Lock down project #3

This flower pot holder idea came from another site that shows how to use these in various forms for your garden.

There is not however any write up that I could find on the site regarding how to make these for yourself.

I put this short post together and hope it will help someone out there.

Please go to this site for more gardening tips. https://www.easydiyandcrafts.com/category/gardening/

The Flower Pot Holder Project

Once again this is a project, I have undertaken during the lockdown for Covid-19 internationally. With minimal available wood and only the items I have in my garage/workshop.

I selected some pieces of wood from the pallets that were dismantled a while back and the pieces had been stored.

This is a simple little stand to make and you could probably knock a some together in a few hours if you have the material.

The Pot Sizes

My other half is an avid gardener when she has the time and we have the spare funds, so there are normally a few flower pots around.

She selected these pots and I was fortunate enough to have a hole saw suitable to cut out the holes for the pots. A 64mm hole saw was used, a 68mm would have been better however all our hardware stores are closed as they are not considered amongst the essential places to be operating at this time and I have to make do with what I have available.

The selected pieces of pallet were both 100mm wide and I cut them to 440mm in length. They were sanded with a belt sander as my thicknesser is not available. A smoothing plane was used to clean off the rough edges.

The spacing pieces on either end are 60mm in height just enough to sperate the top and bottom of the small frame. If you have longer pieces of timber you could make holes for five or six little pots.

After cleaning the wood up the ends were glued together and clamped for an hour.

I then stained the frame with a teak stain and allowed it to dry.

Four small cacti are planted in the flower pots and placed in the flower pot holder.

A simple but really effective way to display your pot plants.