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Molds to vessels of a large garden?

I have recently decided to take up making a big garden pots concrete. How do I make a mold casting effective way to move large pots of about 4 meters by 4 meters. I would do it in one piece. I will be using tufa concrete mix. Thanks

I do not I'm sure a pot so that size made from the mixture used to "tufa" in the U.S. to withstand the force of the volume of dirt … is made of concrete on the sides would have to be at least 3 "thick tufa they probably would be more than double the base and curving to the sides would have to be very thick. I do not know about the cast, by a planter that the size you need to build the same and would need a huge amount of bracing. You can make a latex mold of an existing pot or sculpt one out of one of several blocks of styrofoam and coating it with a cementitious material and make the mold from there … if you want one that's the way to go …

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