Balcony stash with foam, which helps room flowers with tender roots

Foam is still a waste that is not recycled everywhere. Instead of throwing it in the trash, foam balls, or even whole pieces, can serve your houseplants well. Today we will tell you how to reanimate a delicate orchid using foam and use it as a baking powder and drainage.



Styrofoam balls do not rot, do not mold, and there are no bugs in it. Depending on the size of the drainage, you can break the foam into pieces of any size and shape. Since foam has no sharp angles, it can not damage the root system of vases.



Styrofoam is often used as drainage for cashpo. When the pot needs to be suspended, its weight plays an important role, foam does not add weight. In this you can see a small minus: if you fill the pot standing on the windowsill with a vase of foam, then it can fall under the weight of the vase.



Baking powder foam can be used as a baking powder, foam balls well pass air. So the soil is well ventilated and the plant does not rot. If you use this drainage instead of the usual ceramsite, then in winter the plants will thank you very much. When in the cold season vases are on the windowsill, the ceramzite itself cools down, so that the necessary temperature for the growth of the vase is not maintained in the soil and the root system suffers.



A whimsical orchid can be saved with foam. Most often, the flower dies from excess moisture. The rotting neck of the orchid (this is where the root system begins to grow) can be resuscitated by coating foam around the stem. So the orchid will be in the desired moist environment, and the neck will be saved from rotting.



Foam balls are loved by the owners of tender violets. Flowers feel better in well-flushed soil with foam. True, foam is electrified, and it is not very convenient to work with, but these disadvantages do not confuse anyone.



Styrofoam is very easy to identify during plant transplantation and replace. However, this need is rare. Usually gardeners use it again, since the material does not deteriorate or change. Have you ever used foam in gardening?