Terracotta pot drainage

I recently purchased a few terracotta pots, for a couple of reasons…

• Weight – less likely to tip over vs plastic
• Look better than plastic pots
• Should allow more air to substrate

The plan for these was for my overgrown Opuntia cactus and also my seedling Ms Mars sunflowers.

Having purchased them I started to think the drainage hole may be so large that I’d lose substrate as I water the plants. So I started looking at options to prevent that.

I settled on buying some plastic insect mesh that can be easily cut to size to fit my pots.