DIY Rain Boots Garden On A Fence. If you have a fence in your backyard it’s a good idea to use it as a vertical garden. There are several ways to do that. For example you can make shadow boxes that will support your planters. Or you can make some cute planters that will be able to withstand rain without getting spoilt. For example you can make a cute and colorful vertical garden using rain boots as planters. You need several pairs of rain boots in different colors.
Such vertical garden can be installed anywhere at your backyard. DIY Colorful Vertical Garden On A Fence. In case you have a dull wooden fence at your backyard you can easily spice up it. You can make a colorful vertical garden of it. Tools and materials Terra-cotta potsPainter’s tapeSpray paintFlowerpot hangersWood screwsTape measurePencilCordless drillWood screws Instructions Using painter’s tape, tape off the rim of each pot.
How To Decorate Your Fence Using Stencils. If you don’t like the look of the fence from your backyard you need to decorate it. You can hang shadow boxes or planters on it but you can also paint some patterns on it using stencils. For such project you’ll need stencils you like, sidewalk chalk and masking tape. In case you want the permanent solution you can use spray paint instead of chalk. The process of decorating is very simple. Tape stencil to fence where you want to have the pattern using masking tape and apply chalk. Repeat this as many times as you want. DIY Outdoor Vertical Garden.
Looking for more space to place some flowers at your patio? Here is a way to make an attractive vertical garden on a budget. Such vertical garden would be especially great for urban dwellers where you haven’t plenty of space to grow. It also can become a nice space divider or privacy screen on a large terrace too. As you can see this vertical garden is made of gutter and only needs some hook to hang it. On aHa! Home & Garden you can find the list of tools, materials and step-by-step instructions how to make this modern gutter garden. DIY Vertical Garden Made Of A Pallet. If you have a small balcony or a small terrace than it probably is already overflowed with plants.
The best way to add some more is to organize some plants vertically. Nowadays you can buy systems to organize vertical gardens from different manufacturers but who want to spend money if there is the possibility not to. For example you can use a wood pallet as a platform for your vertical garden. This way such garden will be almost free for you. Fern Richardson from Life on the Balcony has done such vertical garden and showed us how. She used a pallet, 2 large bags of potting soil, 16 six packs of annual flowers, a small roll of landscape fabric, a staple gun, staples, and sand paper.
DIY Bird Feeder From A Recycled Bottle. There are many stylish handmade bird feeders on the market nowadays. If you don’t want to spend money on such thing than you can make one by yourself. Some wood, a hook, some wire, a plastic bottle and a glass bottle with a screw cap are things you need for that. You’ll get something you can hang anywhere in your backyard that will refill automatically when birds feast on it. Cut two pieces of wood and fix them together using screws or dowels at a right angle. How To Grow Vegetables Vertically. Anne Phillips of Go Green Gardeners has come up with a great idea to grow vegetables vertically.
She created a vertical salad garden, which is about 2.5 feet wide and nearly 5 feet tall. She used a French riddling rack, boards with slanted holes in which fermenting bottles of sparkling wine were perched nearly upside down, so yeast could collect in the neck and be removed. She wrapped the backside of each plant with coconut coir fiber, the kind typically used to line hanging baskets, and then packed dirt around the roots. The salad garden she created looks quite good to put it on a deck or patio. Even though not all plants work in this kind of setup it’s practical anyway. Besides, you can use the idea and make such vertical garden from wood boards.