Climbing the Walls
You have lots of flower pots and lots of walls, but you do not have much room for friends, furniture, and fun? What is the urban farmer to do?
Grow up, of course.
Here is a cheap and easy way to get your garden off the ground that anyone can do for under $5.
Ingredients:
- Plumber’s tape (a roll of plumber’s tape [$1.99] can hang many, many flower pots.)
- Wall anchors and screws (needed if you are attaching to concrete)
- A cork from a wine bottle
- Potted plant
Tools:
- Pencil
- Metal snipper (check your needle nose pliers, they often have snips for cutting wire)
- Power drill
- Screwdriver (or the screwdriver attachment on your drill)
Make it:
- Use the pencil to mark where you want to attach the pot — it can be on a wall, a post, a seat-back…
- Wrap the plumber’s tape around the flower pot so that it rests comfortably underneath the flared lip of the pot. Snip off this length of tape using the metal snipper.
- Drill a pilot hole into the place where you want to attach the pot.
- If needed, insert the wall anchor.
- Align the holes in the plumber’s tape (that you determined in step 2), and insert the screw and tighten.
- Insert your flower pot, and wedge the wine cork between it and the wall, to hold the pot steady. Now stop and smell the roses, as it were.
