Caps from soft drinks/ bottled water.

Thanks! Great idea vgtar :)

It's not necessarily free (unless you can "borrow" a few from a small child), but I used alphabet blocks. Like, the old-school ones made out of wood, with colorful letters and numbers on them. I picked up a set for about $15 locally, but you could probably find them in a thrift shop or at garage sales. I have eight big planters on my balcony, and I put 3 or 4 under each pot.

For large pots I use plastic drink cups filled with clay. The best description of my other idea would be best pictured
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The empty can next to the seed grown meiwa kumquat tree will get a citrus tree in it. The cut off can with the hole in its side collects excess water so it works well inside on furniture and provides an air hole to fit a blow-dryer to blow air into the roots. Roots need fresh air on a regular bases or the plants can stagnate and can even die in bad cases. The link below shows a meiwa kumquat tree grown from seed using this aeration / water collection system. It's growth rate double when I set this up.

This works with drink cups up to and beyond 55 gallon drums and keeps ground insects from working up in your potted plant.

Good luck

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Thanks everyone! I really appreciate all the ideas. I may try a combo of all as some pots are very decorative and exposed on my pool deck whereas others are tucked away within the garden beds.

I'm using slices of PVC pipe.

Another vote for slices of PVC pipe but any small chunks of wood work well. You can pick up one old used 2x4 free lots of places or for a couple of bucks and make 48 2" risers out of it.

Dave

With the start of this thread, I got to thinking of Ideas for my customers. I ask him, are you saving you childs baseball bat from 30 years ago or would you like to place those memories under you potted flowers. We used a dark ash stain and polyurethaned them. The perfectly round coasters look great, and should take him through to very old age.

As for the pots tucked in garden bed I use pots with no bottom in them and the roots pass right though while the container helps shape and boost the plant. The link below shows what I am using. You could use something much more attractive.

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Walking around the yard this morning trying to see where the most water puddles (we had a serious "frog-choking rain" here yesterday and today. I noticed a few concrete sprinkler head donut-protectors tucked behind some shrubs. They worked perfectly for my garden pots. Pretty pleased :)

My final 2 cents worth. Pennys stack of 3 in 3 place. Use gravity to hold them in place. Total cost 9 sense per pot

LOVE IT! I may actually glue them but that may be perfect for my pool deck pots. Thanks again!