Vertical gardens are all the rage these days, but buying everything you need for a decent looking setup can get quite expensive. Fortunately, where there’s a will there’s a way (and a cost-effective DIY version): a space-saving vertical garden is as easy as finding a pallet!
Fern Richardson of the blog Life on the Balcony shares this tutorial for making your own vertical garden from discarded pallets*. It’s a pretty simple project that would be a great thing to tackle on one of these fine Spring weekends! First, of course, you’ll need your supplies:
- 1 pallet
- 2 large bags of potting soil
- 16 six packs of annuals
- 1 small roll of landscape fabric
- staple gun
- sand paper
After you’ve gathered everything you need and acquired a pallet, it’s time to get down to business. Check out Life on the Balcony for the full tutorial and some more pretty photos!
Meanwhile, what flowers and/or plants are you excited to plant this year? Our yard needs some serious work, so I’ll be hitting up the local nurseries pretty soon. I can’t wait!
*Fern makes a good point about pallets: if you’re planning on growing anything edible, make sure you find a pallet that has been heat treated as opposed to fumigated. There are nasty, nasty chemicals in the fumigated kind that could find their way into your veggies.
Not that I’ll be using pallets in my home but I picked them up outside of a large outlet store in freezing weather. Would below freezing weather kill any potential bacteria? I also picked up a load of pallets from a cheese factory and my van smelt like curdled cheese for a few days. Maybe a coat of polyurethane or sealer would keep out potential bacteria. Or bleach. Anyhow, i’m not to concerned about the chemicals. Our foods are already poisoned as it is.