Hang on to your container gardening hats, my friends, I am about to open this post with one of THE MOST EXCITING LINES that a blog post related to container gardening has ever experienced.
Did I not warn you? Compose yourself and read on.
I swept up one too many shattered pots last year that something had to change. The plants fared no better: most recently evicted plants were thrown into a nearby garden bed to take root or wither, with the latter option being the more popular of the two. A majority of the sustained damage was from pots resting on a metal planting rack and one day, while thinking of nothing in particular, a solution to this issue popped into my head: bolt the darn things down. I'm not saying everyone has this problem, but maybe you have a similar real-life situation, maybe you'll read this question on a standardized test and now have the answer, maybe you'll be a better person for knowing it. Just sayin'.
Just a few words to the wise:
- Make sure your washer is big enough that it will be clamped down on both the pot and your surface (the red and teal squiggles in my diagram).
- Once you have your nuts and bolts locked down, put a little water in the pots and make sure they can still drain. If they don't, loosen the nut a little bit.
- I put the bolt on the inside of the pot so I could still loosed the nut from the outside easily, if needed.
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Genius! When you told me this earlier, I was worried about drainage. But looks like that was unnecessary!
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