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- Plant an old wine barrel
- Plant the wine barrel step by step
- Note: Do not completely fill the wine barrel with soil
- 1. Made the wine barrel watertight
- 2. Drainage
- 3. Fill with soil and plant
- 4. Cover the foil
- The wine barrel as mini pond
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Plant an old wine barrel
Old wine barrels evoke romantic feelings, especially when they are wildly blooming in the garden. How to plant your wine barrel step by step, read here. We have also put together a selection of the most beautiful plants for your wine barrel.
Plant the wine barrel step by step
For planting your wine barrel you need:
Note: Do not completely fill the wine barrel with soil
Completely filling your wine barrel with earth will not only cost you a lot of money, it will also increase your weight considerably. To fill the entire wine barrel with soil is only useful if you want to put in a very large plant whose roots need all the space. However, if you only want to plant your wine barrel with flowers, you do not need the entire depth.
Here are two ways to make the wine barrel "shorter":
1. Made the wine barrel watertight
To keep your wine barrel for a long time, you should line it up so that the moisture of the plants can not damage the wood. To do this, place your wine barrel with pond liner, which will overlap slightly over the edge.
If you want your wine barrel to stand outdoors, it is also useful to paint it with a weatherproof paint from the outside.
2. Drainage
Put about five centimeters of expanded clay into the wine barrel. This serves as a drainage layer.
3. Fill with soil and plant
Now fill your wine barrel to about 15 cm below the edge with soil. Then put your plants in and fill the rest with soil.
4. Cover the foil
You can hide the overhanging foil under overlapping ground covers or hanging plants or you cover earth and foil with moss or mulch.
The wine barrel as mini pond
Instead of filling the wine barrel with soil and planting it, you can also fill it with water and build a pond from it. To do this, lay out the barrel with pond liner, build different levels into the barrel with the aid of large stones and buckets and then place pond plants in plant baskets on these levels. Fill with water and your pond barrel is ready.