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How to Make a Plant Pot from Old Climbing Rope
Your rope has seen better days, but it feels wrong to throw it away. One way to reuse old climbing rope, with a pot, a glue gun and a plant.
We have all been there. Your rope is old and starting to fray, and it has seen better days. But it feels like a waste to throw it away, especially after all the good times you have had together. Here is one way to reuse old climbing rope.
What you need
- An old climbing rope
- A pot or bucket the right size for your plant
- A hot glue gun
- A plant waiting for a new home
How to make it
- Choose the pot. It can be the one the plant came in, with the plant taken out for now. Turn it upside down, so the base faces up.
- Coil the base. Starting in the centre of the base, coil the rope around itself like a snail shell. Go slowly and glue every few centimetres, so it does not uncoil.
- Decide whether the pot stays. Glue the rope to the pot as well as to itself, or glue only the rope to itself, so that you can take the pot out afterwards.
- Work down the sides. Carry on the same way until the whole pot is covered, gluing regularly to keep it strong.
- Finish the end. Cut the rope, and glue the end down with plenty of glue so it cannot come loose. Give the glue time to dry.
Then put your plant into its new home. If there is rope left over, use it to make a hanger and turn the pot into a hanging basket.
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