Re: Re: Re: Wholesale Suppliers

Kitty - yes they are heavy - you're so right! But in this part of the
country they can stay outdoors, so you put them where you want them then
plant them in situ and they stay put - no moving. Up there they probably
would crack over winter so would not be as practical. Here they're a
pretty much permanent fixture.


Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: james singer
Sent: 4/30/2004 5:44:10 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Wholesale Suppliers

> Forgot that, sorry.
> 
> 
> On Friday, April 30, 2004, at 05:52 PM, Kitty wrote:
> 
> > Plastic needs to be watered less frequently than TC, too.  Is there a  
> > reason
> > you MUST have clay?  Personally I find TC a heavy pain in the patoot,  
> > even
> > if it does have a classic appearance.
> > Kitty
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "james singer" <jsinger@igc.org>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 4:15 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Wholesale Suppliers
> >
> >
> >> Don't know where you'll find small terra cotta pots these days, Jesse.
> >> Most growers who grow in small pots, grow in 4-1/2" plastic pots.  
> >> Much,
> >> much cheaper [I know, "and they look like it"] and they don't break.  
> >> 10
> >> percent breakage in shipments of clay pots is probably not an
> >> exaggeration.
> >>
> >> There are plastic trays [flats] that are designed to hold 18 4'1/2"
> >> plastic pots, which is more or less the commercial standard.
> >>
> >> I imagine it's all marketing. An annual in a 4-1/2" pot is large  
> >> enough
> >> to sell for $2.50--and it's only a month older than an annual in a 2"
> >> pot that will only fetch $1.00.
> >>
> >> You might consider visiting all the nursery/florist supply houses in
> >> your nearest big city and check out your options. They may not carry
> >> clay pots but they probably know where to special order them.
> >>
> >> I would also advise, when you're visiting the supply houses, to try to
> >> learn what the local commercial standards are. I wrote above that  
> >> there
> >> is an 18-pot flat; well there's also a 24-pot flat floating around  
> >> [use
> >> discontinued in south Florida].
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Friday, April 30, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Jesse Bell wrote:
> >>
> >>> O.K., got my tax I.D. number and all that good stuff...so now I can  
> >>> buy
> >>> wholesale. Problem is...I'm having trouble finding what I need!  
> >>> Anybody
> >>> know of a place that sells different sizes of good 'ole, BASIC style,
> >>> terra cotta pots???? I searched last night, but didn't find what I  
> >>> was
> >>> looking for.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jesse
> >>>
> >>> <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com> wrote:
> >>> Oh my - certainly doesn't sound too sanitary does it? That must have
> >>> been quite a sight! We may be in for a toad floater this afternoon  
> >>> they
> >>> say. Nothing knee deep let's hope. Glad I got all my stepping stones  
> >>> in
> >>> the ground (countersunk) yesterday - finished my path project. Will  
> >>> add
> >>> rocks from Jesse's as they become available!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Pam Evans
> >>> Kemp, TX
> >>> zone 8A
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: Andrea H
> >>> Sent: 4/29/2004 9:12:44 PM
> >>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
> >>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain, sweet rain
> >>>
> >>>> Kitty, all of us that live near the coast get foot deep rain when it
> >>>> storms.
> >>>> No drains you know, or at least in the case here, 300 year old  
> >>>> clogged
> >>>> drains. (OK, maybe not quite 300 years, but close! And if it's high
> >>>> tide,
> >>>> then you really have to watch out. I remember when I lived in
> >>>> Charleston
> >>>> people sitting on tables in the Applebee's downtown and waitresses
> >>>> serving
> >>>> drinks in knee high water. Can that be sanitary?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Andrea H
> >>>> Beaufort, SC
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Kitty"
> >>>> To:
> >>>> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:04 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Rain, sweet rain
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Wow. When it rains it pours! A foot deep - problems with the storm
> >>>> drains
> >>>>> or just coming down that fast?
> >>>>> We're supposed to be getting rain over several days soon. I wanted
> >>>>> to get
> >>>>> my lawn fertilizer down before it gets here, but the winds have  
> >>>>> been
> >>>>> high
> >>>>> the past several days. Maybe there'll be a window of opportunity
> >>>> tomorrow.
> >>>>> I did get 600 feet of irrigation tubing set today with sprayers in
> >>>>> place.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Kitty
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>>> From: "james singer"
> >>>>> To: "Chat"
> >>>>> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 5:41 PM
> >>>>> Subject: [CHAT] Rain, sweet rain
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> It's here. At last. Came as I was on my way home from the nursery
> >>>>>> this
> >>>>>> afternoon
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sky was grey, overcast, when I left the building--the kind of
> >>>>>> weather
> >>>>>> where you think you feel sprinkles but are never quite sure. Cool,
> >>>>>> prickly skin.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> By the time I got a mile down the road to the east-west artery  
> >>>>>> that
> >>>>>> meanders toward the plantation, it was pouring. And when I got
> >>>>>> home--7
> >>>>>> miles further into the heart of the storm--the water was a foot
> >>>>>> deep on
> >>>>>> some of the streets.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It's now 2 hours later. It's still raining. A gentle, gentle
> >>>>>> trickle.
> >>>>>> The brave cat [Beans] yowls to go out, but won't leave the shelter
> >>>>>> of
> >>>>>> the doorway when I open the door for her.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Island Jim
> >>>>>> Southwest Florida
> >>>>>> Zone 10
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