VIDEO: Planting zinc tubs for the garden effectively as tubs
Zinc tubs as attractive planters
Often times, old zinc tubs can be considered beautiful Planter be used for larger solitary plants or other planting.
- With a zinc tub you have a very decorative metal alternative for the garden, which you can plant with plants, tendrils and flowers as you wish. You should prepare the zinc tub accordingly and ensure sufficient drainage so that your plants do not have "cold feet" because waterlogging after rain or watering caused by watering can very quickly rot the sensitive root area of your plants permit.
- For drainage, you should drill small holes on the side with a metal drill. Make sure, however, that you do not make the holes directly on the underside of the zinc tub, otherwise all the water will run out. Set this approx. 20 cm above the floor area. The height will depend on the size of your zinc tubs.
- As a first layer, fill the zinc tub with gravel, enriching it with a little sand and clay. Clay, in particular, is very nutritious, so your plants can thrive well after planting them. Then fill up the humus to a height that is suitable for "potting" the plants so that they are stable and can also defy the wind.
- You can also decorate and paint your zinc tubs with paints for outside use. Pictures or motifs that correspond to the seasons are suitable, and you can also use the seasons Corresponding garden figures or wind chimes add different elements and plants to the zinc tubs are housed.
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Combine potted plants in the zinc planter
With different plants and their combination you can create a pretty and decorative arrangement in the zinc tubs:
- With bamboo In various and also striped variants and cultivars you have on the one hand a beautiful and insensitive exotic plant that is spreading in more and more domestic gardens. Since bamboo does not lose its leaves in winter, you should pour it into the zinc tubs on frost-free days, otherwise the leaves will roll up as an indication of acute drought.
- As a contrast to the tall bamboo in the lower area of the zinc tubs, they can also be hardy and evergreen in various variations ivy to let something grow. Especially when it meanders over the edge and along the zinc tub wall, this offers an attractive picture with the bamboo.
- So that color comes into play, you should also use flowering plants such as petunias, which offer very perennial beautiful different colored flowers for months. With snowdrops that already start to bloom in winter when there is snow, you have beautiful, planted zinc tubs all year round.
In addition to or interchangeably, you can also use very beautiful ornamental grasses with glowing stalks and Put enchanting flowers in the zinc tubs, so that all in all a beautiful planting and Decoration is created.
