Pot Problem

I would like to plant lantana in this pot. It is 17" across (14" inside to inside) and 20 inches high. OK, I know it is way too deep, but I really want to use it. Can anyone tell me how to fix it? A false bottom, maybe? What would I make it with?

It is not too deep Sybil, just put a layer of rough compost at the bottom, the lantana will love it.

OK, Ms Frostweed, if you say so. I never argue with my guru. ;"))

Large pots heat up less and dry out more slowly. I never plant in small pots in our climate, bigger really is better.

I don't think it will work unless it's setting up right. Lol

I was going to make a similar joke but you beat me to it! :)

Darn phone cameras, mine does the same thing.

Hahahaha, oh, you guys.

Sybil- Ive had so much trouble with pics. Most of the time I'd have to stand on my head to get it right.

Sounds so like me. I'm sure there's a way to do it right, but I'm patience challenged when it comes to electronics.

you may be patience challenged with electronics, I'm just flat challenged with them. I learned to set the clock on my car stereo when I was 42 years old...

Now I have a new car stereo, well only had for the last 6 years, and I can't figure it out.

Oh my, Gypsi, we make a pair!

I save the bits of my broken terracotta pots to fill the bottom of pots that are too deep and it works well.
As far as jokes- I saw the title of the post and thought someone had a drug problem. :)

HAHA!
I thought you wanted to grow a plant in a horizontal pot!

That would be a pot problem. Poor Sybil.

I would fill it 1/3 full with a medium aggregate rock & lay a piece of weed block on it to keep your soil from filtering down. You will then have excellent drainage & little to no chance of the bottom soil going sour.

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I would put styrofoam peanuts in the bottom so you will be able to move the pot if you need to. chuckle.

Styrofoam peanuts may work, although the pot will then be top-heavy & prone to breaking when the wind blows it over... Depends on the plant in it & it being in a very protective location. Just my 2 cents...

Looks like it already is blown over. Lol Sorry I couldn't resist.

I used to use crushed aluminum cans with weedblock above.

Thanks all. You guys are great (warped sense of humour and all). That pot is top of my priority list this week. Last week was soooo full: trimmed two horses (can only do both hinds or fores at a time, because my bod is just slowly coming back since up from foot surgery), pasture spraying, HS graduation, brother's 50th wedding anniversary where we encountered "traffic from hell" on the way. One more horse to trim, and Back to Gardening!

I would absolutely love to be able to alternate my time between say.....two days of riding/training per week and the same devoted to gardening. It'll never happen. Sooooo much to weed. The vegetable gardens are easily maintained, but the house beds give me fits. I'm weeding this week and hiring grands to put down mulch (I love the red). I'm also getting a load of pretty rocks (can't remember the name of them, but they're smooth and very nice. I use them in a rock bed right in front of my house, because it doesn't drain well. The rocks have sort of sunk down into the soil, so I suppose I should have put that fabric layer under them.........hindsight, ha.

July 4th will bring in TONS of company. Can't wait for that, but it also means I miss a week or more outside while they're here and I'm recovering and cleaning afterwards. God is so good. Never a dull or boring moment here. Love it!!!

First pic is my rock bed. I wish it were morning, because the moss rose is beautiful then. I use moss rose in summer and pansies in the winter and lambs ear year round. Next pic shows how I'm dealing with rabbits this year. It's coyote urine in small plastic bottles with holes in them so the rabbits can smell it. I must say it is a problem getting those stubborn coyotes to pee in those little bottles, but, hey....... Third pic is GGD, Jennifer, 2 yo in my mater/bean patch. And last is Elizabeth trying to catch/ride Dakota (can you tell she's my great granddaughter?)

You have a beautiful place!!! Thanks for sharing the pictures!!!

Beautiful, Sybram!

The rock is what I would call river rock. But I know what you mean. They always attach and new and fancy name to the rock one used for landscaping. And then, when you go to buy more, they've changed the name or another vendor is calling it something else.

The great granddaughters and cuteys!

Thank you for your kind words. We love it out here. We don't have much land, but being way off the road and surrounded by trees on three sides makes us seem pretty isolated.

I think the name of the rock is Canadian or Colorado or etc? I know it, but it just won't come to me. grrrr.

Behind the rock bed bowls are hyacinth bean vines. I got seed from Frostweed, and now ALL my friends have them, too. I have three hitching posts in the side yard out toward the mater patch (which I never hitch to) with more of these vines.

Well, sometimes.............in the heat of summer............when I want to give the horses a good scrubbing, and I don't want all that water to go to waste, I will tie them there for their bath. Probably not any more, though, since I have those beautiful purple flowers there (which they would surely munch).

There is a kind of gravel called Canadian - squarish rounded edge pieces remind me of those layered coconut candies from back when I was a kid.

Beautiful photos. horses are bigger to scrub than dogs, that would be fun....

Beautiful photos. Great granddaughter reminds me of my next to youngest granddaughter, they are so much fun at that age.

Oh my! Now that's a lot of rock, w_r.

Yes, Gypsi, they really are fun. The two yo sister wants nothing to do with the horses (loved riding the last time), but this three yo can't get enough. It's just "lead line" riding, but she keeps saying, "Go faster, Gran, go faster!"