Ideas for a big bowl planter cheap?
lilion
18 years ago
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Comments (13)For the base: I saw an AMAZING HGTV book at the bookstore the other day of landscape redos. They'd built a shelf that had legs made of 12 or 16" concrete pavers, with a stained wood tabletop. Briefly: Drill a hole through the middle of the each of the pavers, wide enough for a piece of rebar. (You'd need a big ol' masonry bit for this.) Drive a piece of rebar into the ground where you want the table to be. "String" the pavers on the spike sticking out of the ground, putting a little concrete or mortar between each to bond them together. They staggered the edges for a neat random effect, but you could also stack them straight into a square column. Your table could have holes for the rebar too. All you'd have to do is figure out how to hide the rebar sticking up out of the tabletop. If you didn't want to mess with that, you could just pound the rebar down until it was flush with the top of the paver stack and cement the tabletop to the top paver. If I were going to do this, I think I might make four columns instead of two just to make myself feel better about its stability-- but you could support a LARGE tabletop on four 16" concrete columns!...See MoreWho has an idea for cheap, but attractive containers ?
Comments (7)The plastic ones at the garden center are nice sometimes, especially the white ones IMO. Walmart ( I know, I know, ugh) usually has cheap ones in ther garden center. You can always spray paint them if you like, they have paint for that now. Even cheaper is the plastic storage tubs at Target, five or six bucks for a large one. Drill a few holes and you're good to go, just don't buy clear ones. Nice plastic garbage cans, laundry hampers--I would recommend the found items route. Check goodwill, too, get creative--anything that can be drilled! AS...See MorePlanter Bowls
Comments (4)hard to tell the problem without knowing the plant species, it's location in the yard, your watering schedule, the size of the planters, and the planting medium being used. but just from what you've mentioned so far you're probably right, they're probably not getting enough water where they need it. large planters are normally used for plants that need more root space. one way to raise the water level in your planter though would be to fill the space with something other than planting medium. if the planters are very large, you can easily fill them with bricks, gravel, cheap dirt, pavers, broken concrete, etc, then put your annuals in a smaller pot which you would bury below the surface of planting medium of the larger planter. this saves on expensive gardening soil as well as keeping the water where you need it, but retains the look you want. HTH...See MoreQuestions From Gary on Using BIG Planters
Comments (12)Hi the fencing sounds like a good idea.. How to attach to the pots. Silicone?? Certainly wouldn't be too expensive or a lot of work to put it on. They also make it out of plastic which might last longer. They have "hoops on the bottom side so that a forklift can pick them up .Interferes with sitting flat .Concrete blocks or bricks would take the weight but fear it would bend over time. Thought of using some kind of disk to ssupport the entire bottom such as plywood but might interfere with drainage as well as rot buried in the soil. Was thinking of putting plastic soda bottles in the bottom to take up some room ,certainly don't need two feet of soil. Even with just two will still be 4 feet plus four feet to the center will be hard to reach the middle of the upper tier. I have a level, stable location in full sun but wondering if I need to put some gravel underneath to distribute the weight. Since it won't be holding water certainly doesn't need to perfectly level. Did you ammend the soil under your stocktank?? I setup a 150 gallon aquarium in the shadehouse using crushed lava rock drains well but has shifted from front to back in two years. Was too cheap to put in a concrete apron lol This also happened to a 5x10 above ground lily pool but took over ten years to become serious lol Oh well I'm an old man it will probably last longer than me lol Thanks for the ideas !! gary...See Moreteacher417
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