I think anything looks better when it's aged -- from vintage clothes to thrift store furniture, right on down to my terra cotta pots.  So far I've had decent luck thrifting and filching pots from my grandma that have a nice patina to them.  However, there are a handful of Home Depot pots in my yard that drive me crazy.  They're too new looking.  It's like when you get a brand new pair of shoes and all you want is for them to look worn in.  I saw this picture in Living Etc. last weekend and became instantly jealous of this couple's collection of aged terra cotta.


It reminded me that a while back I saw an article in Martha Stewart magazine (to which I do not subscribe... must have been at the dentist) where she highlighted a few different methods, most of which are listed here and one additional method using lime is here.  I want to try to tackle this project this weekend and am thinking the fertilizer method sounds the easiest.  Yogurt sounds gross and I don't want to do anything that requires sanding because I'm lazy.  Hopefully when all is said and done, I'll have pots that look like this:

 and not this:

Has anyone tried any of these methods?  Which work the best?  Which are a waste of time?  Better yet, can I just have your pots that are already patina'd?