Crocks?

[girlofprey]

Right. So I swept the courtyard yesterday, or at least the square outside my door, because it turned out to be quite filthy/hard, and today, after other jobs, I scooped and swept up the piles of muck I had made and put it into plastic bags and threw it away. It's sunny outside, I have compost and half-price pots. I would really like to pot the plants that are living on my windowsill, even though I have to get ready for work tomorrow. I look in my Container Expert book on how, particularly, I might want to pot my plants. And it tells me I should cover the water drainage holes in my pots with crocks. Which turn out to be bits of broken pot. I've never heard of them or know where to buy them. I don't even know if you can buy them. Possibly I have to buy a pot and break it. Anyway. So that's annoying. I have to pack for going home tomorrow, and tidy up and possibly have a shower. And then on Friday I'm going to my parents' for the weekend. So it'll be next week or next weekend. With my crocks. Hmph.

I'm talking about plants a lot lately. If this is very boring I'm sorry. I'm quite enjoying looking after them, and the idea of having stuff in the courtyard. I'd quite like a sun lounger as well. Do you know how hard it is to find a plain, plastic sun lounger that isn't just like a hammock in the middle? Very hard indeed.

I'm going home this weekend, as I've said. My next few weeks is basically going home for Father's Day, a weekend in Nottingham, going home for mum's birthday, a weekend in Nottingham, going home for the Liquorice Festival back there. Then hopefully a week's holiday. We'll see how that all goes.

Comments

What a lot of crock

[thinkzinc.livejournal.com]

Dude, crocks aren't essential! It's just gardeners on the telly who have handy bits of broken terracotta pot to put over the drainage holes! I don't think you can actually buy ready broken crocks. Anyway, personally I just use largish stones from the garden, which works just fine :-) Most of the time I don't even cover the drainage holes at all! As long as there are drainage holes, excess water can usually find its way out, crocks or no crocks.

Mmmm, I love liquorice, a Liqourice Festival sounds looooovely!! *drool*

Re: What a lot of crock

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I thought not! I thought they weren't! You seem to know things about plants. Can you just put them in a pot full of compost? Is that okay? I would use stones from my garden, but sadly my garden is mostly concrete. To be honest, I don't really want my newly cleaned courtyard to get covered in water and compost, so if stones would stop that happening I'll probably try to get some from elsewhere.

Unfortunately, I quite hate liquorice, but my hometown's quite famous for it, and they put on a lot of stuff for the Liquorice Festival, and I enjoy going round it with my family. Would that I liked the actual stuff more.