Potted plants arePart of home decor, which sometimes require repotting, which creates mess, and the following hack allows coffee filter flowers to drain easily. This trick can make plant care easier and help keep your home clean. In addition, lining the inside of flower pots with coffee filters helps flowers grow faster and thrive properly in home conditions.
Store flowers and houseplants optimally through drainage with a coffee filter
The best thing about these types of filters is that they allow water to pass through without leaking dirt or potting soil. Placing a coffee filter between your plant's dirt and the pot's drainage hole will prevent dirt from escaping. If dirt and water flow out of the hole, the flower pot can become clogged, making plant care difficult. This can accordingly lead to root rot, which could kill the plant. Not only that, but dirt flowing out with the water makes the surrounding area look dirty. Some people place rocks in the bottom of their pots to avoid these problems, but a coffee filter makes this task much easier. Water flows out unhindered, air can flow in unhindered and dirt stays away.
Coffee filters maximize soil for the plant
Potted flowers and houseplantsneed enough soil to spread their roots and draw water from them. Accordingly, a coffee filter can help flowers thrive better than gravel because it allows the plant to have as much soil as possible in the pot. Stones also do not take up the space of the ground and do not displace the soil. Because coffee filters are absorbent, they retain some moisture with each pour. This moisture is not enough to cause root rot. This allows a little more time between waterings and prevents drying out if you miss watering.
Properly transplant flowers using coffee filters
When it's time, yoursRepot plant, either because it is root bound or you want to change pots for decorative purposes, the coffee filter will help keep loose soil from spilling all over your workspace. You can leave this filter on even when you place your plant in its new pot. However, you may want to loosen the root ball a bit first, as it can eventually dissolve. Afterwards, don't forget to line the new flower pot with a coffee filter.
However, disposable coffee filters are not particularly cheap. Therefore, you might as well use these for their original purpose of filtering coffee. Next, add the coffee grounds to the compost and use the dirty filter to cover the bottom of the plant pot. You don't even need to rinse because the coffee grounds are not poisonous and the dirty coffee filter cannot harm flowers. You will soon find that a previously used filter works just as well as a new coffee filter.
Recycle newspaper instead of coffee filters
Permeable waste paper such as a piece of newspaper can also be a working soil filter. This would be another eco-friendly and cheaper solution for your plants. To do this, you can cut out a stack of small newspaper squares that are about 10cm x 10cm and keep them on your flower bench. You could even try a piece of old rag or a leftover piece of window screen: anything that lets water through but keeps soil out. If you can't find anything to recycle at home, you can use a sheet of paper towel or even toilet paper. Both would be cheaper than a coffee filter and just as effective at keeping the soil in the pot.
