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Keep Flower Pots from Leaking Soil

Place a coffee filter or SCOTT® Towel, cut to size, in the bottom of an empty flower pot. Then add your small stones, followed by the fertilized soil, the plant and then the mulch. You won't see soil leaking out of the bottom of the pot when you water the plant.

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Wonderful idea!!!!!

Brenda
Iola, TX

This is a great idea!! I'll remember to try this next time I transplant to a bigger pot. I use the round plastic take-out containers(tops and bottoms) to put under the pots to catch the water...some are really sturdy and you can still recycle when they get too old! Pie containers from the bakery make good ones too. Helen

Deidra
Shinnston, WV