Organic containers - good or bad idea?

So when I went to the local nurseries at Lowe's and Home Depot I noticed a new trend in the garden department. Some companies have decided to help with the Go Green campaign by getting rid of the plastic pots/containers that you purchase your plants in and opting to contain them in a peat moss type of container with just a thin plastic wrapping over it. When you get the plants home and are ready to plant them, you only are supposed to take off that plastic wrapping and plant the biodegradable container into the ground. Great idea huh? Eventually the container decomposes and you get the beautiful plants/crops that you want and every thing is grand, right? Well, not so fast :)  I noticed that the zucchini plant that I purchased in one of the biodegradable containers was much smaller than the zucchini plants that I grew from seeds! I purchased the fully developed plant weeks before planting the seeds, yet I have been able to pick a few zucchini from the plants that started from seeds and I'm still waiting for the zucchini on the other on to finish developing. Take a look at the plants and you can see the difference in their sizes.

Plant w/ peat moss container. 

Large zucchini ready to be picked.

Plant started from seeds.

I have a couple of eggplants that came in the biodegradable containers and they are not really thriving so I decided to dig one of them up, remove the biodegradable container and then replant it. What I found out was that the container appeared to be restricting the growth and spread of the roots. And it did not appear to be decomposing very quickly at all. What I decided I would do next time is to remove the peat moss container, tear it into small pieces, place into the soil where the hole is for the new plant and then add the plant.

This is the peat moss container.

Last thing, I saw two blooms on the strawberry plant! Woohoo! My family loves strawberries! There's hardly ever a day that goes by that one of us is not blending up a nice refreshing, healthy smoothie which usually will have some strawberries along with other fruits in it.