{"id":645,"date":"2010-05-03T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=645"},"modified":"2010-05-03T00:18:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T07:18:22","slug":"l-shaped-planter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"L-Shaped Planter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3388\/4573522035_967b7ef45b_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Planter Mockup\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3388\/4573522035_66661b36b2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When designing the table, I didn&#8217;t include a retainer for the soil and rhizome. \u00a0If I packed dirt into the leg itself, harvesting the table would result in a shortened leg (the space that the dirt occupies). \u00a0Wanting to stick with the right angled aesthetic, I&#8217;ve been designing a planter for the straight leg of the table to fit snugly into. \u00a0I avoided plastic because I thought it may crack from rhizome growth or the weight of it&#8217;s contents. \u00a0Although wood may prove to be a poor choice as well, it&#8217;s easier to work with and will take the weight of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Anticipating that the bamboo will not want to grow &#8220;down&#8221; at second leg of the table, I designed the planter with open sides, allowing for watering at multiple orientations. \u00a0I chose Poplar (over Oak and Cedar) for it&#8217;s nice grains and ochre hue. \u00a0I&#8217;m unsure if it will warp after watering the plant, so I will apply a few coats of Polyurethane to lessen the water damage.<\/p>\n<p>[flickr-gallery mode=&#8221;tag&#8221; tags=&#8221;planter&#8221; tag_mode=&#8221;all&#8221; sort=&#8221;date-taken-asc&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When designing the table, I didn&#8217;t include a retainer for the soil and rhizome. \u00a0If I packed dirt into the leg itself, harvesting the table would result in a shortened leg (the space that the dirt occupies). \u00a0Wanting to stick with the right angled aesthetic, I&#8217;ve been designing a planter for the straight leg of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grow-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}