Lattice Pots

[Brian Ellis]

 

[steve owen]

Thanks to all the links above I have now had delivery of a crate of pots...is there no hope for me

Brian
Can I join your lattice saddos club? I have six hundred lattice pots waiting in the garage and yesterday started the task of lifting, sorting, and replanting the snowdrop clumps. My hope is to maintain some continuing growth before dormancy in their new spaced-out John Innes No2 -with-added-grit heaven before dormancy comes.
It's necessarily a slow business, but even over the first five varieties I have come across the odd diseased bulbs needing throwout, had the chance to fungicide the healthy majority, and teased apart overcrowded groups of bulbs. Almost as therapeutic as handweeding beds with a small trowel in the sunshine!
Steve

[Brian Ellis]

Thanks to all the links above I have now had delivery of a crate of pots...is there no hope for me

Brian
Can I join your lattice saddos club? I have six hundred lattice pots waiting in the garage and yesterday started the task of lifting, sorting, and replanting the snowdrop clumps. My hope is to maintain some continuing growth before dormancy in their new spaced-out John Innes No2 -with-added-grit heaven before dormancy comes.
It's necessarily a slow business, but even over the first five varieties I have come across the odd diseased bulbs needing throwout, had the chance to fungicide the healthy majority, and teased apart overcrowded groups of bulbs. Almost as therapeutic as handweeding beds with a small trowel in the sunshine!
Steve

Welcome Steve, I think you could make Vice-President

[Alan_b]

Can I ask again if anyone actually ever got the lattice pots they ordered? 

[Toft Tops]

Still not got mine!

[Paddy Tobin]

Still not got mine!

I think we should start a support group for Lynda and other sufferers.

Paddy

[PDJ]

I did a little research and found that the mesh my Blagdon pots are made from is too large to stop the caterpillars of the Common Swift.  

Two Methods I use in the garden are:

1.  Lining the holes with 4 x roofing slates to form an open ended box.  A couple of inches of grit sand is placed in the bottom before adding the growing mix.  Many pests tend not to travel deep enough to come up through the sand which with caterpillars tends to puncture them.

2.  I have used with success in the garden Net Curtain material to combat vine weevil and other soil pests.  Simply line the hole with a single layer of material.  The bonus is the material is cheap and the hole shape and size is not restricted by being preformed.

[KentGardener]

I received an email to say that the pots are currently out of stock and will be sent to me in April.

[mark smyth]

I saw an excellent lattice pot while at the daffodil show. The garden centre had pond plants in lattice pots that had larger holes and less plastic. The have asked their supplier, I hope, where s/he gets the pots.

[Anthony Darby]

That's the kind of pots which would suit cypripediums as they are large enough to pull roots back through when dividing or replanting.

[mark smyth]

here are some photos to show round and square lattice pots. The square ones are, to me anyway, not suitable for bulbs. You can see from the round one why I said roots just go round instead of out the holes.

The last photo shows a faulty pot that I only just realised has no holes in the sides

[David Nicholson]

Mmmmmmm. I would be interested to hear what others think.

[annew]

Why don't you like the square ones, Mark? They should prevent the roots from circling.

[mark smyth]

I'm going by what I saw when I repotted my snowdrops last time. Most roots were inside the pot with maybe 10 per side getting through. Thursday has us back to normal weather so I'll lift some pots and take photos.

[Anthony Darby]

I thought the whole point was the roots can move into the soil outside the pot. You might as well use ordinary pots and safe the expense of lily baskets.