Don't Throw Away Rotten Wood Stumps - Learn How to Turn Them into Flower Pots and Make Waste Useful

To grow succulents, gardening enthusiasts really go all out - anything can be used as a flower pot, such as rotten wood stumps, gourds, coconut shells...

Gourds, coconuts, rotten wood stumps... dig a hole and you can grow succulents, it's addictive!

There are actually plenty of old wood stumps discarded by the roadside or on the mountain. Attentive gardening enthusiasts pick them up and take them home to grow succulents - they look nice, provide good airflow, and even add some nutrients. It's an absolute bargain!

Growing Succulents in Wood Stumps

1. First, use electric grinding tools, saws, and other tools to carve a hole in the wood stump, then trim off the edges and corners you don't like according to personal preference;

Wood Stump

2. Fill the carved hole with some nutrient soil, vermiculite, and other media, then wrap the succulent roots with sphagnum moss that has been soaked in water and squeezed dry, stuff it into the soil, and then fill the surrounding area with sphagnum moss

Filling with Soil

After soaking in water, sphagnum moss becomes soft and fluffy, and once dry it quickly clumps together, making it easy to secure the succulents planted on it.

Growing Plants in Wood Stumps

3. If the wood stump is large enough, you can fill the entire groove with succulents, then lay some pebbles for decoration.

Succulents

Growing succulents in wood stumps means you don't have to worry about overwatering, because wood stumps are full of holes with good airflow, and sphagnum moss has excellent water absorption. The succulents are not prone to root rot.

Succulents

So, gardening enthusiasts, when walking on the road, you need roving eyes and the perseverance of a scavenger!

Gourds are usually made into water ladles - convenient for washing clothes, cooking, watering flowers, and growing vegetables. But there's a new way to use them that you've definitely never seen - growing succulents!

Growing Succulents in Gourds

1. Clean the exterior of the selected gourd, then draw lines and mark the area to be hollowed out.

Marking the Gourd

2. After cutting it open with a small knife, scoop out the flesh inside, then boil the ladle in water for a few minutes.

Boiling the Gourd

3. After heating, you can use a spoon to clean the inner wall very thoroughly. Once dried in the sun, you can fill it with soil and grow succulents.

Filling with Soil

4. Interested gardening enthusiasts can use acrylic and other paints to coat and paint the exterior.

Growing Succulents in Gourds

Note: Try to choose old gourds, and leave them out in the sun to dry thoroughly until hard, so they are less prone to rotting.

Coconut shells, with their round bellies, are naturally made to be flower pots, and they are very easy to place or hang!

Growing Succulents in Coconut Shells

Succulents are just so versatile,

Give them a hole and they'll grow beautifully,

Gardening enthusiasts, what other fun succulent pots do you have?

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