How to Build Concrete Pots
- 1). Dig a hole in your sand pile with a small gardener's shovel. Make the hole the size and shape of the pot you want to make.
- 2). Pour dry concrete mix into your 5-gallon plastic bucket. Add enough water to make the mixture the consistency of thick oatmeal. Stir the concrete with your gardener's shovel.
- 3). Pour the concrete into the hole in your sand pile. Fill in one-third of the hole.
- 4). Cover the outside of your small wastebasket with lightweight machine oil. Push the wastebasket into the concrete. Add rocks into the wastebasket to hold it in place. Be careful not to push the wastebasket to the bottom of the hole. You want to have at least a 1-inch bottom on your concrete pot.
- 5). Fill the hole around the waste basket with concrete. Jab the tip of your gardener's shovel into the wet concrete to push the air bubbles out of the mixture as you go. Let the concrete cure for one week.
- 6). Pull the bucket free of the cured concrete. Dig the concrete planter out of the sand. Scrub the planter with a scrub brush to knock off all the sand and other debris.
- 7). Turn the planter upside down. Drill through the center of the bottom of the planter with the 1/2-inch masonry bit on your drill.
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