Or what they could do is get large pot plates specifically for those size pots and with help of few friends tilt the pots or two tyre jacks to lift the pots and slide the plate under the pots. It would be easier than taking all the dirt and stones out again
All very good points. However, that wood looks too perfect, so it may actually be Trex or similar "fake" wood. Maybe that's how come she didn't bother.
Do a search for pot feet. This will raise the pots enough that they can drain into a saucer. The current design is going to turn the pots into a swamp and rot the deck underneath it.
Came here to say the same, and good luck to lift those pots now…. BTW: architecturally those pots are way too big for the proportions and the hight of this porch. On another note: can someone explain to me, why in those videos they always use that annoying sing-song speach? Is this how women speak in the US? Greetings from Europe
I had terracotta pots ruin the wood underneath them with the moisture they naturally seep. Mine were on terracotta drip-tray plates but of course the moisture seeped through the plates too because they were unglazed. The pot had a snake plant so there wasn't a whole lot of watering but the damage was still done. I would gently suggest placing waterproof material like glazed or plastic drip-trays underneath those pots, or another form of water catchment to safeguard the wood even if it's decking timber.
I agree with other posters about the water damaging the wood under the pot. You may also want to add some large annuals to the pots. It will take those hydrangeas several years to grow big enough to flower in such large pots.
I don't believe you asked, but since everyone is jumping on the bandwagon, I'll summarize: Geraldinepebdani offers the critique of the pots as being "Too gaudy." Bri agrees with her saying "They're too big." Karlforsyth-gray would prefer for you to "learn to garden before you" garden. Theresecook-bright believes you are planting twigs that need an adult plant watching over them. Angel-nerd felt the need to suggest using big rocks in pots, though he/she didn't sound too sure as to why. LilStampBug is out to save the dogs of the world so he/she is just making sure that "if" you have dogs (such as the one seen in the video), you know hydrangeas are toxic to them. Lindasimons wants you to make sure there is enough sunshine under your porch there in Australia. Jfallon similarly thinks you should try to add grow lights to the porch lights above. Snurple went snarky wondering "why r u wearing a nice white sweater?" Ms Kelani is definitely not a designer or anything but believes you should listen to her opinion that you need to move into an old home if you want to use terra cotta because she says it does not belong with a modern home. Loriolson thinks you got too big for your britches with those pots and says your porch is too small. SisterShirley is "SMH"ing you for being possessed and not putting a liner under your pots. Over a dozen others are very concerned that you have not acknowledged that you will rot your porch without pot liners. Still another 4 suggest at least getting legs to lift the pots up. Got it? Time on my hands & just trying to help. 😅 You're welcome.
With how well the step up blends into the deck, I would likely trip and face plant into the door, and can imagine most people would do the same if they aren't expecting it. I recommend staining the inside/vertical part of the step a darker brown, to make it more noticeable.
Little things make a little impression, big things make a big impression. These are going to make a big impression and a first impression. Absolutely perfect.
Oh she has an olla! Guys, that actually does solve the drainage issue! The water stays inside the olla and the roots grow around it, so the water doesn’t drain to the bottom. Great idea!!
Doesn’t stop the terra cotta from absorbing moisture from the environment and trapping it against your wood deck with no airflow. Even an empty terra cotta pot can cause this
Rosemary bushes can grow up to 4-5 feet high and wide. You might want to get a pot for each plant. Do make sure that moisture from the pots doesn't ruin your new wood porch!
Let me give you a piece of advice: Once you fill up the pot with soil, try to pour water enough so that you can re check it's level again, once it goes down Then you fill it again with more soul.
You need a tray or a platter of some sort under the vases to prevent moisture from seeping into this beautiful wood. It will also keep the water longer in the vase. If you live in areas with mosquitoes, it is crucial that you fill the tray with sand, to prevent them from reproducing in the still water. Gorgeous wood, beautiful work.
The pots are great....don't know where you live and your climate, but I had similar pots and left them out when the weather got cold...we had a freezing night and both pots shattered. The terracotta absorbs water which apparently expands as it freezes...resulting in breakage. Lost both big pots and a couple of smaller ones.
