No need to spend a lot of money on planters...pretty much anything that can stand up to the weather and has good drainage will do. Good Will is a great place to find planters. I purchased a few for .69. In the top photo, I painted a little basket with chalkboard paint (I had placed sticky letters on the basket, thinking I could paint and then peel the letters off and ta da...didn't work - my letters shifting so I left having to paint the "Maters" on it)..still works. The popcorn planter was purchased at the Salvation Army store for $3.99. Probably could've found one less expensive, but I like it. Popcorn is my favourtie snack food and it is an actual planter. In the second photo, I painted an empty coffee can with chalkboard paint and then just printed the "Beet It" on with chalk. My beets are just starting to pop through. I made holes in the bottom with a can opener (several of them). I always put some newspaper in the bottom if there is nothing to stop the earth from falling out the drainage holes. The bottom photo is a little bucket of lettuce I planted from seed for my sister. I put some broken pieces of a terra cotta pot in the bottom of this (the terra cotta holds the water and then releases it back into the earth so it will stay moist longer). Anyway, that is it...really easy. Now if I could just stop finding containers to plant in...lol. PS: on the terra cotta pots...you are only buying them to smash them and put pieces in the bottom of a planter, so buy them at good will..no need to purchase new ones just to hit them with a hammer. Tip: I put mine in a gift bag and smash them, that way all the little pieces are inside the bag and I can dump the pieces out easily.
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