Specialty Gardening: Slicing Up A Basket, 0 by heathrjoy

heathrjoy wrote:
What I started w/ was a 10" hanging basket. $0.97 from Wal-Mart. I tried using dry wall mesh tape to line the cut out areas of the planter. I found out after watering it that I would like something a little more rigid, so I'm going to try this with some other materials, but I wanted to get the general instructions posted asap because I think there may be some folks waiting on them.

I measured from top to bottom on the inside of the pot so I'd know how long to cut the dry wall tape. I cut it to length, then made it 5 layers thick. I made sure the layers of mesh were NOT even, only the sides were even. Then I laid them out in the pot evenly. I didn't measure I just eyed everything up. Make sure the tape is not over the areas that the hanger goes into to hang the basket. Where the tape is will be cut away.