About This Episode
Why you should drill a hole in the bottom of a flower pot.
Plus, Grumpys gripe of the century.
What will happen if I don’t?"
Rotten roots means dead plants.
So, except for those, always plant in pots with drainage holes in the bottom.
If a pot doesn’t have one, make one.
I hope I’ve been clear on that, Kyle.
Where that’s also short for fanatics, who believe that you should never plant anything in your yard.
No plant that wasn’t here in North America prior to the arrival of Columbus.
There’s a couple things that are wrong with this.
Number one, just because something is native, doesn’t make it a good plant for your yard.
People confuse it a lot withpoison ivy’cause it has these divided leaves, and it’s a vine.
And this vine, like all vines, hardly ever stops growing.
It’ll grow up anything.
It’ll attach itself and grow up concrete.
It’ll attach itself to metal poles.
It’ll go up the sides of a tree.
It’ll go up the sides of your house.
And the vine it produces these berries, which the birds eat and poop out everywhere.
So, this is a horrible plant, and it’s native.
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