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This pot is light and inexpensive -- and you can make it yourself.
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Depending on your walls, ceilings and strength, lightweight pots may be nice to have, or essential. There's a simple way to make your own lightweight pots, says show host Kim Haworth. All you need are a few simple materials and a couple of containers to use as a mold. Here's how to proceed: - Select two containers that are the same shape, but one must be several sizes larger than the other. Two round bowls in graduated sizes will work, and so will two varying rectangular plastic storage containers.
- Spray the inside of the larger container liberally with vegetable spray, and the outside of the smaller container. That way, the pot you create will slip easily from the mold.
- Mix equal parts of Portland cement, Perlite, and peat moss, and then mix with enough water to reach the consistency of brownie mix.
- Pour the cement mixture into the larger container, about half-way up.
- Set the smaller container inside the larger, on top of the cement mix. Press it down.
- Fill in the space between the walls of the two containers with more cement mix.
- Let dry and unmold.
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