Terrace Gardening Advantages And Disadvantages

Cactus with flower pots

The flowerpots are very beautiful objects, but the truth is that they cannot be used to put any type of plant, since in addition to having advantages that we will see now, it also has important disadvantages that we must bear in mind.

So, before buying a few, we recommend you read this article to learn more about them, the flower pots.

Table of Contents

1 What are they?
2 What are the advantages and disadvantages?
- 2.1 Advantages
- 2.2 Drawbacks

What are they?

Pot cover

Flowerpots are, as their name suggests, some containers inside which the pots are placed. As with these, they come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. For example, we can find them made of glass, plastic, ceramic, wood, ...; round, oval, vase-shaped, ...; pink, yellow, white, black, transparent, etc.

Depending on the size and size of a plant, the one that is most desired is chosen. But we often forget the most important thing:

What are the advantages and disadvantages?

Advantages

Let's first talk about the advantages of using flowerpots:

They are clean: when we water, the water stays inside them, so the soil remains pristine.
They are decorative: that's what they were made for and it's something they fully comply with. They are very, very pretty, and they look great in any corner.
They are easy to maintain: Except for those made of wood or rattan that do require a little more maintenance (treatments with wood oil so that they do not spoil and remove the dust with a brush frequently), the rest just simply wipe them from time to time.

Drawbacks

And now let's move on to the drawbacks, which are very few but important:

Increases the risk of rot: plants (except if they are aquatic or riverside) do not like to always have their roots in direct contact with the water. If we do not remove the water that is left over ten minutes after watering, the cover will end up causing death by suffocation.
Increase the risk of infection: plants that are not taking good care of themselves are very attractive to insects and also to fungi, which will not hesitate to kill them. The humid environment created by the cover pot is ideal for these fungus tenants.

Potted plant

In short, I would only recommend using the covers if we have plants that want a lot of water, or if we are people who will not have problems remembering to remove the water that is left over after watering.

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