Chicken feathers, usually an unwanted byproduct of poultry processing, may have a more valuable future as an ingredient in biodegradable flower pots, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS ...

Buy a plant or flowers and more often than not it will come in a pot made of black plastic that you’ll get rid of once you replant your new purchase. But that black plastic is incredibly hard to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You can make your own plant pots by soaking strips of cardboard and shape them around a container size of choice!

If you attended one of the many plant sales that occurred in Reno last week, you may be faced with an issue every gardener confronts – what to do with the empty plant pots left after transplanting.

Biodegradable flower pots are one way to begin reducing pollution cased by gardening products. Most plastic pots don't have a stamp indicating that they are recyclable so we either put them out for ...

Coffee grounds work great as fertilizer and insect repellant in the garden. You can combine all these uses into a biodegradable flower pot that can go from the windowsill to the ground without ...

The late and legendary football coach, Vince Lombardi, once said: “Mistakes are lessons by which we learn. When you learn the lesson, forget the mistake.” That quote has stuck with me since I first ...

The problem with most biodegradable plant pots is that they don’t actually biodegrade. Usually made of wood or peat fibers, most of the pots also are treated with wax to keep them whole until they’re ...

Biodegradable containers are emerging as sustainable alternatives to conventional plastic pots in horticultural production, addressing both environmental pollution and the logistical challenges of ...

Imagine a future where plants are grown exclusively in biodegradable pots. That future is now for Bluestone Perennials. This mail-order nursery in Ohio now ships all of its plants in 3.5” x 4’ coir ...