I also start saving my eggshells to scatter around seedlings in the spring... Last year, I had a ton of crushed shells - it seemed to help a bit with annoyances in the garden

Carrie

I am saving all the juice cartons and deep trays that 6 1-quart pots come in. I use juice cartons for potting up dahlia tubers in early spring. I like those trays for sowing petunia. :-)

Last winter I made enough paper pots for next winter too.
I don't drink pop, but asked friends to save theirs for me. I like those 2 liters. :-)

I know this is way bad, but I bought keg cups on sale at Costco....for planting in totes.

I did recycle many WS jugs though and have them washed, waiting to go into storage until winter.

We try limit our plastic use and I also don't want to dumpster dive, so I am saving all the decent jugs from this past WS year.

It's amazing how this hobby fills in the gardening "lulls".

My mom drinks that walmart brand flavored water I want to say they are a 40 oz like u want token, she is saving me some of them. I rarely drink sodas but I love my cranapple juice we go through a gallon every 2 weeks, I save those for my fertilizing jugs but some will be used for this winter.

P.S I have already started some broccoli, cabbage, and collards for this falls garden.

We don't drink soda's, or milk, and very little juice, the juice we do drink comes in cartons. BUT I do have a cat, and she is very fussy, will only eat one type of cat food. And that comes in a kewl rectangular shaped plastic jug, heavier than milk jug plastic. I had great germination in them this year, so I am saving all my cat food jugs.

Silly cat, I have to confess, I do sometimes buy cheaper cat food, and as long as she sees us pour it out of HER food jugs, she eats it.

Jenny P

LOL Jenny P... That's VERY funny!

And AustingHannasmom..
I used the Costco Keg cups too. I almost brought them on coupon this week for the same purpose.

The chicken containers,the grape containers,the rughla,and any container from the service deli.

I have continued to save milk jugs but was thrilled this year to finally figure out how to get the seedlings out of them without cutting off the tops. So I'll have all of this years collection to recycle (and not have to prep - yah!)this coming winter.

Many of my clear plastic salad/spinach/cookie boxes are in their third year of use and looking no worse for the wear. Some of these "bottoms" are now serving as "flats" for plants I have potted up in 3" pots. I can get 6 in some - nice way to keep a small collection of plants together.

I put all my containers in the shed to use this Winter.

I used mostly 2 liter containers this winter. I got tired of seeing them stacked in the corner of the basement collecting spiders, so I tossed them out for recycling a few weeks ago. I still have two garbage bags full of unused containers that I have kept. The lids are still on so no spiders are getting in them. I've also been collecting small nursery pots. Anything under 1gallon is ripe for use this coming winter.

Instead of relying on HOS planting, I intend to sow fewer seeds in more containers and plant out larger plugs. That seemed to work best for almost everything I planted this year.

Just this week I scored 4 64qt broken bags of MG potting mix. 1/2 price on 3 bags (95% full) and 1 freebie (because it was only half full and they 'threw it in'). I'm squirrelling this stuff away for WSing come winter.
Kris