The video showed some pretty pottery, but since his lang. is Croatian there was not enough written direction, time to cure advice etc. 3.4 min is a long slog of time…
I wanted to warn anyone using regular Portland cement, or Quickcrete, etc. added to any paper, peat moss-which gives a more real pottery look) that you need to wet cure the pot for a month or more under constant wetting or the 'hot cement' will burn the roots of plants and can kill them
Making pottery in fall, leaving them outside in the rain all winter is a safe way, then plant in spring. I have read several warnings of putting tender seedlings into your new made cement pot. Since cement chemically cures to full strength over 60-90 days that period of time could damage plants
maybe layering in straw fiber or those formed coconuthuisk fiber inserts you can buy for hanging planters could help protect-- very pricey however $6.-$30.!! which defeats the purpose of cheap papercrete pottery
I have also used paper, clay and lime, no cement, to sculpt some and these pots took 7+ years to degrade while in the weather full time.
Charmaine
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
www.papercrete.com
Charmaine Taylor/Publishing & Elk River Press
PO Box 375 Cutten CA 95534
www.papercrete.com
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