Is it possible to use dry beans for drainage in the bottom of a pot?
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You can certainly place dried beans in your flower pots, if you like bean sprouts with your flowers.
Use small stones for drainage.
I think the beans would eventually soaken and may even take nutrients from the plant you are growing...
They won't sprout if buried that deep though.
I think you're talking about dried beans from the grocery store since seed beans would be an expensive way to go. I doubt beans for cooking would sprout. But they would soak up a lot of water. Then they'd rot. I doubt that would be healthy for your flowers, but who knows? The next step after rot would be disintegration, at which point they would not be effective anymore.
Beans for cooking will sprout. My kids used them for "science" projects when they were in kindergarten and first grade. I'm not sure the plants would climb all the way to the top of the soil but I am sure they would set up a dreadful odor.
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