Ontario Mom
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They aren’t that big and nursery pots are pretty flimsy…thin enough to cut off with a pocket knife. A family member is in he tree and shrub business so I know what he tossed just not which size. They don’t really have a second useful life. It must have had something on top of it or it could have easily flown out of the truck.
For those who are into gardening, and also quite frugal, those pots (while flimsy) do in fact have much life left in them after the initial tree or plant is removed. I myself have numerous things planted in them all throughout the garden. I also have a stack of unused ones in various sizes and just took a look at them. Some have permanent branding printed on the side (Proven Winners, Bushel and Berry, etc.), along with the type of plant they're used for (flowering shrub, or specific type of fruiting bush), some have their branding embossed on the underside, along with complete address, phone number, website and local nursery address, and some have waterproof stickers on them with the same type of branding.
The fact that he tossed them implies to me, there was some sort of identifier on them that he wanted to make sure was disappeared... along with all the other stuff he tossed.
No question in my mind, he was disposing of what he assumed was evidence, and not because they were flimsy pots.
jmo