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To Make An Aged Looking Trough?

I received this email from Stephen who asked:

Dear Artistic Gardener: This is from Sheffield England. Please could you advise me on the “wooden former”, concrete mix, possible wall thickness and dimensions and possible type of chicken wire as strengthener to make a concrete “aged type trough”?

I am referring to what was used as animal water troughs in England long ago. I want to make mine to hold plants. Yours sincerely,
Stephen

My reply:

Hello Stephen:

Thank you for contacting me. I believe the information you want can be found on the 4 Basic Hypertufa Recipes page and the instructions for How To Make A Hypertufa Trough.

I guess you overlooked that information on my site. I have many more pages of information that will be of interest to you about working with hypertufa.

Please go to my main hypertufa page. And then go all the way to the bottom of the page – you’ll see links to all the other pages of information. Note that the very last link is how to age troughs with moss.

I sure hope this helps. Good luck with your project.