I must admit I was very tempted. This container has had a hole in it for several years. In the beginning it wasn´t that bad and I just put a piece of roof tiling over it. But as the years passed the hole just got bigger and bigger untill there was no bottom left.
" The time has come to let it go," I thought. But it was a nice size and it was very old as you can see. Then I had an idea!
I got a piece of wire meshing larger than the bottom of the container and bent the corners upwards
Then I put a piece of cotton in to stop the soil from falling through the holes. I used an old cotton nappy ( diaper) but you could use a piece of sheet or towel.
It looks as if it is about to fall to bits but that is because it has been under the soil for about two years. I emptied the container especially for my blog.
Then I put on the bits of rooftiling (optional)
After that I put in the soil and the plants
You wouldn´t think it had no bottom if you didn´t know.
When I wrote this piece on my dutch blog someone posted that they had done the same thing with a ceramic container that had lost it´s bottom due to frost. She had placed the pot in a big saucer with hydroculture pellets in it and then filled it as normal.
As you see above sometimes when you think you have used something up completely you can still get some use out of it with a little alteration!
