With a wood dowel or your finger ... Fold the plastic liner over the top of the hypertufa and leave it in the mold to cure for 24-hours. If your plastic mold container has a lid, use this as ...

Making hypertufa is almost ... Container to use as a mold -- deli tray, cardboard box, old sink, bowl, plastic container • Wheelbarrow • Large wood spoon or paddle for stirring • Plastic ...

slivered wood diagonally across the container before planting a smaller fern and a Chocolate Chip ajuga, and adding a smooth river rock. The final touch for this hypertufa planting was a carpet of ...

Line wood and metal molds with plastic first otherwise the hypertufa will stick and not release easily. The mix won't stick to cardboard, plastic, or Styrofoam molds. Once the mold is full put the ...

When I made my hypertufa containers, I used vermiculite in the recipe. Depending upon the size of the container you plan on using as a mold, you will need a jar or can to measure the ingredients with.

Place short pieces of tubing, such as a two-inch-long piece of garden hose, in the bottom of the mold to form a drainage hole. Hypertufa is porous, but a drain hole will still help. Pour the ...

A group of intrepid gardeners recently learned just how to do that in a hypertufa workshop at Ashcombe ... only get a few drops of water." Then you mold the mixture to any shape you like, as ...

Mix together, pack it into or over a mold (we used Styrofoam ice chests) and wait. on the Random Acts of Gardening blog. Joe Lamp'l, author and host of "Growing a Greener World" on PBS ...

A group of intrepid gardeners recently learned how to do that in a hypertufa workshop at Ashcombe ... you should only get a few drops of water." Then you mold the cementy oatmeal to any shape ...