Your tricks for the balcony

More not to put at the dustbin your old sponges and to place them at the content of your flowers stand to retain moisture.

Watering pots and flowers stand: I gather the pots goshawks of a full bottle, content of the bottle to the pot I place a cotton fuse thus (old cut out tee-shirt) my plants are sprinkled by capillarity.
Catherine (Toulouse)

To make flower it is enough to sprinkle the ground with water to which one added one or two drops of milk. Water with which I rinse my empty milk containers is proven very effective.
MF

I put at surface my flowers stand barks (bought out of bag in the garden-centers, they are useful especially for the punts tapes) that avoids a little evaporation and I sprinkle less my flowers stand, moreover it is rather decorative…

So that the plants of balcony do not die in summer in my absence, I recover “perfusions”: planted in can with water filled (to provide for an air inlet to allow that water runs out), my plants are sprinkled drop by drop…

At the time one prolonged weekend, without possible watering, I filled of water of the bags (intended for congelation) which I bored and suspended on the top of the pots or posed with same the ground.

Think of the climbing plants on the balconies, in particular the clematis which give a beautiful negotiable instrument.

At the time it repotting to put at the top of the mould a good layer of balls D clay which will keep freshness with the foot of the plant. These balls can be mixed with the mould and retain L water has L interior of the pot. That N does not prevent waterings of course!
Daniele d'

So that my plants out of flowers stand (without water reserve) on a southern full balcony in the VAr do not die of thirst during my absences for ten days in summer, I place several mineral water bottles filled with water (without stopper!)planted well upside down in the ground of the flowers stand…
A ground stopper is formed then and let pass water when it is drained. It is very practical and I save my plants.
Christian

You can protect the roots of a plant out of pot by putting as a preliminary plastic at bubbles inside around.

Recover your old men , to put them at the content your suspensions to retain water.