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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Look for local food processing plants.  They often have food grade plastic barrels very cheap or free for the hauling.  These barrels are most for food products and flavor agents, so there is nothing in them that would harm plants.
-Lon Rombough
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On Mar 7, 2007, at 9:33 AM, Mark & Helen Angermayer wrote:

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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