Your new front porch looks so beautiful! Congratulations, it feels so good to accomplish something and then love the way it turned out. Good for you guys!! God bless!😊👏👏👏👏👏❤️
Glad to see the comments warning about the porch rotting . Would be a shame after that hard work . Good luck on the rose merry ! You may need more shade tolerant plants
Terra cotta drain dish under pots so as not to ruin Your beautiful porch is so well done❤😊 great price for pots' huge score ! 👏 😂 Be Blessed 🙏 Make your Happiness ❤
I've been custom painting Terra cotta pottery for almost 30 years. My clients are avid gardeners and just like the gardens they design, so are their pottery choices and designs. These pots remind me of a project I did for a family that lived in Laguna Beach. What a fantastic price you payed. Well done!
That’s a beautiful deck, front door and those giant pots! Congratulations on your project! You could use some rooting hormone for those cute hydrangea cuttings; dip them lightly into the rooting hormone powder and plant them back in the pots. Do let us know how they grow and flower! 🥰
They look so cute! I suggest you to cover the inner part of the pots with chapopote so your pots will last a way more than the pots without chapopote. 😊
For big heavy o pots like old crock pots or ceramic ones use large blocks of foam from product shipment boxes. Fill up the bottom 3/4 then top with soil. It will save you money on soil and lighten the load.❤
Beautiful! Might I suggest upgrading to larger lights to go with your door, when time and money allows. We did that this year and it really changes the look.
Aesthetically, they’re very beautiful. You may need a dolly to lift those pots for saucers. Even glazed pots if they are not glazed on the bottom will ruin the surface they set on if there isn’t a saucer. I found out the hard way.😬😊💗💕
Cute pup. That's an awesome deal on those huge pots!! BTW, u can also fill 1/3, just the bottom of giant pots, w "stuff" like empty plastic bottles, and then do the soil. That way, your pots aren't so heavy that they become impossible to move. It's also cheaper and the plants aren't affected.
I’ve started using empty & crumpled water bottles in the bottom of my pots instead of rocks. I cover the hole with a generous circle of weed barrier fabric, add enough bottles to suit the situation, then follow with potting soil. I also added a loose layer of chunky pea gravel on top of the water bottles to help the transition from bottles to soil.
I absolutely adore the color of your deck, your gorgeous pots (what a deal!) and of course I also think your dog is adorable! At first i was surprised you planted hydrangeas, because the ones we always had grew to almost 2 meters each summer. Then I remembered that we are on different continents! Duh! I have no idea how they will do, but I bet they will be beautiful. I'm assuming you know that the pH of your soil will determine the color of the flowers? My grandad put something in the soil each year when he cut them back for the winter (I think it was in winter, but it's been several decades!) to change it from blue to pink, then back the next year. I just realized that I didnt research this, so I'm just assuming it's the same for all hydrangeas. Be sure and post when they bloom!
Fill big pots with light weight filler such as cut up old plastics pots , soda cans , makes it easier to move big pots putting wheels underneath helps also all my big planters have this kind of fill. My plants do not have any problems plus if drainage is a with decking you can wheel them away to a different local but terracotta with constant weep will rot this so fast
Coffee grounds to make acid soil for hydrangeas to have the most vibrant colors. We have winter with snow so I save my used coffee grounds in the freezer until I can add them to soil in spring.
There are plants made specifically for these conditions, and it ain’t hydrangea. Also, so many comments about drainage in these pots and how to do it without ruining your deck is spot on. Investing in the right plant is sometimes totally worth it. Gives it a chance to stay put and mature for a few years, and usually they thrive because of having optimal conditions. The pots are gorgeous as is the deck.
I hope your vases were seasoned,or they may crack in winter time. It doesn’t take much to bump them and there goes a small fracture crack that leads to a huge breakage.
Hydrangeas LOVE water (hydrangea = water vessel). Rosemary hate to be constantly wet - it likes to dry out and does well in very well draining soil. I say this because I think your idea is lovely - and I want you to succeed. It may not be possible for both of these to do well in the same soil and container.
Hydrangeas and rosemary? Aren't they going to be competing for space when they mature? Where I live (Los Angeles), rosemary grows into a very tough, woody, drought-tolerant, and dense plant. Also attracts hordes of spiders--egg sacs everywhere. The upright rosemary isn't quite so bad, but I've had bad experiences with the trailing/ground-cover type.
