Comments on: Unique Container Idea: Planter Cart

By: Gayla

Gayla — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:22:00 +0000

Karyn: I considered the same but I regularly use my basket to hold stuff.

Some wooden items will work without any sort of lining. You can also line with plastic sheeting, bags, landscaping fabric, burlap, coir, etc…

I do make holes for drainage.

By: karyn

karyn — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:35:21 +0000

oh gayla, i adore this shopping cart planter. this makes me think i should turn my bicycle basket into a mini garden to take with me where i go.

i’ve been collecting wooden trunks and tool boxes to turn into planters. do you have any tips on what to do with the inside? do you suggest lining them with plastic? Do you then poke/drill holes for drainage in the bottom?

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:29:53 +0000

Awesome planter. Maybe they pee from above?

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:10:40 +0000

I found one of these on my street last year and planted potatoes in it (lined with burlap, as in the photo above). I put a window-box of chives on the kid’s seat, and wired some planters onto the sides of it with lettuce and herbs.

There are photos on my myfolia page: http://myfolia.com/planting/2497/journal

By: alphatango

alphatango — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:02:57 +0000

I think that they probably are urinating on the side of the cart… and everything else after 2:00 AM.

Other good containers soon to be available is the blue/grey/green boxes that will be replaced by the new garbage and recycling bins. The new Toronto garbage trucks come with a robo-arm that looks like it is a modified Canadarm from the Space Shuttle. So, we have about a million of these square-cornered plastic bins to either recycle or repurpose.

Greg

By: Lesley

Lesley — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:51:55 +0000

I immediately started thinking about how I, an apartment dweller with no balcony, could wheel one of these things inside and out, like a baby in a pram, in order to have a little portable garden of my own. I could grow my daily salad stuff and wheel it outside for sun and air and watering.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:34:53 +0000

Juggling Frogs: I’m also *really* interested to know how their rules are enforced!

By: emily

emily — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:12:42 +0000

maybe Canadian men have exceptionally good aim and Canadian women can fly????

Toronto is sooooo neat!

the last time i was there in july i was amazed at the above 90′s temps and humidity “up north”

i’m happy for your viola’s that your temps are so mild! and there no way i could have let the dead strawberry leaf stay there…

i keep thinking i’m going to get busted for dead heading petunias at cafe’s and in city planters…..

By: Gayla

Gayla — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:29:15 +0000

Fern: Sadly things are not THAT different up here.

By: Fern

Fern — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:57:17 +0000

Fern: I think thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s a fairly old cart. ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s hard to tell from the photo but is actually very smallÃ¢â‚¬Â¦ I havenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t seen one like that in a long time. The carts in big supermarkets tend to have some advertising although I completely tune it out when I step into a big supermarket.

Darn. I was hoping that Canadians weren’t constantly subjected to advertising everywhere they looked.