Tag: terracotta

  • Terracotta pot drainage

    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…

  • Sunflowers repotted

    Sunflowers repotted

    Like my cactus, I don’t think my sunflower seedlings would have been getting enough light on our east facing, sheltered balcony. So decided to move them with the cactus to the front, but I also wanted to put them into more attractive pots than ugly plastic pots. So they are now sitting pretty in some…