Our Unique Decorative Pots

About Our Special Pots

All our herbs come with their own, decorative home to use indoors or out – or both! Our unique, rustic plant pots are made of recycled cardboard and are 100% biodegradable. They allow you to grow your herbs indoors on a sunny windowsill right away, or pot up and pop outside. They’re made from a natural product and will start to degrade and discolour immediately, especially when wet.

Made to degrade!

We wanted a pot which left minimal impact on the environment, so made one from paper which will gracefully biodegrade. The type of growing conditions dictate the speed of break down. Moist plants in dry pots on a windowsill will last for ages (watch for a mouldy bottom which may mark surfaces). Pots outside in very wet conditions and over winter will break down more quickly. Mould will appear and the pots will become soft, especially if there are no drainage holes.

Water resistant

To prolong their life, the pots have a natural soya gum coating on the inside and base to make them water resistant, it leaves a milky residue when wet which is nothing to worry about. Damp pots on windowsills may mark painted surfaces as they get older.

Room to grow

Like a new school blazer, our decorative pots are a size or two larger than the herbs, to give the little darlings room to grow. Your plants will be happy on a sunny windowsill as they are, in the decorative pots for a while – depending on variety, size and season! Or you can pot them on…

Potting on

Once they’re settled in, your herbs will benefit from being potted-on (moved) out of their plastic pots into the decorative ones or straight into the garden. A good sign is a ‘rooty bottom’ with lots of thick strands growing out of the hole in the base of the pot.

You’ll need to make some holes in the base of the decorative pot.

Using a drill is the quickest and simplest method. Turn the pot bottom side up and off you go.

If you don’t have a drill, you can use a corkscrew. You might need to soften the bottom of the pot first by leaving it in approx. 2cm of water (inside and out) for a few hours.

Use the corkscrew to first open a bottle of your favourite plonk and then make a several holes in the bottom of the pot. Poke through a pencil to widen them, trim off any access paper with a sharp knife.

It’s important to use a good soil mix for your herbs.

Pot disposal

Our pots are a made from a natural product and will start to degrade and discolour immediately, especially when wet. Eventually they will fall apart in a mouldy, pulpy mess which can be scooped up and added to your compost heap or kitchen waste recycling.

Alternatively, when the pot is old and falling apart, plant the whole thing – pot and herb into the ground or larger pot and it will carry-on degrading naturally.

Our pots are not slug and snail proof, and the squelchy, crunchy blighters may have a little nibble on them. At least they’re eating the pots and not your plants!

We sell herbs in FULL collections of SIX plants.

You can either choose one of our exclusive, curated herb collections or create your own MIX SIX plant collection (any variety or combination).

All come with decorative pots, wooden plant labels, herb plants snips and a comprehensive growing guide.

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If your plants arrive damaged, sick, squashed or something else is wrong, please tell us immediately and we’ll do our best to sort it for you. Please only leave a bad review after we’ve properly fallen out!

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