snogurl wrote:
> hi list
> my hubby has just built me a really nice flower box in the front of my
> downtown home, thing is, the back of the flower box has no frame, the
> soil would essentially go against the house, which brings me to my
> question. What material do you reccomend to use as a barrier between
> soil and wood you DO NOT want to rot? we were thinking thick plastic,
> but need to know if this is ap****priate.
> Thanks in advance
>
You don't want to put plastic there...the retained water would rot
anything that you planted. And if it were me, I'd want to put a wooden
barrier on the back. There are other possibilities, but for the sake of
a flower box, you don't want to risk the water, soil and whatever may be
in the soil going up against your house. You can easily mount the flower
pot on a piece of wood instead of the house...and mount that to the
house...and put thick plastic between the house and the mount just in
case.
You may consider a little landscaping fabric once you put a back on to
it...but nothing will keep the water from the wood. That's why so many
are made from cedar. Cedar will last a decade or more.
Expect it to rot in time. You'll get a few years out of it at least.
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