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Post by Cherry on Jan 31, 2011 9:41:53 GMT
My very cheap terracotta pot (99p in Focus sale) has lasted fine, even though the plant in it has died and the soil was still icy yesterday. I am not sure what was in there. It might have been Agapanthus because they are thongy roots.
Last winter my expensive terracotta pots succumbed to the weather. It looks to me as if it doesn't matter what we pay and the old conundrum of the difference between 'frost-proof' and 'frost-resistant' does not seem to matter.
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Post by Geranium on Jan 31, 2011 10:08:56 GMT
One of mine must have been affected by the frost - I was replanting it and a piece just fell off the side. I think it was too old to have had a label, so I suppose it wasn't either 'resistant' or 'proof'.
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Post by sweetpea on Jan 31, 2011 15:07:10 GMT
When I used clay pots for my sweetpeas it was always the more modern pots that split rather than the older more chunky ones. It may just be a tendency of modern manufacturing methods but annoying all the same.
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Post by esther on Jan 31, 2011 16:17:45 GMT
I have lost a few pots - again
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Post by Lou78W on Jan 31, 2011 16:46:45 GMT
Mine appear to be ok....so far
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Post by Tel on Feb 1, 2011 8:04:22 GMT
I do not think the price of the pots really comes into it. My theory is the wetter the compost, in the pot, when it freezes, the greater the expansion.
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Post by Louise on Feb 1, 2011 8:08:06 GMT
I don't get casulties either, it's an interesting topic.
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Post by Fractal on Feb 1, 2011 15:07:56 GMT
This winter (December anyway) has certainly seen significant damage to pots and even brickwork here. A wall that my dad has built in the garden has a few bricks that have flaked quite badly. He says that they are from a later batch and are of poorer quality that the others.
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 2, 2011 23:46:54 GMT
I do not think the price of the pots really comes into it. My theory is the wetter the compost, in the pot, when it freezes, the greater the expansion. I would have thought that any expansion would take the line of least resistance, ie upwards much like the top of the milk used to pop up in the milk bottles on the doorstep.
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Post by floydie on Feb 2, 2011 23:55:51 GMT
Haven't had a good luck at mine yet, but the render on the back wall of the house has cracked and started to come away .
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Post by SueA on Feb 3, 2011 13:28:28 GMT
Similar to you Floydie I've noticed some of the pointing has dropped out of the brickwork on the back of our house, it's probably because it gets wet, freezes & then melts in the sun, the garden is South facing & gets all the weather. I've got quite a few pots that have flaked & cracked too including a lovely part glazed blue one & like the others I don't think it matters what you pay they all crack the same.
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Post by floydie on Feb 3, 2011 17:29:28 GMT
Problem is SueA our roof was leaking pretty bad on both outside corners of the house (this is were the render fell off) its a case of water/damp running down the outside wall freezing then crack .
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Post by Cherry on Feb 3, 2011 17:44:10 GMT
Similar to you Floydie I've noticed some of the pointing has dropped out of the brickwork on the back of our house, it's probably because it gets wet, freezes & then melts in the sun, the garden is South facing & gets all the weather. I've got quite a few pots that have flaked & cracked too including a lovely part glazed blue one & like the others I don't think it matters what you pay they all crack the same. They all crack the same. Tel must be right I think. He thinks the compost should not get too wet for expansion.
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Post by Geranium on Feb 3, 2011 18:06:04 GMT
Some of the reclaimed bricks in the path OH laid have lifted, and some have flaked, too.
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Post by SueA on Feb 4, 2011 12:14:34 GMT
Problem is SueA our roof was leaking pretty bad on both outside corners of the house (this is were the render fell off) its a case of water/damp running down the outside wall freezing then crack . Sounds nasty Floydie, be careful or you'll end up with damp coming inside through the walls.
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