First put in my garden back in 2019

By Mike Thayer

The first frost for my neck of the woods is but a couple weeks away.  It’s been a terrible year for tomatoes and much of the garden is now weary from harvest.

It’s a good time to start thinking about bringing some plants indoors, take some cuttings and harvest some seeds.  It’s also a good time to address structure needs for your garden such as planter boxes, trellises, perhaps a cold frame.

Today, I’m cleaning up a whimsical piece of my garden, a “chair planter.”  I first put this piece into use back in 2019, but it’s starting to show some wear, rust at the joints.  So it’s in need of a good cleaning and a fresh coat of Rust-Oleum paint.

Instead of the flat black, I went with a Hammered, glossy black finish, just to dress it up a bit.  I’m not into colors for my planters or containers, I like to let the flowers and veggies trumpet their colors, to strut their stuff so to speak.  They are after all what we’re displaying right, not the structure/container?

All I had to do was give the chair a bath, let it dry and then hit it with the Hammered black spray paint.  This new paint job should last for several years, making this a very low maintenance garden container piece.

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