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Container gardening is as popular as ever. Containers can range from inexpensive plastic to pricy ceramic. Now that winter has arrived, what should we do with them? Plastic pots can be exposed to the ...

A: My faithful readers are going to be experts on the basic rules-of-thumb for R.I.’s bin/cart recycling program. I repeat them as often as I can in my quest to get all Rhode Islanders to a status of ...

It only takes a few trips to the nursery for new plants to also assemble a skyline of empty, stacked pots. After I plant a flat of 24 small containers of seasonal color, a dozen veggies and herbs and ...

As I was setting up my grow lights and heat mats last week in preparation for sowing seeds, I was struck by the neatly stacked pile of old plastic pots lurking in the corner of my shed. I reuse pots, ...