We have lots of cascading Rosemary around our property and they work beautifully with none of the issues you have listed. Plants respond differently in different environments
What I learned in these comments: 1. Some sort of pot liner is a must. 2. A lift mechanism of some sort is also necessary. 3. Rocks do not provide drainage. One day, these lessons will pop up in my head and I won't know where it came from but I will heed the warning. Also noted, not every bargain is a good deal.
That step-up got my attention, it is gorgeous. Have you thought of something decorative or paint it a little darker wood that will separate the first step from the second step, visually. From this end, it is barely noticeable, they blend into each other looking like one step instead of two. Just an observation.
Even with pot feet , the timber will rot, stain your timber , hopefully you have prepared your timber deck also , nothing is that easy think ahead . Xx
only about a years into the plant world, but i was wondering do you have to super overwater since the plants are so small and their roots probably dont reach very far? or is the stuff youre planting kinda just good with moderate dampness
Hydrangeas when watered with something acid like black coffee or tea( black, no milk) make hydrangeas bright red. Alkaline like egshells make the blooms blue.😊
Great pots! Rosemary and hydrangea aren't good planting companions though. Rosemary needs full sun and not too much water, hydrangea can tolerate some shade and needs lots of watering. I'd move the rosemary because the conditions under your porch roof are more likely to be suitable for the hydrangea.
Gorgeous Porch n Pots. Pls don’t my ruin your porch, place pot saucers. You can add the smaller plants n the front/sides, hwvr decorate w/larger plants, it’ll look stunning.
You should mix the soil/compost/drainage medium before putting it in the pot. You won't be able to mix it well enough inside it and it will do you little good in layers like that
You need a plastic liner under the pot so your porch doesn’t get ruined!
Absolutely it's essential
Or what they could do is get large pot plates specifically for those size pots and with help of few friends tilt the pots or two tyre jacks to lift the pots and slide the plate under the pots.
It would be easier than taking all the dirt and stones out again
Or pot feet to at least lift it
My first and only thought “I feel like the water from the pots is going to destroy the wood it’s sitting on somehow”
All very good points. However, that wood looks too perfect, so it may actually be Trex or similar "fake" wood. Maybe that's how come she didn't bother.
Do a search for pot feet. This will raise the pots enough that they can drain into a saucer. The current design is going to turn the pots into a swamp and rot the deck underneath it.
Came here to say the same.
Agree completely.
Yup! 3 pot feet per pot and they're good to go😊
Came here to say the same, and good luck to lift those pots now….
BTW: architecturally those pots are way too big for the proportions and the hight of this porch.
On another note: can someone explain to me, why in those videos they always use that annoying sing-song speach? Is this how women speak in the US? Greetings from Europe
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I had terracotta pots ruin the wood underneath them with the moisture they naturally seep. Mine were on terracotta drip-tray plates but of course the moisture seeped through the plates too because they were unglazed. The pot had a snake plant so there wasn't a whole lot of watering but the damage was still done. I would gently suggest placing waterproof material like glazed or plastic drip-trays underneath those pots, or another form of water catchment to safeguard the wood even if it's decking timber.
Wow, you wouldn't think with a snake plant since they need so little water.
Me "write that write that down" 😅
I agree with other posters about the water damaging the wood under the pot. You may also want to add some large annuals to the pots. It will take those hydrangeas several years to grow big enough to flower in such large pots.
I don't believe you asked, but since everyone is jumping on the bandwagon, I'll summarize:
Geraldinepebdani offers the critique of the pots as being "Too gaudy." Bri agrees with her saying "They're too big."
Karlforsyth-gray would prefer for you to "learn to garden before you" garden.
Theresecook-bright believes you are planting twigs that need an adult plant watching over them.
Angel-nerd felt the need to suggest using big rocks in pots, though he/she didn't sound too sure as to why.
LilStampBug is out to save the dogs of the world so he/she is just making sure that "if" you have dogs (such as the one seen in the video), you know hydrangeas are toxic to them.
Lindasimons wants you to make sure there is enough sunshine under your porch there in Australia. Jfallon similarly thinks you should try to add grow lights to the porch lights above.
Snurple went snarky wondering "why r u wearing a nice white sweater?"
Ms Kelani is definitely not a designer or anything but believes you should listen to her opinion that you need to move into an old home if you want to use terra cotta because she says it does not belong with a modern home.
Loriolson thinks you got too big for your britches with those pots and says your porch is too small.
