Large pots drainage?

 It is recommended that broken pieces of clay pots are placed at the
bottom to help drainage. As clay pots are rarer then hen's teeth what do
Urglers use at the bottom of their pots, and how much material to they use?
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These days I think broken up polystyrene is recommended.
Although I haven't any polystyrene around at the moment.
I think the clay pot thing was from when they were cheap, in common use, and
often broken so it was a readily available material.

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We use broken polystyrene as well BUT, there is a snag with it. The
polystyrene is light, consequently the pot can become top heavy and blow
over.

Some heavy weight right in the bottom, a couple of broken bricks, then
polystyrene works.

Of course it depends on the size of the pot, its height, what you are
putting in it and how high it's going to grow and more important, how big
the base of the put is. Narrow base, tall pot, wide top and you can expect
trouble

Mike
Been there, done that, staked the pots

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the base of the put is :-(( ........ the base of the POT is ;-))
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Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive.

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Any broken crockery, tiles, stones etc will be just as good.

Steve