Square Plastic Pots

[David Nicholson]

Or should it be Plastic Square Pots?

Old question-but new answers needed. I have run out of 9cm rigid, square plastic pots and my previous supplier has gone out of business. Can anyone UK based give me details of a supplier please. I need a couple of hundred.

The Essentials Company do supply them but are out of stock.

[annew]

I get mine from LBS in Lancashire. See http://www.lbs-horticulture.co.uk/

[mark smyth]

http://www.lbs-horticulture.co.uk

[mark smyth]

great minds etc

[mark smyth]

http://www.smithnjones.co.uk/
http://www.jfcmonro.co.uk/ShowDetails.asp?id=386
http://www.grow.co.uk/horticulture/pots.htm

[David Shaw]

How do you run out of pots?
Go to the local re-cycling centre fill up the car boot and then wash them.
Or try
www.kaysdiscountgarden.co.uk

[gote]

Problem is that one wants them all of the same size so that they pack easily.
I have hundreds but got fed up with the nuisance of different sizes so I bought a whole box of new pots all the same size.
These are German and were bought in Sweden so unless you really want it I will not bother to dig out the address.
Göte

[David Nicholson]

How do you run out of pots?
Go to the local re-cycling centre fill up the car boot and then wash them.
Or try
www.kaysdiscountgarden.co.uk

You must be lucky at your re-cycling centre David I have yet to see a 9cm rigid square plastic pot at mine!  Kayes only stock the thin walled kind that go brittle in no time.

[David Nicholson]

I get mine from LBS in Lancashire. See http://www.lbs-horticulture.co.uk/

Thanks for the link to LBS Anne and Mark. Not the easiest web site to use is it? Maybe they only deal with trade customers?

I have found a firm in Essex, H Smith Plastics Ltd, who supply a range of products including 9cm square plastic pots which they describe as 'individually pressure formed'. I hope they mean reasonably rigid? Details can be found on www.plantcell.co.uk
There is a link to 'smaller quantities for gardeners', and they seem to have trade terms for larger quantities. Prices appear to be:-
a case of 1000  £32.00 inclusive of VAT
       "       600  £25.00          "
       "       450  £20.00          "
although the site is not explicit I think those prices are inclusive of delivery although I shall check this out tomorrow.

It constantly amazes me that at my local Garden (and Leisure!!) Centre I can buy expensive pairs of shoes, vases of all kinds, Polar Fleeces in all colours of the rainbow and the poorest chicken curry on God's earth, but a reasonable quality square plastic pot-no chance
 

[David Nicholson]

Problem is that one wants them all of the same size so that they pack easily.
I have hundreds but got fed up with the nuisance of different sizes so I bought a whole box of new pots all the same size.
These are German and were bought in Sweden so unless you really want it I will not bother to dig out the address.
Göte

Gote,
a German brand 'TEKU' have been the best square plastic pots I have ever used.

[Heather Smith]

I looked at www.plantcell.co.uk but obviously I don't use the quantities you do. The trays with 15 2.5" square pots are what I use, but I buy them from a garden centre if I see them, or from B&Q. It's probably dearer than buying quantity and having them shipped over but I'm contented.

[mark smyth]

I use Teku from a local company who sell wholesale and retail. I bought a box of 1000 11cm this time last year so I could have all my bulbs in the same pot

[Heather Smith]

Must have been a big pot, Mark!!

[mark smyth]

ar ar! LOL

[David Shaw]

Another favourite RANT of mine is on Carriage Costs to Scotland
These remote little English companies, including Plantcell, don't seem to get it that Perth, Aberdeen and Inverness are actually on the British mainland and level much higher carriage charges than to places further south.