Flower Pot Trick

Happy Wednesday! ok, Pinterest Addicts, should we start a Pin-aholics Anonymous club on here? haha. Well, I’m right there with ya. love it! {you can find me on Pinterest here}

I’ve been trying to do a couple of the recipes and cleaning tricks that I’ve seen on there, but here’s one I recently did that I really liked.

Flower Pots

flower potI needed to plant my red gerber daisies into some cute new pots, but….

eco friendly flower potthe eco-friendly pots I bought had HUGE holes in the bottom. I immediately thought of this pin from This Old House that used coffee filters in the bottom of their pots.

Coffee Filter Trick

coffee filter usesSo I put a coffee filter in the bottom of my new flower pots…

planting flowersfilled with dirt and planted my gerber daisies as normal.

And because any time dirt is involved, I had a very curious and captivated audience….

family gardenthe boys just go nuts over dirt and bugs! And they were oh-so-helpful when it came to watering the flowers. flower potI am happy to report that the coffee filter did a great job holding in all the dirt and none fell out the large holes, even after watering. {phew} So that Pinterest trick is tried and proven to work.

Do you put anything in the bottom of your flower pots? If so, what do you use?

Linda
Hi! I'm Linda, the craft addict behind Craftaholics Anonymous®, a craft blog. Crafting is cheaper than therapy, right? When I'm not DIYing something, I can be found taxiing around our 4 crazy kids or working out. Or shoe shopping... because you can never have too many shoes! Happy crafting! ♥
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