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drainage holes at the bottom of the planters

hakan serthakan sert Posts: 2
in Problem solving

Hello

I bought couple of plastic planters with strange drainage designs at the bottom. I will grow Geranium. But I need your help to prepare the planters.

windowboxes:
There are only two cones ( 2cm ) at the bottom and  I wondered what these two cones are for. Should I drill them as drainage?

Hanging pot:

. what is the usage of large drainage holes at the bottom of the hanging plastics planter. I put some soil in it but the soil comes out of these large holes. 

I talked to seller if I left some part of them at the store but he says that is all.

thanks in advance for your responses.

Hakan

 

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  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543

    I think with the 'cones' you drill at the top so the bottom of the box acts as a resevoir and water drains out once it reaches the height of the drilled holes (I may be wrong but that's what I have always thought!!).

    As to the hanging pots are the large holes possibly for planting?

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  • StevedaylillyStevedaylilly Posts: 1,102
    With your hanging pots, place some small section of polystyrene packaging to the bottom of the pots to reduce the water and compost loss



    I presume the cones on the window boxes are as madpenguin states they act as a reservoir for your plants
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,087

    Agree about the cones.  I use fibrous mats to line hanging baskets with a piece of plastic cut from a compost bag inside to come up no more than halfway up teh sides.  The fibrous liner - sold for purpose in good garden centres - holds in the compost and the plastic sheet creates a reservoir effect so they retain water and don't dry out too fast.

    Be aware though that hanging baskets still need watering morning and evening in hot spells and once a day throughout the height of summer.

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  • hakan serthakan sert Posts: 2

    Thanks for your reponses I prepared them creating  reserrvoir at the bottom. ( with broken clay pots & Pumice.) hopefully it will work out 

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