Vertical garden

A good husband brings home stuff to recycle, listen to what I say...

That's how this all started. Here I was dreaming of a vertical garden made with pallets, so trending, right? But my hubby goes and brings these modules where they used to have fruit at his work, they were going to end up in the recycling center! I immediately started to picture our future vertical garden! They were still in good shape to repurpose before the recycling center and I'm glad they were given the opportunity to be in use a few more years! :)

So first of all, I had to sand all surfaces of the modules so I could paint them. I'm so economic that I even had a remaining of paint from when we painted the cabin!

I won't fool you! Each module took me around 3 hours, plus maybe 1 hour around the bins. This was due to the stripes of wood, I wanted them well done in the breaches since they will have to resist to a lot of raining!

For this fase I used:

• Electrical sander
• Sand paper
• Paint brushes
• Varnish
• Diluent (to clean the brushes after use)

The idea is to have letuce, cabage, tomato, peppers and herbs on the platforms and hang flowers on top, I still have to buy some plants...

To make the vases to hang with flowers I used the powdermilk boxes I still had from my baby and to protect the wood from rainwater I used some plastic packagings:

I hope this inspires you to make your own vertical garden :) You can chose herbs or vegetables you usually use daily for tea/salades/spices, this will help your grocery budget and will reduce packaging waste as you wont buy it so much from the shop. It's a win-win.:)))