SisterShirley is "SMH"ing you for being possessed and not putting a
liner under your pots. Over a dozen others are very concerned that you have not acknowledged that you will rot your porch without pot liners. Still another 4 suggest at least getting legs to lift the pots up.
Got it? Time on my hands & just trying to help. 😅 You're welcome.
😂😂 You make everyone sound so ridiculous 😂😂😂😂
Thanks for letting me know you enjoyed the synopsis! 😂
😂😂😂😂😂. This was hilarious to read.
@@CARATMom 😁 😆 Thank you! People are funny; I enjoyed putting it together.
I can’t believe no one mentioned how small the plants were and it will take years to be at scale to pot. Now we can check that comment off. 😂
With how well the step up blends into the deck, I would likely trip and face plant into the door, and can imagine most people would do the same if they aren't expecting it. I recommend staining the inside/vertical part of the step a darker brown, to make it more noticeable.
I was thinking the same thing. Dangerous ( can be)
Little things make a little impression, big things make a big impression. These are going to make a big impression and a first impression. Absolutely perfect.
Thank you so much and you are right, little things can make such a big impact!
Oh she has an olla! Guys, that actually does solve the drainage issue! The water stays inside the olla and the roots grow around it, so the water doesn’t drain to the bottom. Great idea!!
Doesn’t stop the terra cotta from absorbing moisture from the environment and trapping it against your wood deck with no airflow. Even an empty terra cotta pot can cause this
Rosemary bushes can grow up to 4-5 feet high and wide. You might want to get a pot for each plant.
Do make sure that moisture from the pots doesn't ruin your new wood porch!
I'd put creeping rosemary in those pots. They look so good
Let me give you a piece of advice: Once you fill up the pot with soil, try to pour water enough so that you can re check it's level again, once it goes down Then you fill it again with more soul.
Hydrangeas need full sun and you need something under the pots to prevent the porch from rotting right under them.
Hydrangeas usually prefer partial sun. In many areas full sun would burn the blooms.
I am OBSESSED with your door!! ❤❤
Thank you, you are so kind. I upcycled this door and it's become my dream door!
Please upload one more video when plant grows up 😊
lol
You need a tray or a platter of some sort under the vases to prevent moisture from seeping into this beautiful wood. It will also keep the water longer in the vase. If you live in areas with mosquitoes, it is crucial that you fill the tray with sand, to prevent them from reproducing in the still water. Gorgeous wood, beautiful work.
Love the sleek shape of the planters. They're already beautiful, but will be even more with growing plants.
👍 Wonderful terracotta placed. Nice video art work.
The pots are great....don't know where you live and your climate, but I had similar pots and left them out when the weather got cold...we had a freezing night and both pots shattered. The terracotta absorbs water which apparently expands as it freezes...resulting in breakage. Lost both big pots and a couple of smaller ones.
😱 wow! I didn't know that could happen! I live in Australia, the part of Australia I live in doesn't get too cold. ❤️
I've been wanting to paint my front door black, but I've been a coward. Thank you, you've given me the courage! Yours looks great🖤🖤🖤
Congratulations on an amazing find on those pots WOW
Dang THAT’s an amazing deal!!! They look beautiful 😍
Thank you so much ☺️
Your new front porch looks so beautiful! Congratulations, it feels so good to accomplish something and then love the way it turned out. Good for you guys!! God bless!😊👏👏👏👏👏❤️
Thank you so much xx
Lovely. And your porch looks nice as well. I Love border collies❤
You definitely needed raised liners or pot feet for drainage so you don't ruin your porch and hydrangeas need full sun.
My mom always planted her hydragea in full shade. Survived two moves & 50 years. She wanted the blooms to remain a green apple color.
Glad to see the comments warning about the porch rotting . Would be a shame after that hard work . Good luck on the rose merry ! You may need more shade tolerant plants
Those pots are awesome!!! Great score! Im jealous! May your plants flourish!!🌱
Looks grand. Hope they grow beautiful
Thank you so much lovely!
Terra cotta drain dish under pots so as not to ruin
Your beautiful porch is so well done❤😊 great price for pots' huge score ! 👏 😂
Be Blessed 🙏 Make your Happiness ❤
Look beautiful!
