How to make your own vertical pallet garden
Create a garden in an otherwise unused space with this homemade pallet garden. You could grow colourful flowers or even herbs to use in the kitchen.
You will need:
- Timber pallet
- Nails
- Hammer
- Scrap timber
- Sheet of plywood
- Weed mat
- Scissors
- Staple gun
- 5 bags of potting mix
- Plants
- Gardening gloves
- Drill
- Dynabolts
How to:
1. To keep the soil from falling out of the bottom of the pallet you will first need to cover it. To do this, nail a scrap piece of timber along the full length of the bottom of your pallet.
2. Nail a sheet of plywood to the back of your pallet to hold the soil in.
3. Make sacks to hold your plants inside the pallet. Cut the weed matting into 4 equal rectangles that will fit inside the pallet. Place 2 rectangles together and use a staple gun to staple along 3 sides to make a sack. Repeat with the rest of the rectangles.
4. Lean your pallet against the wall and place your sacks inside. Fill each sack with potting mix, patting down to compact it. Then fold over tops of the sacks and staple them closed.
5. Place your pallet on the ground somewhere that it can sit safely for several weeks.
6.Cut holes in the weed matting, dig a space in the potting mix for the plants, and place a plant in each hole.
7. Water the plants well and then leave them to rest in place for 2 weeks until the plants have had time to develop root strength. Water them during this time.
8. Use a drill and dynabolts to secure the pallet to a wall. Enjoy your new pallet garden.
Image credit: Stepahnie Booth Flickr
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