It fell off.
I re-fit it and tightened it even more.
I repeated this process three times:
Sunday, 21 August 2011
Terracotta Plant Pot Repair.
It's a shame when a good-sized plant pot decides to fall apart.
I refit the pieces and wrapped some copper capillary pipe around the pot:
I lined it up with the ridges and twisted it up tight with a pair of pliers.
It fell off.
I re-fit it and tightened it even more.
I repeated this process three times:
Then I planted a box bush in it:
It fell off.
I re-fit it and tightened it even more.
I repeated this process three times:
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Display it proudly. I learned from the Japanese that a cracked pot, repaired or not, is of more value aesthetically when used than a new one. The most beautiful terracotta pot I have ever seen had a chunk broken out of one side and that was in many pieces. The pot had contained some kind of rich green moss and that all spilled out. No one cleaned it up and a year later there was this pot with moss growing out of it and down into the soil in the broken pieces. It was just beautiful and the image will be with me forever.
The next patient on the slab will be a Victorian Rhubarb Forcer that's currently in 4 pieces.
For pots with bits missing I usually try to introduce
Soleirolia soleirolii or 'Mind Your Own Business' as we call it.
It fills quite a few cracks in our garden.
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