Great idea about the large rocks as fillers so not to use as much dirt. 😊
I've been custom painting Terra cotta pottery for almost 30 years. My clients are avid gardeners and just like the gardens they design, so are their pottery choices and designs. These pots remind me of a project I did for a family that lived in Laguna Beach. What a fantastic price you payed. Well done!
That’s a beautiful deck, front door and those giant pots! Congratulations on your project! You could use some rooting hormone for those cute hydrangea cuttings; dip them lightly into the rooting hormone powder and plant them back in the pots. Do let us know how they grow and flower! 🥰
Oh my god!!! That's an amazing deal on a planter!!!
It really is!
Great score on the pots🎉
They look so cute! I suggest you to cover the inner part of the pots with chapopote so your pots will last a way more than the pots without chapopote. 😊
For big heavy o pots like old crock pots or ceramic ones use large blocks of foam from product shipment boxes. Fill up the bottom 3/4 then top with soil. It will save you money on soil and lighten the load.❤
If you do that, place filter material over it, then the soil.
I ❤ your home but that look from your dog at the end was to die for 🐕💯🥰
Your dog is sweet!
Beautiful! Might I suggest upgrading to larger lights to go with your door, when time and money allows. We did that this year and it really changes the look.
$30 is a steal nice find 😊
Truly I am really happy for you can't wait to see you front when the plants are grown...Beautiful idea❤😊
Aesthetically, they’re very beautiful. You may need a dolly to lift those pots for saucers. Even glazed pots if they are not glazed on the bottom will ruin the surface they set on if there isn’t a saucer. I found out the hard way.😬😊💗💕
I love the front door, and deck idea.
Love these
I love your front door.
60 bucks!? No way! ❤
I love that you used clippings from your friends. Clipping can save so much money when growing plants in new areas.
Nice choice of plants
Cute pup. That's an awesome deal on those huge pots!! BTW, u can also fill 1/3, just the bottom of giant pots, w "stuff" like empty plastic bottles, and then do the soil. That way, your pots aren't so heavy that they become impossible to move. It's also cheaper and the plants aren't affected.
I’ve started using empty & crumpled water bottles in the bottom of my pots instead of rocks. I cover the hole with a generous circle of weed barrier fabric, add enough bottles to suit the situation, then follow with potting soil. I also added a loose layer of chunky pea gravel on top of the water bottles to help the transition from bottles to soil.
I love it!!
Beautiful! When can you do a cutting from a hydrangea?
IT'S JUST BEAUTIFUL ❤
These look super cute!
Thank you lovely!
I absolutely adore the color of your deck, your gorgeous pots (what a deal!) and of course I also think your dog is adorable!
At first i was surprised you planted hydrangeas, because the ones we always had grew to almost 2 meters each summer. Then I remembered that we are on different continents! Duh! I have no idea how they will do, but I bet they will be beautiful.
I'm assuming you know that the pH of your soil will determine the color of the flowers? My grandad put something in the soil each year when he cut them back for the winter (I think it was in winter, but it's been several decades!) to change it from blue to pink, then back the next year.
I just realized that I didnt research this, so I'm just assuming it's the same for all hydrangeas. Be sure and post when they bloom!
I love hydrangeas, grew them from small in my garden too❤
OMG soooooooo beautiful ❤
You are so kind, thank you! ❤️
Your porch is beautiful
Love it
Fill big pots with light weight filler such as cut up old plastics pots , soda cans , makes it easier to move big pots putting wheels underneath helps also all my big planters have this kind of fill. My plants do not have any problems plus if drainage is a with decking you can wheel them away to a different local but terracotta with constant weep will rot this so fast
Woo! Nice. It looks great
Thank you so much! Xx
Beautiful ❤
Thank you! 😊
Beautiful❤
Thank you so much!
I'm so jealous! You're so lucky you got those pots for a steel!
Coffee grounds to make acid soil for hydrangeas to have the most vibrant colors.
We have winter with snow so I save my used coffee grounds in the freezer until I can add them to soil in spring.
There are plants made specifically for these conditions, and it ain’t hydrangea. Also, so many comments about drainage in these pots and how to do it without ruining your deck is spot on. Investing in the right plant is sometimes totally worth it. Gives it a chance to stay put and mature for a few years, and usually they thrive because of having optimal conditions. The pots are gorgeous as is the deck.
