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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Hi Regina,

Tom mentioned 50 gal plastic drums.  If they would fit, you might be able to
put your air pots inside them.  I don't know if you live close to a big
city, but a few years ago, I needed some plastic barrels and simply looked
up barrels in the yellow pages.  I drove into Kansas City and bought several
50 gal barrels for about 10 bucks a piece.  They even had 30 gallon barrels.
The ones I bought had soap in them I think.  You can cut them with a
sawzall, skilsaw, or a keyhole saw(if you have the patience).

Mark
Zone 5 Kansas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Regina>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] More pots!


> Thanks, Charlie.  Yes, that was my main misgiving too.  Especially
> since I've seen a prediction of a La Niña forming and maybe leading to
> a hotter & drier than normal summer in 2007.  Ideally I'd like to try
> an air-pot inside a slightly larger solid plastic pot, if I could
> somehow find one of the proper size.  That would make it self-
> watering.  I've used self-watering pots for smaller plants, and they're
> GREAT for maintaining even moisture. The plants just take up what they
> need and no more.  I especially like the self-watering seed-starting
> flats. A tray of water, then a platform raised above the water level,
> with a piece of fabric draped across the whole thing with one end
> submerged in the water, then the bottomless seed cells on top of the
> platform. See a picture of it at http://www.gardeners.com/APS-
> Parts/default/StandardCatalog.APS_Cat.11802.cpd
>
> I've also seen descriptions of homemade ones, made using a large
> rubbermaid-type tub with upturned plastic food containers for risers
> above the reservoir, and a piece of cloth run throughout the soil to
> wick the moisture into it. I don't remember how they kept the soil
> separate from the water --- probably used the tub lid cut down to size
> as a platform.
>
> Regina
>
> ----Original Message----<br>
> From: Charlie Paradise
> Date: Mar 7, 2007 7:59 <br>
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org><br>
> Subj: Re: [NAFEX] More pots!<br>
> <br>
> <PRE><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><< I'm still intrigued by the "air-
> pots", though.  No one here ventures an  opinion on them?  I found a
> retail outlet,  http://www.aroidia.com/airpots/  >>
>
> Very briefly venturing an opinion you request:
> all that exposure to air means will dry VERY QUICKLY.  How could
> manufacturer
> and distributer not mention that?  On a hot day I venture that pot
> could dry
> out in 3 hours.  This is one of the reason plastic pots began to
> supplant clay
> - clay just dries too quickly to always keep the pot damp.   I'm very
> interested in working with some of the "self-watering" pots out now
> because they work
> contrariwise to the "air-pots" in that they strive to keep the plant
> well
> watered vs. drying it out even quicker.  Anyone have any experience
> with
> self-watering pots?
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