Footprint 31: Painting the square foot gardens: Primer

Here are the tools that I will be using for painting the square foot gardens:

Tools for painting

In no particular order, above are: 

a)  A tin for mixing bitumen and water for primer;

b)  Bitumen;

c)  Paint;

d)  Membrane;

e)  Brush soaking in water;

f)  Watering can for water.

Nothing happens without water.  The first coat is a 1/2 mixture of bitumen and water.  This is to get the bitumen to soak into the wood.  Here are the boxes painted with primer:

Boxes coated with primer

This is going to be a slow process.  The primer needs to dry for upwards of three hours.  Subsequent coats need longer.  I will give the drying times as I post each coat.

There were some casualties along the way:

Shorts with primer splatter

One of my favourite pairs of shorts for the beach are now re-assigned to painting and home shorts.  I very much doubt that those stains are going to come out.

Paint bespattered feet

Hopefully these will come right with a long, well-deserved soak in a nice hot bath, with loads of bubbly stuff, with the bubbly stuff being shop bought gifts from family.