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The Benefits With Using A Planter Drip Tray

By Mary Nelson


Self professed green thumbs like to mess around with plant life and gardening implements, but they dont necessarily clean up after themselves. Thats quite a quandary in more ways than one. It could be that youre the one cleaning after their mess, or the one shelling out money to replace the soiled and damaged thingamajigs. All these problems couldve been avoided to a considerable extent had there been a Planter Drip Tray under the flora.

Growing and maintaining plants can be quite a chore. After all, they have quite a lot of demands and particularities. These freeloaders soil everywhere and serve as abodes for pesky insects. They have their benefits as well, but these are not evinced immediately right off the bat.

As it is, heavy soils may drain poorly and are susceptible to becoming waterlogged. In this actuality, waterlogged soil may die since theyre no longer able to absorb needed oxygen. The longer this ensues, the greater the damage to the roots. The roots decay and fail in supplying the greater parts of the plant, its stems and leaves, with water and nutrients.

Similarly, when the plants soil gets too dry, the fragile feeder roots die. And instead in being more productive in growing and in branching off with fruits and flowers, its energy is concentrated on repairing damaged roots. Therefore, the plant is essentially in a looping state of stagnation.

The last, though, can quickly backfire. After all, its a given that as soon as you lovingly water your plant, it will immediately regurgitate it down the potholes, in all its brown and soiled glory. The problem can quickly chain gang all the way to create enormous ramifications.

You should make sure that the tray is able to hold water, in that it has no leaks. It has to be at least 1 or 2 inches larger in diameter when compared to the bottom of the plant container. Preferably, it has to have some built in mechanism that would assist in its purpose, such as bumps and ridges, that which raise the pots bottom of the tray. Consequently, that would allow for the drained water to accumulate in the tray without having the pot sit on it directly, since that will not be healthy for the roots of the plant.

Lets just say that theres a water spill down on your tiles. You may walk all over it on soiled shoes and slippers. As a result, you end up spreading muddy footprints all throughout the patio into the inside of the house. There. That will actuate to more downtime and loss of manpower caused by unnecessary and completely avoidable cleanups. Instead, these times couldve been used for more effective and strategic activities. Juxtapose that with slaving away and scrubbing at some unnecessary mess.

Plant drip trays can be used to scoop up the wasted water trickling down the pot. Most conveniently, you can later scoop up the water at your own sweet time and spill them over more appropriate spill areas like the sink or the yard or the garden, anywhere but on your furniture and tiles. The cheapest drip trays, that which cost next to nothing but are still functional, will be able to give you an excess returns on investment. Thats hello to more uptime and free time.

Anyway, a drip pan has a whole smorgasbord of boons and benefits for your greenery. It ensures that you dont underwater your plants, causing them to die prematurely. Likewise, it makes sure that you dont stain furniture and some such thingamabob with soil residues, getting around hefty downtimes and needless scrubbing and laundering. Also, it also considerably ups the aesthetics of your plant as a whole, through accenting colors and boosting character and dimension. Certainly a trifle in terms of cost, but not in function.




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