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Fish box trough (post #17891)

jyang949 on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 11:00
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Have you ever made a planting trough out of a styrofoam fish box? Some are manually textured then glazed with a heat gun. Others are covered with grout. I was wondering which is better for imitating carved stone.

Janet

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Give it a go. (post #17891, reply #1 of 2)

by Noel-in-England in reply to jyang949 [original] on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 09:33

I presume these Fish Troughs are free, for you?

 

Just give it a go - and see what others think .  

 

They will weather naturally, and take-on hues of the soil / dirt you use.

Troughs originally weren't designed for garden plants:- they were designed to water animals - and then, having become redundant - were put to a fresh use. 

It can be the same, with your fish boxes.

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The boxes are free from the (post #17891, reply #2 of 2)

by jyang949 in reply to Noel-in-England [original] on Tue, 09/07/2010 - 10:19

The boxes are free from the grocery store, although I just learned that a holiday is not the best time to get them. There was no garbage pickup yesterday (Labor Day), so some of the boxes had been there for more than a day. The one I got was particularly odiferous. Then I went inside an electronics store to wait for my husband, and could see other customers thinking Where is that smell coming from?

You have a point--I haven't anything to lose by plunging ahead.

Janet