As of: March 6, 2024, 2:01 p.m
By: Sarah Isele
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Flower pots are an eye-catcher in the garden.
They can quickly become dirty due to wind and weather.
Tried-and-tested home remedies will make you shine again.
The work on a beautiful garden starts early in the year.
Prune trees, prepare beds and lawns for new seeds, prefer vegetables - and various flower pots also need to be cleaned.
After all, they should be able to accommodate the beautiful plants in their full splendor and cleanly in the spring.
Fortunately, there are tried and tested home remedies for cleaning flower pots.
How do you clean calcified flower pots?
How do you clean flower pots with soda?
How do I disinfect my flower pot?
How do you get terracotta pots clean again?
How do I remove verdigris from terracotta?
How do you clean calcified flower pots?
Whether plastic, ceramic, porcelain, clay or terracotta, flower pots come in all materials, sizes and shapes.
It's annoying when the flower pot gets dirty over the course of the year because it's left outside day and night.
Not only soil can settle on the pots, but also lime or verdigris.
Since you don't want to have a dirty pot in your otherwise beautiful garden, in addition to all the other garden preparations that need to be done in spring, you have to clean the pots.
For light dirt, just a cloth and warm, running water can help.
For stronger ones, using some home remedies such as dishwashing liquid, vinegar essence or citric acid can help.
How do you clean flower pots with soda?
If you want to use your pots for a long time and don't want your plants to be attacked by fungi, you should clean your pots regularly.
To do this, all soil is removed from the pots and the pots are cleaned inside and out with a hard brush and soap or soda solution.
This should be sufficient against the worst fungal infestations.
When cleaning with soda, it is also recommended to prepare an immersion bath of soda and warm water.
One teaspoon of soda is enough for one liter of water.
Soak the pot in it for a few hours and then rinse thoroughly.
However, if limescale has formed on the plastic, ceramic or porcelain pots, a vinegar solution will help.
Vinegar essence is not only practical for cleaning, there are (at least) seven other ingenious uses in the household.
For stubborn stains, the solution is initially left in the bucket for a long time.
It is also recommended to use a rough sponge here.
The pots are then rinsed thoroughly with clean water and dried well.
These home remedies are helpful for cleaning a flower pot:
Dishwashing liquid
soda
Vinegar essence
citric acid
baking powder
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How do I disinfect my flower pot?
But you can't just clean flower pots with these relatively obvious home remedies.
Potato water also has immensely good cleaning power.
Cleaning the flower pots is also intended to prevent mold, fungus or disease infestation of a plant.
But if mold or diseases have already established themselves, even the home remedies no longer help.
If there is massive mold infestation or disease on the plants, we recommend cleaning with bleach to disinfect the material.
To do this, use a 10 percent disinfectant solution and wipe off the residue inside and outside with a sponge.
Rinse well with warm water and dry.
How do you get terracotta pots clean again?
Terracotta pots are plant pots made of fired clay.
Depending on the source material, their color can vary from ocher yellow to carmine red.
Terracotta flower pots often develop a gray-white patina within just one season.
This coating is lime efflorescence.
The lime dissolved in the irrigation water penetrates the pores of the vessel wall and is deposited on the outer wall because the water evaporates there.
Opinions differ about these limescale deposits.
Some like her look, others hate it.
If the appearance bothers you, you can easily remove it.
To do this, it is enough to soak the terracotta pot overnight in a solution of 20 parts water and one part vinegar essence or citric acid.
This means that the deposits can be easily removed with a brush the next day.
(If you don't want to spend money on expensive pots, you can get pots and even plants for free this way.)
How do I remove verdigris from terracotta?
Verdigris is algae or other simple plant life forms.
They primarily settle where they are sufficiently supplied with water and light.
When it comes to verdigris on terracotta pots, you don't have to resort to as harsh measures as you do when dealing with limescale deposits.
After an initial rough cleaning with a water hose, we continue with a hand brush.
It also helps to add a little dishwashing liquid or soapy water to warm water.
The brush is repeatedly wet with water and the verdigris on the terracotta pot is scrubbed off.
Since a green film forms, it is important to rinse off the verdigris residue again and again.
After some scrubbing and rinsing, the pots are like new again.
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