Our Unique Decorative Pots

Once they’re settled in for a few days, your herbs will benefit from being potted-on (moved) out of their plastic grower pots into the bamboo 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.

Use the bamboo pots inside or out.

These bamboo pots come with bamboo saucers so you can pop them on a windowsill or somewhere bright and sunny inside. When you water, they won’t leak all over your shelves and surfaces.

If growing outside, you may not need the saucers as the pots will need to drain and you don’t want the soil to be water logged. In hot, dry conditions and hosepipe bans the saucers can be used to retain what little water there is.

Use a good quality compost such as John Innes No.2, and add a handful of horticultural grit or gravel to the bottom of the pot to aid drainage.

Note. Some herbs aren’t suitable for growing in these pots for very long. Those with long tap roots or which grow to an impressive height are best planted straight out into the garden.

Pot and saucer disposal

Our pots and saucers are a made from a natural product and will start to degrade after a few seasons. 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!