"mmarteen" wrote:

I have a lovely ficus and I would like to plant it in one of those giant
chinese urns, about 3 feet high, with maybe some trailing low light plant
around the base.

I've read that rather than filling the urn wth soil, all the way to the top
you can put something else in until about half way up and then fill the rest
with dirt, to save money and weight from so much soil.

It sounds like a good idea, but you end up with a top-heavy
planter. It will fall over easily, and the money you saved on
dirt will be spent on buying a new pot.


I first thought of
those cornstarch peanuts but then don't those disintegrate over time?
Yes.

Tsu

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