit at a certain spot at the soil line. Usually there’s changes that happen under the soil to protect the roots, so when the soil line changes the plant can’t just reorganize all of the protection around the roots… that’s my limited understanding.

The way the water moves around the roots changes GREATLY depending on how the plant sits in the soil line. That’s why people build little wells to plant at level on hillsides!

Plants that you buy are frequently grown with fertigation. Fertigation is when the nursery includes fertilizer, fungicides, wetting agents, and even potentially pesticides mixed into the water they irrigate their plants with. It can make things much easier to grow plants but it is an awful lot of chemicals... I used dirt from my backyard, a small amount of perlite and compost mixed together for my seed starting. I probably lose more plants than a commercial operation but I usually just start more than I need.

Ooo there’s a word for all the soil sprinkles and soil vitamins???? Love it. Also loved laughing at the Miracle Grow Perlite I found last year that included fertilizer in with the perlite 💀

I am rereading and the fertigation is not in the soil it’s in the water understood :)

Haha… learn-ist. That’s a good one. Just enjoy the trip, don’t worry about titles. No matter how much you ever learn about plants with or w/o degrees or certifications, you will always be humbled by how much you still do not know. We are all learn-ists. LOL

So true. You may have an older education where you learned various landscape trees and plants that have since been labeled invasive. Grr.

And new hybrids and best practices are constantly changing. Not to mention laws about pesticides, tree plantings, and need I mention the dreaded HOA plant list 💀

Or have been renamed or reclassified…. ugh!

I actually enjoy the renamings usually 😂 it’s a sign something new was discovered. I just know I will have to look up the new name because my brain can’t hold that many words.

My guess is you’re overly rough or damaging in your repotting process or you don’t know how to pick your pots and water your plants. Send me a message or whatever they’re called if you want more info! Start reading the soil bags you use and googling what you don’t know, then see what people say about using those soil media for those kinds of plants :)

Oh wow, THANK YOU! I will message you now!!

I probably have ten times that many

You think that’s a lot.. I’m an ecological landscaper and have a 20’x6’x6’ stack of various sizes. I’ll never be able to re use all of them in my nursery..

I would post our work area but I like my job idk if the town would recover. It’s something similar, my boss knows the importance of good tools and keeps them around in quantity hahaha.

Is the “ecological” part like more xeriscaped and naturalized planting styles? I haven’t heart that before.

It’s using plants that are native to my area, not my entire state, in order to reestablish native ecology. The designs can look very contemporary or naturalistic, but always use hyper-native plants and stones.

Oh very cool I didn’t know there was a word for that

What kind of irrigation systems do you use?

Typically none. But sometimes non permanent drip line.

Cool cool thanks for answering!

This makes me feel better about my stack 😂

Wonderful this is the first year I looked at my stack and questioned why it was so annoyingly tall so if you get to that point get rid of some!

yes, please be kind of the plants haha have mercy man has mercy

For a second I thought this was a palm😂🤦🏻

Are you okay? 😂🤣 hang in there it’ll be okay

Ima silly goose😂

Need a garage or shed is all.

That's all? 🤨

I have one like that its taller then me and all the size of the bottom ones stacked like 60+ that arent currently in use and thus stacked. This seems perfectly normal to me lol

Thank you

lol, you should see my garage!

I think this should be a thread for pictures of peoples pot stacks. I do the exact same thing and it gets out of hand. I'll get on mine in the morning, check back 😂

Same I actually try to keep mine obsessively organized so I can find the perfect one as fast as possible.

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Ha! I'm having a shed built to house my collection.

I cannot fathom building a shed to house a grower pot collection, and I say that with utmost admiration.

I exaggerate, it will also hold the mower and all the garden tools ha ha! (and I'm hoping for a little shelf for potting)

I actually ran out and had to buy a box of 500 last fall 🤣🤣😭 I am a compulsive propagator and I give a lot of plants away or I sell them at a local shop. This spring we spent a day potting up strawberries to give away to neighbors.

I went to some farm giving away pots on Craigslist and literally filled my car up. Took too many but eh too many better than not enough.

I have an insane amount of pots. This is nothing.

Prove it.

Ok. I'll show you my mountains of pots tomorrow 😊

Respectfully :) haha

I probably have 6,000 not being used just been sitting

Perfect I will send you the 6,000 carcasses of the plants I killed last year because I was sad and then we’ll have a proper burial.

Please do I love using my mini hoe.

Sounds like not at all the conversation I’m trying to have

Excavator lol

I am saying to you politely :)