The idea of using pieces of broken flower pots as drainage material for planters has been around for a while, but should you try it? Some say no. Here's why.

Putting a layer of "crocks", or broken pottery, in the base of flower pots won't improve drainage – and may actually worsen it, says James Wong. By James Wong.

But even after a Bundt pan has outworn these traditional and semi-traditional uses, an old one can still be repurposed—say, as the Byrd Nest Studio blog suggests, as a flower pot that can serve ...

I sometimes say that folks who put rocks in their pots to improve drainage have rocks in their head. The reason may not be obvious, but it is based on soil physics. Imagine the way water moves in ...