Raels wrote:

Hi all,

Hope our week is getting of to a fine start.

Does anyone use ice cubes of water (or anything else for that matter) as a
way of watering their pot plants, garden, lawn?

Perhaps you do it when you're away? Perhaps your put icecubes in your
hanging baskets?

Sorry, but this is either looney tunes or not well thought out.

1) Ice cubes melt within a few hours. So of little value over time. So
you need more ice and less surface area.

2) If you part a solid block of ice, say frozen 2 litre soft drink
bottle, you will need to make sure that it doesn't touch the plant,
otherwise you are going to freeze/burn the plant tissue and kill it.

3) What is the long term effect of immersing your plants roots in ice
cold water?

4) What ever happened to that fad of just filling up 2 litre/etc soft
drink bottles, inverting them and driving the top into the soil? Hmm, if
I could find a decent ginger beer, I might be inclinded to consume a few
bottles with ice cream in the cause of trying this out for myself.