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Pyramide. Pyramid of strawberries. Cultures verticales. Britta Riley : un jardin dans mon appartement. The father of vertical farming - economist.com/video. How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden. Good news and bad news. I had planned to film a short video showing you how to make a pallet garden, but the weather didn’t cooperate. I was stapling the landscape fabric onto the pallet when it started drizzling and got really windy. That’s the bad news. But I know I promised a tutorial today, so I took photos and have kept my word to share how to make the pallet garden. So keep reading my pallet loving friends, instructions on how to make your own pallet garden are just a few lines away… Find a Pallet The first thing you need to do is–obviously–find a pallet.

Don’t just take the first pallet you find. Collect Your Supplies For this project, you’ll need the pallet you found, 2 large bags of potting soil, 16 six packs of annual flowers (one six pack per opening on the face of the pallet, and two six packs per opening on the top of the completed pallet garden), a small roll of landscape fabric, a staple gun, staples, and sand paper. Get Your Pallet into Shape Let the Stapling Begin! Vertical Veg – inspiring and supporting food growing in tiny spaces. Les Potagers Verticaux de la Coummunauté des Peits Prophetes. DIY vertical garden. Vertical spaces in small yards or patios need no longer go to waste with the latest repurposing/DIY trend of building a vertical garden. It’s a great way to further green your living spaces and putting to good use all those pallets past their prime. While there are a number of tutorials out there for building your own, these particular directions courtesy of Steph Lawrence at The Local Spoon are some of the easier we’ve seen and make for a great fall project to ready for spring planting in less temperate climates.

Full story at The Local Spoon via Neatorama. Anywhere gardening.