By Jim McCausland, Sunset senior garden writer

Photograph by Ebbe Roe Yovino-Smith for Sunset Magazine

I love big pots filled with plants. I just hate moving them, as I must every summer when I reseal my cedar deck. That’s why I was so happy to discover a simple two-person sling designed make pot moving easy.

Called PotLifter, it really works: just fit it around the container you want to move, put somebody on the other side, and the two of you can lift ergonomically, share the load, and get the container safely and relatively easily from point A to point B.

Invented by a Mercer Island gardener, it employs high-tech polymers that can hoist 200-pound loads up to 26 inches in diameter (it even works for rocks and log rounds).

You can find PotLifter in some retail nurseries, or order it from PotLifter.com for $29.95.