Salt crust on clay pots?

 Has anyone figured out how get the salt crust off their
clay pots? I've tried white vinegar. It didn't work.
Maybe I didn't do it right.

Will a normal springtime soaking pots in a wheelbarrow
fill of water with a splash of bleach make it easier to scrub
that salt off?

   TIA,

   Confused (as usual) in Alaska

--
Bedouin proverb:  If you have no troubles, buy a goat.

 

I don't know what you mean by salts. I would guess that it is calcium
carbonate but vinegar should take care of that, unless it is too
diluted. Try squirting the vinegar directly on the crystals. Otherwise,
if it is regular salt, water should dissolve it.

Good luck,
- Bill
Cloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)

 wrote:


Buy a wire brush and use the vinegar or even a product called
Barkeepers Friend in powder form.  It is a stainless steel
cleaner/scour.  Stop using Miracle Grow and switch to liquid seaweed
to fertililze potted plants and you won't have the salt build up.  

 

steel wool on glazed or plastic pots?

rob

 wrote:


I never said steel wool.  But yes, a wire brush on clay pots which is
what the original poster was asking about, not plastic or glazed.