Handmade Giant container project
By madfairy
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Today we have had a downpour of cold,hard little balls of ice fall from the sky! (hail stones). To be honest i quite like them when im cosy indoors crashing to the ground in their dramatic fashion. Mostly this only brings me to daydream out of the window and wish for warmer months to come.
Last Summer my wonderful partner made a pot,scale is not his best thing…so I have a small garden and a very large pot. Although in fairness he saw me fussing around for something bigger to put my sunflower,this year I only had one sunflower and truth be known i guess it should have pride of place as other projects were going on around her grow.
21 Feb, 2015
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Thanks Snoopdog I was pleased with it!
Yes Steragram hes planing new pots for this summer too, I will look out for those suttons seeds this year!
21 Feb, 2015
That's a big pot alright...but I like it.
21 Feb, 2015
Try to mix some small pet bedding/compost/horticultural grit sand/ with fertiliser into the purchased compost. This takes 2 months to blend in , helps with the cost of purchased compost to fill such a large pot, helps to keep the plant moist, reduces watering in the hot weather.
I am doing all my pots like this now in the cold weather.
Will mean more restful hours when the good weather comes.
22 Feb, 2015
thats a great plan Diane i always mix up the shop compost as i find it is too soggy otherwise.
Love the pot Madfairy. We grew huge sunflowers last year they were a delight. 12 foot high with 18inch heads. I you or any other GOYer wants some seeds ( i have hundreds!!) just send me a SAE and i will post you some. pm me for the address. :-)
22 Feb, 2015
Thank you Diane thats great advice and I will follow it, its true that the pot took some filling and more care is needed for this years seeds, i kind of filled it up with anything I could last summer in haste!
I also planted sunflowers a bit late this year...
this year im on the case!
Thank you Sandra thats very kind of you! ive pm you :)
22 Feb, 2015
Its a goodun and no mistake.......
22 Feb, 2015
I still have the mould of a car engine. Saw it in a skip 25 years ago, asked if I could have it. The joiner said "What do you want that for ?" I replied " Every garden should have a sculpture " I sprayed it with 'Stone' paint.
Now I dont want to part with it.
A different shape makes all the difference.
23 Feb, 2015
That's definitely different!
23 Feb, 2015
Gosh the pot is wonderful ,I love the decorative edging round the top , clever man how on earth do you make a pot like that ?
26 Feb, 2015
He is clever! :) more in the making this year. I will photo graph steps of next pot made.
I painted the edges, took ages with tiny dots. Sort of mosaic looking!
26 Feb, 2015
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Wow, that is some pot! Very attractive, what a talented partner you have. Suttons are selling seeds this year for sunflowers that can reach 17 feet tall - it might be just the container for one of those!
21 Feb, 2015