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Fantastic bags! (For rainy years only)
I'm obsessed with grow bags, or fabric plant pots - whatever you want to call them. I've purchased a fairly ridiculous amount of them over the past year. After trying several brands (all of them were great, I don't have anything bad to say about any of them really) I'd have to say this is my favorite brand. The quality is great and the price is too good to pass on. I've purchased multiple sizes, and multiple packs of several sizes. The fabric is plenty thick and I like that the handles don't stand up and get in the way. Some pots have taller handles that stand up higher than the top edge of the bag. They're great for carrying the bag but also tend to fall in on the plant. It's really a matter of personal preference.
Keep in mind, the "gallon" measurement of plant pots isn't an actual gallon. I've seen many reviewers on different bags complain about this issue. I used to try to understand it but gave up, figured it's not worth trying to understand especially since there doesn't seem to be a "standard" on dimensions (for example, I have 50 3-gallon plastic nursery pots and there are at least 10 different sizes in the mix). Measuring solids (soil for example) in gallons is subjective anyway so don't let yourself get hung up on that word. If you filled one gallon pot with sand and one with mulch-like soil amendment, you'd fit more cubic feet of sand in the sand pot than you would soil amendment in its pot. It's not as straight forward as a gallon of liquid. A gallon of water and gallon of milk will both be the same size and same volume.
Edit: I've also purchased the 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 and 15 gallon bags from this seller. After reading so many reviews about the volume not matching the bag size I decided to do an experiment measuring my soil mixture into 5 gallon buckets before dumping it into the grow bags. The 10 gallon grow bag held 2 full 5 gallon "Homer" buckets of soil mixture with room for plants and topped with mulch.
Edit #2: These are fantastic when you get an average to above average amount of rainfall. If you end up with a summer that's above average for heat and DRY (no rain for weeks), these are NOT good at all. It's impossible to keep them saturated enough for plants to do well. Even watering multiple times a day, the plants dried out and died. The bags also dry rotted and ripped apart when I tried to move them. The only plants that did well were the ones that I was able to fit into old kiddy pools, plastic saucers or dish pans. Something that I could fill with water and let the plants soak up water. I'm most disappointed by the dry rot though. I expected to be able to use the bags for more than one season. Oh well. Live and learn.
April 2019 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase