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Message: [QUOTE="Chuck, post: 58402, member: 944"] Having to add stones, bricks, gravel etc is an urban legend and old wives tale. All it does is subtract from the volumn of potting soil and the total area of the plants root growing zone, thus encouraging the plant to become root bound. You must have adequate drainage, Most containers have one 1" hole in the bottom and that isn't enough. Your containers should never sit flat on the ground as this will lead to the drainage hole/holes clogging up and as a means for ants/other insects to invade your potting soil. Think about it...................what will a brick do? Will the plants roots not completely grow around and engulf the brick as if it wasn't even there? Of course they will. Will a brick stop the roots from growing out of the drainage holes? Of course they won't. [/QUOTE]