My latest knitting experiment

[katemonkey]

I knitted a small hanging planter to go on my fence.

Because most of my back garden is concrete, I need to use a lot of nontraditional concepts for gardening. I could do the traditional hanging baskets, but I can knit, and I had twine, and I wanted to see what was possible.

It had a plastic bag as the liner, with a hole in the bottom for drainage.

I don't know how long it'll last. I'm assuming it won't last through a harsh winter, but, to be fair, I doubt the plant will last past the first frost either.

So, if it works, I'll write it up as a knitting pattern. And I'll make a bunch for all over my fence and plant a lot of long trailing basket-based flowers. Or strawberries - I'm thinking strawberries could be a really interesting thing to put into something like this.

(I also love the fact that I can cross-post this in gardening as well as knitting...)

Comments

[anatsuno]

that's... kinda rad. XD I like!

[uninvitedcat]

That's a really cool idea - definitely let us know how successful it is!

[ashtoreth]

What a cool concept!

Thank you for sharing it with us *grins*

[evilawyer]

That's very pretty!

[fallingbooks]

That's pretty damn nifty. I could definitely use a few of those. <3

wall planter

[hadjie]

wonderful!

[afuna]

Oh neat! If you do ever decide to publish, I may try this myself.