Good idea, though I'd change the name to POOP POTS!

Terry

We watched that show awhile back too and thought it was a very good idea. I just wonder how much they cost though? I didn't see a price on their website. I wonder how long it'll take before we can see any of them in Canada?

We watched that episode too, the guy has sure put alot of thought and engineering into making them. The manure is composted before being made into pots. If I remember right, he said on the show that it cost about 20 cents to make a 4" pot, and he could sell them for about 50 cents a pot (don't quote me on that!). I think it's a terrific idea and hope he is really successful. Nice flowering plant that came out of his wife's greenhouse too!

Cool, $ clever idea, IÂd buy them!

btw, I wonder if the 'Dirty Jobs' guy is related to me since we have the same last name, he sure is amusing and he sure has to attempt many stinking jobs!

Sharon

Laurie, under 'Local' on his website there are links to companies that are selling the pots and clothing for them. Once company sells 15 pots for $11.95, if you order two or more packages of pots, the price drops down to $11 for 15.

I don't know if I would buy them on the internet, by the time I pay shipping and any other tax the government can come up with they are a bit pricey. I would buy them if I saw them for sale in a nursery I was in.

Syreeta

Here is a link that might be useful: Links of sellers of the cow pot

Thanks Syreeta for finding the price of them. Yes, they are a little pricey, once you factor in the dollar exchange rate, duty and shipping. They'd be well over the dollar mark per pot. It would be interesting to see how well they take off in the states. If they do well there, then they may move into Canada in a few years time.

Not a problem Laurie, I just had to remember which page I saw the prices. I think they are a great idea myself, cuts down on waste. I try to reuse as many pots as possible rather than send them to the landfill. Unfortunately my gardening shed is spilling out with pots. I was short last year so I asked around to see if anyone had some I could have. I have too many now. I'll have to go through them and get rid of some. But on the plus side I did get a bunch of tree pots. :)

One of the local nurseries (I'm not fond of them), has a pot drop where you can bring your pots at the end of the season for them to reuse the pots. I think that they should give you something for them, like the bottle depot does. A couple times I felt like raiding it as there were some really nice pots that people had bought from stores in there. Of course, they take them, clean them up and pot them up with annuals and resell them making a large profit since they didn't have to buy the pot.

With the cow pots, I would think once they get bigger and are selling alot more pots (i.e. in the hundred thousands), the price will probably come down. I probably would buy them once they get to the $0.50 range.