Burlap Pot Cover

I got a stack of burlap cocoa bags from my employer this spring.  They were stuffed around some products as packing material!  They had all been cut  at an end.  I took about 10, hoping I could find creative uses for them. 

My greenhouse job involves perks, like free plants!  So late this summer I got 4 Red Rooster grasses.  I was thinking ahead to making a fall display.  The pots I had just didn't inspire me.  So I decide to cover a plastic one.  I cut a template out of plastic sheeting & began this quick task.

I sewed the side together on my machine in the house.  Then safety pinned the bottom.

Then, as I planted the grass, I tucked in the top edges and packed dirt around that outside edge.

The Red Rooster is a brown wispy grass, but not a perennial where I live.

Are you ready for the results?  If only our last name was Thompson or something starting with "T".  I might find a Halloween tarantula to pin on the pot, that would probably be cute.

I couldn't resist a funny picture:

I think the late summer heat is getting to me.  No, really.... my hair does look like this some mornings.