Beautiful,and yes great purchase😂
fill half of your pots with nondisposable Styrofoam packing peanuts, or pool noodles then they won't be too too heavy.
Nice porch ❤
Hydrangeas will look beautiful there!
Without sunlight they won't flower.
I hope your vases were seasoned,or they may crack in winter time. It doesn’t take much to bump them and there goes a small fracture crack that leads to a huge breakage.
Hydrangeas LOVE water (hydrangea = water vessel). Rosemary hate to be constantly wet - it likes to dry out and does well in very well draining soil. I say this because I think your idea is lovely - and I want you to succeed.
It may not be possible for both of these to do well in the same soil and container.
Hydrangeas and rosemary? Aren't they going to be competing for space when they mature? Where I live (Los Angeles), rosemary grows into a very tough, woody, drought-tolerant, and dense plant. Also attracts hordes of spiders--egg sacs everywhere. The upright rosemary isn't quite so bad, but I've had bad experiences with the trailing/ground-cover type.
Yup... You can tell this is a newer gardener lol. Also hydrangeas LOOOOVE water and rosemary will rot in hydrangea conditions.
We have lots of cascading Rosemary around our property and they work beautifully with none of the issues you have listed. Plants respond differently in different environments
Lol, love the comment but I have been gardening for years but cheers for the advice
Can you tell me where you bought your ollas please?
Ohh my staffy was named Tchi as well ❤
That front door is to die for!
Thank you so much! We upcycled it from an old restoration warehouse.
Try adding grow lights to the porch lights above the planters ☀️
Jesus, $30 is crazy! That thing is huge!
Isn't it! Blew my mind!!!
@@TheEberhartsSo lucky to find it at that price. Beautiful
After all these comments…this is kinda random but your dog is so Beautiful❣️
What I learned in these comments:
1. Some sort of pot liner is a must.
2. A lift mechanism of some sort is also necessary.
3. Rocks do not provide drainage.
One day, these lessons will pop up in my head and I won't know where it came from but I will heed the warning.
Also noted, not every bargain is a good deal.
That step-up got my attention, it is gorgeous. Have you thought of something decorative or paint it a little darker wood that will separate the first step from the second step, visually. From this end, it is barely noticeable, they blend into each other looking like one step instead of two. Just an observation.
Even with pot feet , the timber will rot, stain your timber , hopefully you have prepared your timber deck also , nothing is that easy think ahead . Xx
only about a years into the plant world, but i was wondering
do you have to super overwater since the plants are so small and their roots probably dont reach very far? or is the stuff youre planting kinda just good with moderate dampness
You don't need to overwater 🙂 Rosemary doesn't need a huge amount of water so just make sure you water enough. Having an Olla in the soil helps.
Make sure your hydrangea get enough sun at least 3 hours everyday. They will flourish in partial sun or full sun.
This is what I was thinking! They definitely need some sun as well as a higher volume of water for healthy growth
So nice☺️💛💛💛
Thank you! 😊
Hydrangeas when watered with something acid like black coffee or tea( black, no milk) make hydrangeas bright red. Alkaline like egshells make the blooms blue.😊
That was a marketplace score!!!
Absolutely, couldn't believe it!
WOW!! 🤩 $30.00 a pot!? that's a steal!!
Isn't it!
How do those pots drain?
Use Potting Mix in Pots
Garden soil is for GARDENS, in the Ground
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Aussies are the best dogs
Great pots! Rosemary and hydrangea aren't good planting companions though. Rosemary needs full sun and not too much water, hydrangea can tolerate some shade and needs lots of watering. I'd move the rosemary because the conditions under your porch roof are more likely to be suitable for the hydrangea.
So jealous of that FBM find! Probably $600 each new !
You got a good deal for pots so big.
Omg I love your front door!! That's such a beautiful combo and shape! Was that custom or did you order it somewhere?
Gorgeous Porch n Pots. Pls don’t my ruin your porch, place pot saucers. You can add the smaller plants n the front/sides, hwvr decorate w/larger plants, it’ll look stunning.
Will enough bright sunshine reach under the roof?
Inspired
Please put a saucer under your pot
plant to protect the flooring from water damage.
You should mix the soil/compost/drainage medium before putting it in the pot. You won't be able to mix it well enough inside it and it will do you little good in layers like that
Wowwwww fill bottom with empty water bottles to bring up the level and reduce the weight of the pot