Strawberry Pallets
I've got four pallets around from when I thought I was going to use them to make a potato tower. Yeah, that didn't happen. Over the winter, I ran across the idea of making them into vertical planters for strawberries. Turns out, a couple of the pallets I have aren't all that great for doing vertical planting - no slats across the back or the slats are mostly rotten. But I decided two of the pallets are in good enough shape to give this a try. Maybe we'll break the rest of them up into bits and just let them finish rotting.
Michael helped me stretch the landscape cloth over the back, and I stapled the heck out of it.
We managed to get over to the nursery a little before they closed. They had just enough strawberry plants for the smaller pallet. We also got a couple of bags of soil.
One bag of soil was exactly right for the 3x3' pallet. I'm guessing it'll take two bags for the larger one. I'll also need far more strawberry plants, or figure out another plant or two to put in there. I'm trying hard to stick with the Portland-native plant list for the Backyard Habitat Certification program we're working on.
Now it just lays there as the plant roots get established. Ideally, the roots will grow enough to help hold the soil in the pallet when I get the whole thing propped up on its side. I've got a couple of pieces of rebar to help keep the pallet propped up once it's there, as I don't trust the thing to stay standing up on a skinny little side all on its own. If this all works right, the pallets will make sort of half-sized walls to a little gazebo-like structure we have in the backyard.
Michael helped me stretch the landscape cloth over the back, and I stapled the heck out of it.
We managed to get over to the nursery a little before they closed. They had just enough strawberry plants for the smaller pallet. We also got a couple of bags of soil.
One bag of soil was exactly right for the 3x3' pallet. I'm guessing it'll take two bags for the larger one. I'll also need far more strawberry plants, or figure out another plant or two to put in there. I'm trying hard to stick with the Portland-native plant list for the Backyard Habitat Certification program we're working on.
Now it just lays there as the plant roots get established. Ideally, the roots will grow enough to help hold the soil in the pallet when I get the whole thing propped up on its side. I've got a couple of pieces of rebar to help keep the pallet propped up once it's there, as I don't trust the thing to stay standing up on a skinny little side all on its own. If this all works right, the pallets will make sort of half-sized walls to a little gazebo-like structure we have in the backyard.