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Homes & Gardens
Drew Swainston

5 reasons why you should clean garden pots – and how skipping this step is killing your plants

Woman cleaning plant pots and replanting house plants

Whether intentionally or not, most gardeners tend to accumulate a stockpile of garden pots. From plastic pots we've brought home from a plant nursery and have since re-used for seedlings to trays for propagation to large terracotta pots used for beautiful summer displays, these containers can often be a little neglected, and sometimes quite dirty.

Of course, many of us clean our flower pots regularly with the hosepipe as we're watering our plants, or clean terracotta pots at the start of the season before we plant them up so they look smart on our patios.

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