This project simply amazed me when i first looked it.
Diy hand planters. It s a manufactured substitute for natural tufa which is a slowly precipitated limestone rock. 1 pair of rubber gloves 1 pair of latex gloves 2 large buckets bowls duct tape 7 cups of concrete mix with small aggregate roughly one and a half cups of water a concrete mixing. We were so struck by these hand planters from jenise at diy fun ideas that we couldn t wait. These cement hand planters look particularly striking with the addition of succulents or cacti.
If your tastes tend toward the unusual these hands will appeal. Planting beans and corn by hand is a pain. So i decided to do what i always do and found a tutorial so. That is until i saw the price tag and couldn t stomach paying that much for a bag of concrete poured into a mold.
Hi friends how to make cement hand planters very cool easy. I was able to cobble together a hand held seeder out of pvc pipe and a few other pieces of hardware. These are armless hypertufa hands d hypertufa is a rock made from aggregates bonded together with portland cement. Here s how it went.
With a table saw i shaped. This is really easy and all you need is some cement a pair of gloves and make a cement hand planter. You can also use pretty annuals for a pop of color. Decorate your garden patio porch or even your apartment with these adorable unique easy to make concrete garden hands planters this spring.
This is not the only way you can plant them out though. Build a hand held corn and bean planter. I m expecting that it will work for medium to large sized seeds like beans corn peas pumpkins squash and most importantly for me sunflowers. That s why i fell immediately when i discovered concrete hand planters.
Gather your ingredients for this project you ll need. See video tutorial below i love concrete planters just as much as the next person but what i love even more is a planter with some personality. I don t plant enough corn or beans to justify buying an automatic seeder but i plant enough that it gets very old poking holes in the ground with my finger and dropping a seed into each hole. The idea is very original and i must confess.
Is we are at the diy category we should say from the start that this is about. 3 planter from a wooden crate.