I first read about hypertufa when doing library research to figure out what I could safely plant on a mound septic system. When I read in a magazine article that hypertufa planters could be left outside in the winter, with plants in them, I knew that one way or another I was going to learn how to make hypertufa, even though that original article left me somewhat confused and even scared. It was the blow torch, you see. The article said I had to use a blow torch when making hypertufa!

That first magazine article inspired me to search for additional "how-to" information in the library and in bookstores and on the internet and — finally — I had the courage to try it.

By the end of the summer there was a garden atop that mound and some lovely little hypertufa creations residing around the edges.

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