Save the plants

[willow236]

I know this is not an AIBU but it's important!

As I'm working in the profound supermarket and know the procedure how they deal with not so good looking plants ( let them dry to death or try to sell them for a fraction of their original price, but who's gonna purchase a bad looking plant?:( )
Then those plants goes to the skip, no matter how much life there's life is in it.
Its just very saddened business.
The plants are living being and are treated as a thing, so please- rescue any plant from a store that looks bad, because this is it very last chance to be saved before skip.😔
And in most cases those plants can be rescued with a care and loving hand.

I feel the need to speak about this, please don't walk behind those plants, they actually are the one that needs you most, as those fast pacing supermarkets are not good for plants and they need a good pair of loving hands.
Those plants are usually bounce back very well and you gonna have a good feeling of rescuing a living creature written off the list.

There's a few plant rescuers on the Gardening board

Plants are organic matter, so the waste management company used by the supermarket will take them to an anaerobic digestion plant. So they’ll be useful waste.

I rescued a few Xmas trees last year that were on the dead list and heading to the skip- got them, plant them and they doing so well now and every single time I look at them I feel good, because not being me, they would be wasted as a thing.

If you buy badly tended plants from supermarkets though, it just encourages them to sell more badly tended plants.

Better to leave them un-sold, and take your custom to a community garden market or reputable nursery.

Well, in my store they are wasted as a general waste- with a plastic bags etc- and they are thrown in to the skip- no more purpose 😟

Those plants, trees are not badly tented- there's just no watering existing or care whatsoever.

That is terrible if they are not properly composted. Can you try and get someone to at least deal with the disposal of the soil properly? So sad.

I rescue sad looking plants sometimes and they do often recover

There's nothing I can do about it.
I'm a small person to deal with that iynwim.
That's why I'm posting this.

Plants/trees are just temporarily living creatures in those supermarkets, either someone will get them while they still look presentable or they are going to the skip- no recycling nothing.

It's very appealing- there's probably a certain amount of them that are going to be composed but lots of them are not.

You're creating a demand though by buying them, it's really sad 😢 I would never buy a supermarket plant

That’s called “non-source-separated” and doesn’t mean that it can’t be separated at an anaerobic digestion plant.

I really don’t think that being part of supermarkets profiting from poor quality plant sales is the answer here.

Plants don’t have feelings - they don’t care whether they’re in your home, dying on a supermarket shelf or bring mulched up to be used for biogas.

So what matters is waste. If you want to avoid waste, buy and swap plants and cuttings locally and don’t encourage the wasteful and environment damaging extended supply chains of big supermarkets by giving them any money for plants - which it’s completely unnecessary to buy anyway.

I agree, every single time I see them drying to dead- it's just plain plant torture.

That's why I'm raising this issue, pay a very special attention to those plants.

I disagree about plants doesn't have a feelings- and probably any green fingered person gonna join me.

They are living beings.
Letting them dry to death isn't right.
Surely if you have a any plants at house you do care for it?

Just because it doesn't scream doesn't mean it doesn't have a feeling of being thirsty etc...

Trying to work out if this is a piss take with the hugely emotive language being used or not. They aren’t sentient, it’s a shame but as PP said they’re not going to care. And I say that sitting surrounded by my plants.

Well perhaps I do using an emotive words but so do think that at least some people may reconsider their purchase.

Even if only one.

And really I'm not a wind up, but every one to themselves.

Don’t be silly. Plants don’t have “feelings” they have molecular responses.

If you believe that plants have feelings, then why are you more bothered about a drying out potted plant than customer picking up the cut and murdered lettuces in the next aisle?

I do love wildflower, but some people just doesn't have the opportunity to see behind the curtain in those supermarkets.
It's not always my

Apologies half written post.

Cut flowers are dead immediately they are cut off imo it just takes time to realise the plant.

But I do taa as lento my plants and I can assure you the plants know if you care about them or not.

That's all what I'm gonna say, unless someone gonna call me liar or emotional sucker, which wasn't purpose of my topic😔

*talk

Thank you for caring about the plants.

Gosh, this is why I love Mumsnet.

OP, do you have weeds in your garden, and if so what do you do about/with them? Do you eat vegetables?