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Where do you get your plants and supplies? (piefed.social)
submitted 4 days ago by viral.vegabond@piefed.social to c/gardening@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/houseplants/p/1978261/where-do-you-get-your-plants-and-supplies

Hi, I'm a beginner at plant caretaking. I recently picked out a couple of small plants at a nursery, but they didn't have any pottery to go with them unfortunately.

So, I'd like to know where do you generally like to go to get what you need? Are there any good online resources I should be aware of? I'd prefer to shop locally of course, but the resources available to me here are limited and difficult to get to.

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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

Is there a gardening or buy-nothing group in your area? They usually have people willing to trade or give away things, especially clippings for propagation.

I've amassed a fair collection of nursery pots, plus a bunch of random nice ones, and for some reason since local planters are absurdly expensive ($16-$18 for a plain 10” clay pot with no saucer at the local hardware stores, ridiculous!) I buy them in packs online. Haven't had any broken in shipping yet.

I save and replant tomato seeds each year. Apparently there's some bacterial problem with doing that, but it hasn't affected my plants that I've noticed.

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