Strawberries are very good. Found a type that sounded very good and was supposed to be sown in hanging vases.
So, well, a vase with a lot of openings seemed to me like a good planting option for such a kind of strawberries. Here it is:
Size is xxx and there are 9 openings (thought of adding more but it was indeed a very tedious work and got bored after the second one already... :O) ). Even though it does not look like much, it is rather large. Here there is a picture of me with it for reference:
It used a clay with 40% chamotte for stability. What exact kind I will try to find out.It took me 4 lessons to do this and it was pretty difficult as the clay kind of dried pretty quickly, which did not give very much time for "adjustments". When adding the openings, that were rather soft, a lot of cracks popped up when drying. Tried to repair them. They did not come back after the first nor the second baking. Some kind of "half cracks" are on the bottom but they are at least not visible. Hope the vase will survive my planting activities.
No glaze was used at all. The result was unsure. It could turn terracotta or brown and mine definitively turned out brown, even though there are some red (not really visible in the picture though) spots.
From the top, this is how it looks.
As usual it is not a work of art, and it is definitively not precisely made, but I think it was pretty cool anyways. :O)
So now there are only two things left to do: planting and hope it does not crack!
3/7-2011: Strawberry plants got planted in the pot. The plants looked very small and suffering after planting. So some kind of "worry" about them not making it was definitely there. At the top, I also added one lippia dulcis plant.
5/7-2011: The plants had already grown. Look at the picture after 2 days from planting
And also a shot of the lippia dulcis plant.
Let us see where it goes within one week or two if the growth is so noticeable after 2 days!
So, well, a vase with a lot of openings seemed to me like a good planting option for such a kind of strawberries. Here it is:
Size is xxx and there are 9 openings (thought of adding more but it was indeed a very tedious work and got bored after the second one already... :O) ). Even though it does not look like much, it is rather large. Here there is a picture of me with it for reference:
It used a clay with 40% chamotte for stability. What exact kind I will try to find out.It took me 4 lessons to do this and it was pretty difficult as the clay kind of dried pretty quickly, which did not give very much time for "adjustments". When adding the openings, that were rather soft, a lot of cracks popped up when drying. Tried to repair them. They did not come back after the first nor the second baking. Some kind of "half cracks" are on the bottom but they are at least not visible. Hope the vase will survive my planting activities.
No glaze was used at all. The result was unsure. It could turn terracotta or brown and mine definitively turned out brown, even though there are some red (not really visible in the picture though) spots.
From the top, this is how it looks.
As usual it is not a work of art, and it is definitively not precisely made, but I think it was pretty cool anyways. :O)
So now there are only two things left to do: planting and hope it does not crack!
3/7-2011: Strawberry plants got planted in the pot. The plants looked very small and suffering after planting. So some kind of "worry" about them not making it was definitely there. At the top, I also added one lippia dulcis plant.
5/7-2011: The plants had already grown. Look at the picture after 2 days from planting
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| Picture taken on 5/7-2011 |
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