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Climbers in pots / damp ground

  • 14-05-2021 9:33pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭


    Folks,

    Back wall gets water logged in wet weather so plants find it hard to take. I was thinking of using large pots with the bottom cut out then plant half way of the pot dept.

    Any thoughts or recommendations?

    Cheers


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,095 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    If the ground is as wet as you suggest then that solution would not help. The pots would effectively have no drainage and would end up just as wet as the surrounding ground. You could use pots but leave them as they are and even lift them very slightly (you can get little 'feet' that slip under the pot to lift it off the ground) to ensure they have good drainage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭Hocus Focus


    Presumably this is the boundary wall of the garden rather than the back wall of the house.
    It might be beneficial to find out why the water will not drain away. Perhaps there might be something easy and inexpensive that you can do, to improve the situation.
    You can see that the water just comes to a certain height when it rains. What's holding it in? If you can see what's blocking it you have the answer, for instance knocking a small hole in the wall below ground level.
    Alternatively, why not add a quantity of good draining topsoil in this area to raise the ground level above that of the inundation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,548 ✭✭✭siochain


    yeah it's the back boundary wall. I would guess it's the quality of the soil causing the problem. I went for pot's on cobble blocks in the end.
    cheers


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