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Tipsy Pots - How do you do that?
Want to use up a
lot of pots?
You need a piece of rebar, or a long dowel or any long metal rod that can be pushed into the ground. Push rod into the ground about 30 cm. Slot the first pot over the rod (through the center hole) and down to the bottom, fill with dirt, and then slot another pot over the rod and down to rest on the first one and fill with dirt. Continue adding pots one at a time and balance each one on the edge of the previous pot. Adjust the amount of "tipsy" you want for each pot as you add them. You can add as many pots as you wish depending on the size of the rod you have. You can also get creative and instead of using pots, you could use old metal containers, metal pots, old metal tea kettles, old watering cans. The finished result is only limited by your imagination. In the winter I take my tipsy pots apart and store them in the garage. Clay pots will not survive a Canadian winter outside. They are easy to dismantle, just lift each pot up the rebar and remove carefully.
Here is a small tipsy that I put together using some ceramic pots. A small rod was poked into the bottom pot (it doesn't have any drainage hole) and then I added the darker blue pot. I'll be on the look out for a tiny ceramic pot for the very top, but right now I'm using a mini clay pot.
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