Plastic planters are cheap, easy to use and take up very little space when you’re storing them. Plastic planters are also easily reusable, which makes them an environmentally sound buy – particularly when you’re using them for seeding vegetables, which of course have a huge impact on your carbon footprint. Growing vegetables from plastic planters saves you money both on your shopping bill and your fuel bill (if you’re using plastic planters for veg, you don’t need to make so many food shopping trips, which both cuts down on petrol costs and brings a smile to your inner environmentalist).
Plastic planters are easily stackable, which makes them ideal for every garden. Small gardens benefit from plastic planters for two reasons: one, plastic planters don’t take up a great deal of space, which is obviously at a premium in a little garden; and two, plastic planters can be used away from the garden area, in a tool store or even indoors. Plastic planters are mostly designed to start the growth of a plant, rather than keep the thing going through its whole life span: so you can put your plastic planters anywhere you have space and available light, and transfer the seedlings into the ground when they have reached the right size.
Segmented plastic planters are particularly useful for starting seedlings on the road to maturity. Segmented plastic planters are vacuum formed with individual compartments for single seeds: so you can either use single plastic planters to grow all manner of plants, or control the growth of several instances of the same type of plant with ease. Segmented plastic planters allow you to deliver precise quantities of plant food per seedling, rather than throw a handful of the stuff into soil that houses several seedlings. That means each plant receives the right quantity of nutrition: no single plant is able to hog the food, so in theory you should get several healthy specimens rather than one or two big dogs and a lot of runts.
Plastic planters are versatile, easy to use bits of gardening kit that let anyone control the growth and number of their plants with very little hassle. In a world where self-sufficiency is becoming less of an eccentricity and more of an economy drive, plastic planters give you the head start you need to take control of your outside spaces.
