Having noticed a "pond" in one of my pots due to the heavy rain in the spring it's now anything to raise my pots just a bit. Often leftover bricks or pavers from freecycle etc.
A pond in a pot suggests the actual growing medium is the problem though. Water shouldn't gather for any length of time in a pot, regardless of how much prolonged rain there is. I can honestly say that's never happened to any of mine, and we certainly aren't short of rain here
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A problem with sawing up plastic pipes is the creation of yet more plastic ‘sawdust’ micro particles in the environment, so while it looks a cheap solution it may well turn out to be ‘costing the earth’ 😢
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wooden planters i just leave alone, as water seeps out easily. Other pots simply get a few stones placed under them to lift them up. Plenty of wee chuckies in my garden.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Water shouldn't gather for any length of time in a pot, regardless of how much prolonged rain there is.
I can honestly say that's never happened to any of mine, and we certainly aren't short of rain here
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Some people have 100 pots :-) .
And where else would you store the bricks left over from the extension built 20 years ago ?
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When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Other pots simply get a few stones placed under them to lift them up. Plenty of wee chuckies in my garden.