2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Due to their excellent air permeability, resistance, harmlessness to plants, terracotta pots are very popular among flower growers. But if you have small children or pets (especially cats) at home, then even the most massive pot can not resist and fly to the floor. However, do not rush to get rid of the broken product - what if it comes in handy?
Plants Plates
With the help of fragments from the pot, you can give original names to the plants in the garden. To do this, on the outside of the terracotta remains, beautifully and vividly mark the names of the crops, and then stick the sharp side into the ground next to the required plant.
House for the toad
If the pot is not badly damaged, then just turn it over and place it in the nearest bushes. This will make a wonderful house for toads, which are very useful for the garden. It is advisable to leave a small saucer of water nearby. Tremble the slugs - the toad will show you!
Coarse mulch
Take a broken pot and grind it into extra pieces that will make an excellent plant mulch. It is good to pour it under container crops so that pests do not get to their roots.
Terracotta garden
Recently, one of the fashionable hobbies of Western gardeners has become the design of a mini-garden using the remains of terracotta pots. Such compositions will be an excellent, original decor for your site or even your home. The design depends on your imagination and has no strict restrictions. Children will gladly support this idea.
"Spilled" flowers
This way of decorating gardens is far from new, but it is still popular. Moreover, it is quite simple to create it: put the old terracotta pot in a horizontal position and dig it into the ground for about a quarter so that the wind does not disturb it. Then plant the necessary plants in the pot and next to it in such a way that it visually appears as if they are "pouring out" from the pot.
Terracotta drainage
Small fragments from terracotta pots are also suitable for drainage when planting indoor flowers, as well as plants for outdoor containers. Such a base will not allow excess water to accumulate at the roots, protecting them from waterlogging.
Original candlestick
A neat shard from half of a small terracotta pot can be beautifully decorated with paints or improvised decor. So it will become an unusual candlestick that can give your interior a special charm.
Mosaic in action
From the shards from a broken pot, you can make a simple mosaic. Where to place it - you choose: containers for plants, walls of a fence or house, countertops, patio floor, etc.
Protection for the weak
Sometimes very young and weak sprouts of plants in the garden are in great need of care and protection. They can be easily hit with a garden hose or rake. They can be protected by large terracotta shards, or a broken pot without a bottom, which can be used to enclose a young seedling.
Terracotta sculpture
If there are a lot of spoiled terracotta pots, then try to make some fun sculpture for the garden out of them. Such an element of decor will definitely not go unnoticed.
Durable carpet
Near garden water tanks and where the irrigation hose connects is often dirty from wet soil. To avoid this, such areas are concreted or covered with pebbles. But this can also be done with terracotta shards.
Shard border
It will be possible to fence a flowerbed with low-growing flowers or nicely surround a young seedling with the help of numerous shards from broken terracotta pots. What layer and width to make the border is - it's up to you.
House for gnomes
You can decorate unsightly areas of the garden with stones and a large broken terracotta pot. Create any composition from it that you like, for example, a house for garden gnomes or mushrooms.
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