Cool, I'm in need of a potting bench, and have been looking around for something to make one out of, so that gives me another option (-: I also saw one made out of an old dresser, put it up against the side of a shed/house and you can make some more shelves above the dresser, add nails to hang tools. I have just the place for it, now all I need is either a dresser or an old disgarded grill. Kendal

Thanks everyone...I'm so glad you all like it. I was really proud of myself with this..lol...thought it turned out really cute...and it will look even cuter once all the flowers come in. My husband was going to through this out during Spring Clean Up last month and I DEMANDED that he let me have it..LOL. Oh, and guess what!!!! Our other charcoal grill fell apart and he said to me..Here, use it as another planter somewhere...LOL!! WOO-HOO!!! Anyway...I loved seeing everyone elses grill ideas and think it's sooooo funny we all thought of using the Celosia....well like they say..great minds think alike..LOL. Below are just a few pics of my front yard and then the back of the house. Just to show why it's in the front yard and not the back..lol. I'm standing on my front porch steps here.See my grill planter? Looks cute huh...LOL. And that bench was the old bench on the deck outback. This area still needs work. That is this coming weeks project. Off in the distance is my son's trampoline and that feeder next to the Y tree is for the deer. We get at least a dozen every morning and every evening. Another reason why there isn't alot of flowers around here..lol. Here I'm actually on the porch looking down the driveway. I'm on the steps again lookin to my left now. That is my truck and behind it is the huge open field that my landlord owns. We up keep just to that bush and tree line. And here is the back. WOODS!!! LOL. Right behind out house is a huge barn we share with the landlord, and a stone drive. That's it. Nothing pretty about that huh..lol. Looking to the side of the house off the deck. Again..woods and LOTS of poison ivy...OH IT'S BAD THIS YEAR!!!

Oh I love all the recycling you did to build this potting bench & then stained it such a beautiful shade of almost copper! Your pig collection is just perfect for this & all your enamelware & birds & rustic goodies! Love, love, love this! Thanks for the updated pics ...& looks like your porch is a perfect spot for it now! Jeanne S.

I don't think that anyone without a chemistry degree is going to be able to say for sure. Rusts are ferric hydroxide : Fe2O3.H2O or similar. The technical paper below lists ten different forms of ferric hydroxide. Goethite is the most common rust on rusty steel parts, according to the article below. Compounds don't necessarily stay in one state after the chemical change. They can, if conditions permit undergo further chemical changes. The Wisconsin extension office article states that if microbial activity is sufficient to decrease the oxygen supply in acid soils, some ferric iron oxides and hydroxides will be transformed to more soluble ferrous forms. I think that it is more accurate to say that none of us really possess the knowledge to state conclusively. I will ADMIT that I do not know the answer conclusively. You are going to have to study some of the technical papers and decide for yourself. Here is a link that might be useful: Iron Oxides and Rust