Annette Shrader joins in a fun concrete project that preserves interesting leaves for ornamental pieces. To WATCH full episodes, visit www.volunteergardener.org
Just an FYI if you intend to do this project on your own there is a mistake in the main instructions that was not addressed. The plastic wrap does not go over the leaf, it goes under it and over the sand.
Wonderful video and very informative. By chance, has Ms. Donna's garden ever been featured on this show? Its beautiful! I would love to see a tour of it.
In your demonstration, you applied the quickcrete onto the plastic wrap with the leaf underneath. But when you unmolded the leaf that you made 48 hours ago, the plastic wrap was on top of the sand and the quickcrete directly on the leaf. Does it matter?
If you put the plastic on top of the leave every little wrinkle on that plastic will show up on the end product. I would put the plastic under the leaf for best results.
Your autumn leaf was beautiful... would these be strong enough to use as a stepping stone? Is there anything else you would do differently in making one into a stepping stone?
ATTENTION ALL VIEWERS: PLEASE NOTE THERE IS A HUGE MISTAKE IN THIS VIDEO THAT IS IGNORED AND NOT ADDRESSED. This video bypasses a huge mistake and does not come back to address or correct it nor is there any editing to explain and if you haven't done any casting chances are you won't notice it. When you are laying the plastic wrap down, the platic wrap goes over the sand, the leaf goes onto the plastic wrap and then the concrete goes directly on the leaf, that is not what is shown in the video yet at the end when the finished leaf is shown it is in the correct order. To the poster of this video, you did not come back in at any point and explain why you changed the positioning of the plastic wrap. My guess would be when you checked it after filming you realized you screwed up and should have put the plastic UNDER the leaf and not OVER it as the second casting would have just been textured wrinkles from the plastic wrap and defeat the entire purpose. I genuinely hope YOUR MISTAKE hasn't cost viewers time and money. It's perfectly okay to make mistakes, it's not okay however to ignore them when you are making a DIY instructional video. You should have edited this video to acknowledge your mistake in the order of your instructions. I hope this comment can at least alert others so they don't make the same mistake you did.