Plastic planters generally offer gardeners great opportunities for controlled cultivation and space saving. Square plastic planters, because they’re regularly shaped, also allow them to be stored and used without a wasted millimetre. On an overcrowded island, where any outside space at all is at a premium, that’s good news for the home grower.
Square plastic planters, unlike round plastic planters, can be used in rows, placed on shelves, and stored in traditional storage spaces. Square plastic planters used for seedlings, then, maximise the area allotted for starting plants. Where a large area is given over to plant starting, the use of square plastic planters can give a gardener almost half as much room again as round planters: where every round edge would have left a crescent shaped hole (and so a space where no plant can be grown), square plastic planters fit flush with one another and let all that lost space come back into play. Theoretically, in a large enough area, using square plastic planters over round ones could yield such a significantly bigger crop that the extra plants alone would pay for themselves several times over.
Square plastic planters are also ideal for “flat gardening” – cultivating flowers and other plants in spaces that don’t actually have an outside area. Square plastic planters fit ideally onto windowsills and ledges, which means they can be used as flower boxes or window planters for things like tomatoes and chilli peppers. Using square plastic planters in this second way (for growing small quantities of usable veg and spices) means flat owners don’t have to be left out of the home grown food revolution. Rather, they can use square plastic planters to take the idea of a kitchen garden to a whole new level – by actually having a garden in their kitchen.
Square plastic planters, unlike plant pots (which are usually round), won’t fall off windowsills. Square plastic planters can be used for floral window boxes with confidence and impunity, bringing the brightness and cheer that only flowers can, to places that would not normally have been able to cultivate them.
Whichever way you look at them, and however you want to use them, square plastic planters are absolutely indispensable to the modern gardener. Like all planters, square plastic planters can greatly assist in seed cultivation (with the added bonus that square plastic planters do so with no wasted space); and, like no other planters, square plastic planters can bring the joys not just of flowers, but of food cultivation, to the most unlikely of spaces. So if you know someone who’s moving into a flat and want to buy them something useful as a moving in present, why not give square plastic planters a thought?
