Planters for the Patio Table and Yard
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DesertRose on Aug 06, 2018
Thank you Jennifer!
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Carey on Aug 20, 2018
I have a wheel barrow that I was debating what to do with in the near future!! I love your idea. Since mine is a deep one like yours and to big for me to handle as a full wheel barrow (It was perfect for my husband, but not for me at all. I think that I will line it with some pool liner to protect it from rust, Paint it so it will be pretty, put some rock in the bottom for drainage rather than putting holes in it. We get so little rain that with to much drainage, things are just to short on water. An uncle once told me that you have to watch bags of potatoes to be sure that they were not "Stove piped" I didn't understand what he meant, so he explained that they used to put a stove pipe in a potato bag and put big potatoes around it and then fill the pipe with small potatoes. Removing the pipe left a bag that looked like it was full of big potatoes but had mostly small ones. I am thinking that you can use this same technique to put a soil wick into a large planter so that water that is trapped in the rocks below will be wicked up to the flowers that we want to benefit from it.
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DesertRose on Aug 26, 2018
Carey, yes, you are right, that is an excellent idea too! Thanks for sharing.
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On the faux cacti made of stones, how did you make the 'prickly' part ? I have seen some examples of stones painted to look like succulents, but none this good.
Same question as Rynn! I live in high desert with tons of cacti but I hate getting pricked by them & would love to make ones that won’t get me!