With the JackPot's superior drainage, the need for expensive pre-mixed soils is eliminated. Here, a Botanics Wholesale employee is starting out with a yard of topsoil.
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Preparing the JackPot to be filled; sometimes using an old plastic pot of similar diameter with the bottom removed as a support (in this case using a 25-gallon plastic pot for a 30-gallon JackPot), allowing one employee to accomplish the fill.
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Moving the filled JackPot into place. (Note the container appears to be filled, but has a "template container," the same size as the step-up plant to be planted, in the center, which keeps the planting hole from being distorted when the JackPot is being moved into its final location.)
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