Do I need to punch holes in the old pots at home to grow flowers?

In rural areas, the trough for feeding pigs or the jar for pickling sauerkraut are basically useless now, but they are used by many interested flower lovers to raise flowers. Needless to say, such old objects with vibrant and beautiful plants have a unique flavor in the courtyard! So, do you need to punch holes in the old jar to grow flowers?

Planting flowers in old pots depends on what plants are planted at the bottom. If you use jars to grow aquatic plants, such as copperhead, lotus, bowl lotus, etc. There is no need to open a hole. If you plant other grass flowers, you should open holes, because the roots of ordinary plants are not waterlogged and can't be soaked in water all the time, so opening holes can make the drainage good and the plants can grow well.

These old jars that used to take pickled sauerkraut are very strong and hard, and it is not easy to punch holes. If Huayou has complete tools and a special drilling machine, it is of course the best. It is easy to drill a beautiful hole. If there is no machine, Xiaomei suggests that you can press a nail on the bottom of the jar, knock the nail slowly with a hammer, and slowly cut a hole.

Be mentally prepared before smashing, because it is very likely that if a hammer goes down, the jar hole will not be opened, but it will split in half from the middle and become two and a half.

"Wood Engineer" likes to grow flowers. He raised an Elaeagnus angustifolia in the office with a teapot that had been used for hundreds of years. At home, he used an abandoned teapot to raise a pot of gem flowers (stone lotus) (see the picture below) and a pot of copper grass, with a green old altar (see the picture below). Reluctantly, perhaps, they are not perforated. Under what circumstances does an old pot used to grow flowers need not be punched in the ground? "Wood Engineer" according to his own experience:

The purpose of punching holes according to the habits of flowers and trees is to prevent waterlogging. If you use the old altar to raise aquatic wet flowers that are not afraid of flooding, such as bowl lilies and lotus flowers, and green alum raised by "wood engineers", of course, you don't need to make holes.

For succulent flowers (such as gem flowers raised by "wood engineers") and succulent flowers that are not afraid of drought and humidity, as long as the watering temperature is well grasped, they would rather be dry than wet, and water as little as possible, so there is no need to make holes deliberately.

From the cultivation form, indoor ornamental flower hydroponics is popular now because it is simple and clean. Find an old jar filled with water and nutrient solution, wash the roots of the flowers, and immerse 2/3 of the flowers in water for cultivation. Naturally, cans can't be perforated.

According to the cultivation technique, Elaeagnus angustifolia raised by "Wood Engineer" cannot be waterlogged. Why don't you need to punch holes in the old pot where it is kept? Because the "wood engineer" knows how much water to water every time, it won't be waterlogged. Sometimes there is too much water, and he will tilt the teapot half an hour after watering and pour out the excess water.