Plant pots are containers used for growing flowers and other plants to display. Banking on history and even extending it till today, these plant pots are mainly made from plain terracotta without ceramic glaze, with a round shape and tapering inwards. However, plant pots are now often created from plastics, metal, wood, stone, and some other biodegradable material such as cardboard papers, brown papers, cartoon papers, or peat moss. That being said, there are also known household items that can be repurposed as plant pots and have, over time, served the purpose of planting as plant pots and work effectively like every other material.
Reusing old items or materials in the house is a cost-effective and sustainable way to give those materials a new purpose, and this often has no additional cost to ensure that it works. If you are thinking about being creative, why not go upcycling household materials for planting your favorite plants as plant pots. Having to purchase new plant pots is sometimes unnecessary if they are not adequately looked into. The discussion around reusing old items that best suit these purposes becomes essential. It is as simple as using an old kettle or plastic bottles in the garden. We will be listing materials you do not know about that can be used for this purpose, and for the sake of this article, talk about a few of them and how they can be of great help as plant pots.
Examples of such materials are colanders, tin cans, teapots, muffin tins, an old sink, and plastic bottles. Colanders are known not to be only helpful for draining, and they are also greatly used as a substitute for hanging flowers. Grateful for their drainage holes, this will help the plants and flowers get enough drainage they need. All you need to do is place a gravel layer at the bottom. This is to help prevent the compost from jamming up the drainage holes. Another material on the list above that can work well is an old sink; an old sink is a material that quite a several people have, and it is just laid there as waste instead of being a material that creates more dirt around the home; it can be as converted to plant pots, as it has plenty of depth that can hold your plants and flowers and you can use to produce whatever you would like to. The same thing that applies to these two materials as well applies to every other material mentioned above; just in case you have other materials not mentioned in this article you can do well to drop them in the comment section; you might be helping someone.
