Turn wooden pallets into a vertical mini garden, like a hanging garden in the air

Don't throw away discarded wooden pallets - they can all be suitably modified to become practical planting containers. Some gardening enthusiasts have turned old wooden pallets into vertical gardens and vegetable plots that look refined and beautiful, and they are really quite good for growing flowers.

The wooden pallet above is repainted, with small grooves made inside the boards. For the flowers, choose petunias (Petunia) that bloom very easily, paired with some golden-yellow marigolds (Tagetes), and it looks especially refined and beautiful.

The vertical garden above is actually made by stacking several flower pots together. Especially the deep gallon pots, which are very suitable for stacking together. Drill holes along the rim of the pots, then place the flower seedlings inside. Plant several Guernsey ferns (Impatiens hawkeri) of different flower colors, and it becomes a charming flower tower.

Some gardening enthusiasts also build a vertical garden of herb plants on the balcony, which is a good choice for friends with insufficient light. You can choose some shade-tolerant plants, such as coral bells (Heuchera), lilyturf (Ophiopogon), ornamental sweet potato, rosemary and thyme.

The method for making a wooden vertical pallet garden is also fairly simple. You just need to nail some wooden boards onto the overall structure of the wooden pallet to create grooves that can hold plants, fill them with soil, and then you can grow all kinds of flowers and plants.

The plants arranged on the wooden pallet above come in a great many varieties, including pansies on the lowest layer and purple-leaved wax begonias on the second layer, with some creeping dichondra paired on a single stem, as well as light purple lobelia. The whole planter looks especially bright and charming.

The arrangement above uses all foliage plants, mainly creeping plants, such as the common heartleaf ice plant (Aptenia cordifolia), mint, thyme, basil, coleus and dianthus.

Of course, it can also be used to grow strawberries, which is very suitable. The spare space beside them can be stuffed with some dry straw, which also helps retain water and lower the temperature, preventing the strawberry leaves from being scorched by too-strong light.

After suitable modification, the wooden pallet is filled with loose, well-draining humus soil, and then strawberry seedlings can be transplanted into it.

However, the vertical planters above all have a certain lifespan. Generally, after two or three years they become very worn and are also prone to loosening. I have also seen vertical gardens and vegetable plots made with water pipes: drill holes in a large water pipe, fix it onto a larger container, and then you can directly plant some easy-to-grow vegetables in the drilled holes.