DIY Vertical Pallet Garden

Pallets are all over Pinterest where people make tables, sofas, even buildings out of them. We recently had two pallets from our paving project so Tim made a vertical pallet garden out of them.

After finding where we wanted our pallet stack, we dug a 3 feet deep and 12 inches round hole with a post hole digger and planted one 4x4 pressure-treated timber in the ground. We used the trusty post level to keep it plumb in all dimensions, and in the hole we dug poured one 80 lb bag of Sakrete.

The next day repeated the same process and waited till day 3 to stack and mount the 2 pallets.

We had to remove a few pieces of the front boards to create what we wanted, then stapled 1/4 inch metal screen under each place we wanted to make a planter. The air stapler did the job here! 

We used a piece of mesh screen to lay inside the pocket so potting mix would not come through, the material could be anything such as weed barrier or anything water permeable.

In one section we used 2 sections of boards together and did the same blocking process with stapling the screen, then laying the mesh inside. The potting mix was retained so this method of creating a planting space worked well. We'll let you know how it holds up in the long run.

All of the pockets were filled with potting mix, plants were added on the very top and bottom rows, and seed were planted in the middle. Plants were chosen that would climb or droop, as the very top row is a nice variety of lemon cucumber. We will no doubt try this again on our property as there is more room for vertical growth.

Plants/seeds included in this project:

•  Lemon cucumbers (plants; top row)
•  Moth beans (seeds; second row)
•  Nasturtiums (seeds; second row)
•  New Zealand spinach (seeds; third row)
•  Pot of gold chard (seeds; third row)
•  German chamomile (plants; bottom row)