Marbles.

When they get mossy, put them in an old sock, tie a knot and put
in washing machine.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only where
people have learned to appreciate and cherish the landscape and
its living cover will they treat it with the care and respect it
should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.


For several years we've been using plastic humidity trays to
help keep
the humidity up around our plants and also to protect the
shelves they
sit on from water drainage. For most of this time we filled
the trays
with broken sea shells. This keeps the pot up out of the water
so the
water in the tray doesn't wick up into the pot. The problem
we're
having is that the shells get all messy with soil, dirt and
even algae
and as you can imagine the shells are really hard to
effectively clean.
When using a pot with no feet the pot does sometimes sit down
low enough
in the shells to wick water, and pots with feet usually have
their feet
hidden because they sink into the shells.

We've tried gravel, Turface and a number of other things but
don't do
any better.

My question is can anyone think of something better we can use.
I'd
like it to sit high enough that the pot cannot wick water into
the
drainage hole. I'd like it to show off the feet on pots that
have them.
I'd like it to be as invisible as possible. I'd like it to be
cheap and
easy to find or buy. It needs to be water proof and
uniform/level
enough to hold small or large pots (with and without feet) and
most of
all I'd like it to be easy to clean. Wood strips? Masonry
pieces?
Furniture blocks?
Any ideas?
wmcorcor


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