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Should I repot my store bought plants?
Ok, so I'm new to gardening. I've been reading about it for a couple years, and I finally bought my first plants today. Nothing special at all. Just two 12" pots with petunias and a couple other plants in there with them that I'm not sure what they are... Anyway, eventually I plan on turning a couple of old tires into funky little recycled planters, but for now, are my plants going to be ok in their store pots? They're not in the thin plastic WalMart shipping containers, they're in actual pots (plastic as they may me). But I'm wondering if 12" is too small for them and if they should be replanted immediately?
When I am ready to replant them, how should I go about doing so? I remember helping my grandfather when I was a kid put plants in the ground, and they were fairly easy, but they were always kind of like sticking a block in the ground. Since there are more than one plant in each pot, I'm not sure how to go about getting them from one place to another without hurting them.
Re: Should I repot my store bought plants?
If you hadn't bought them, they'd still be in those pots at the store, probably for a few more weeks. The KEY difference is that the store employees will soak them with water twice a day. If YOU can do that, they will live; but really, that's not a good reason to delay planting them. They'll be much happier when they are given more room to grow, so get them planted asap.
Good luck and please post pics of the tire planters for us! It sounds cool.
Thanks for the advice, guys. I'll probably get them planted in the next day or so.
As for the tires... Our neighbor is an amateur racecar driver, and he has a whole pile of used tires that are no good for the track anymore. I've actually got a lot of creative little summer projects for me and the kids to do with them if we ever get around to them. Since we don't have garbage service out here and we have to burn our garbage and sort out what cannot be burned, it would really help us (and the environment, of course) out if we had recycle and waste containers outside for everything we cannot burn or everything we can take to recycle so we don't have to burn as much. I was thinking of stacking a few tires up with maybe a large PVC pipe in the middle to make a "garbage can," one for each material of recycle and one for extra waste that cannot be burned. The kids and I would paint them and make them all pretty and such so they don't just look like junkyard tires, of course.
DH wants nothing to do with our summer plans. lol! He is teasing me so bad about the flowers today. I'm always so frugal and have skipped over buying even seeds because I don't spend a dime unless we absolutely have to, and I'm always on him about buying a Monster drink when he could settle for water at home or something or buying lunch at work when I could pack his lunch for him.