New garden urn

I bought a fibreglass garden urn.

It was an "orphan", the last one in stock, so it was reduced in price. I gave in to the impulse to buy it.

I am doing a typical Impatient Beginner thing, and experimenting with hydroponics. So far I only have one tomato, one lettuce, and a pot of flat-leaf parsley growing hydroponically, but if they work out who knows how far it will go? I thought the fancy urn would be a good show-off container for the tomato plant. When I got it home I made the sad discovery that the container the tomato is in will not fit inside the urn, and I don't want to disturb the plant by repotting.

So I have a choice - I can either make another hydroponic pot system that will fit inside the urn, or I can fill it with potting mix and grow a marguerite daisy or something. I think I will paint it before I decide.

Now that I have one urn, I want another... But they cost quite a few dollars, so it might be worthwhile to try making one. If I used a plastic bucket as a base, and carved decorative ribs and medallions out of styrofoam, and built everything up with premix concrete and hessian strips, I think I could make one. A BIGGER one, of course.

But I am not going to. Or not just now, anyway. I have enough projects on the go as it is, so a handbuilt urn is not going to happen this summer.