Created pots for the garden with their own hands - it's convenient, practical, and most importantly a cheap way to grow on the garden plot of beautifully flowering annuals, spicy herbs and even small shrubs. Such vases are also used for planting heat-loving plants, which, with the onset of cold weather, will be very convenient to carry into the room. It is also important to remember that plants planted in pots and flowerpots require careful care and regular watering. But even here it is necessary to observe the measure: stagnation of water will quickly lead to decay of roots and destruction of green plantations.
You can make garden pots for your garden with your own hands, from anything, including throw-out material. In the course are a wooden tub, ceramic vases, an old baby bath and even rubber boots. But the most popular material is the usual old bald tire. There really is a lot of opportunities for landscape creativity, the main thing is not to overestimate your strength. Kashpo made of tires is used both as a practical flowerbed and simply as an ornament. You can put them at the entrance to the garden. Kashpo for the garden there are simple and complex, terrestrial and pendant. In addition, vases are made both stationary and portable. The main thing is that they harmoniously fit into the overall picture and are combined with other types of decor.
So, in order to make pots for the garden with your own hands, you will need one old tire, a sharp knife or a Bulgarian. The most colorful are vases in the form of animals and birds. From an ordinary tire you can cut a swan, a turtle, a toucan, a parrot and even a dolphin. When making birds, the beak is cut from a wooden board and screwed to the rubber with a fixing bolt. Before you start to cut the tire, it is left for several hours under the scorching sun, so that it becomes softer. Small parts can be attached to the pots with a furniture stapler or small nails. In order that the tire is easier to cut, the knife is periodically dipped in cold water.
There are several important secrets that should not be neglected when making pots for a garden with their own hands. For example, before painting, the product must be degreased. This can be done as an ordinary dishwashing detergent. Also carefully select the color gamut. Many noticed that the vases, painted in matte plain-looking colors, look unpretentious, faded and very cheap.
Easy to make and pendant pots. The easiest way is to cut the tire in half, make fasteners on both sides, stretch out the cord and hang it. Typically, these vases are placed on a veranda, gazebo, near a bath or a garage. But leaving them under the open sky is not recommended, since torrential rains will quickly wash the soil, revealing the roots of the plants. But if the plant remains on the street, consider the appropriate drainage holes in it. Very impressive look vases, suspended on fences and walls of buildings. But it must be taken into account that car tires are heavy. Therefore, the basis for their fastening must be made very strong. In the suspended pots, petunias, pelargonias, begonias and various ivy are very beautiful.