Anyone have a vertical garden from wooden pallets?
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gastone21 (z7a VA)
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Comments (15)Do you get a lot of summer rain? Narrow planting boxes like those, and especially ones made out of wood, will need an enormous amount of water. In my climate, I would have to water two or three times a day, every day. If you don't have daily rain in summer, you might consider lining them with sheets of plastic or pieces of tarps, with a few drain holes. I did this for similar boxes and it helped. They still needed a ton of water, even in the shade....See Morerecycling wooden pallets
Comments (15)Even though this original post is old the problems of this nature exist all over the mainland as well as Hawaii where 90% of everyday goods are imported. So there is no practical way to ship 10% out with 90% coming in. The challenge is to think of ways to recycle things locally and use locally but our global economy continues to defy this. I am a garden center manager in Texas now but lived in Hawaii for 10 years so I understand the situation there first hand. I give my extra pallets away so they won't go in the landfill. Over the last year this has worked well overall. I am trying to do the same for surplus cardboard (offering it for free to customers for mulching, lasagne gardening, whatever use people can think of instead seeing it all go in the waste stream. Some of my growers get beer flats that they send their 1 gallon plants in and if I can remove them before they get wet, I send them back out the door with purchased plants. How many ways can you think of to reuse something that ends up in the trash is one less thing thrown away and added to a landfill. We all need to look to do our part in more ways when we can. Think outside the box or pallet as it were:) Happy Growing David...See Morewood pallet mulch
Comments (2)Do you know if it is pine pallet or oak pallet mulch? We get both down here and have had some problems with the pine stuff floating and washing away. I prefer the oak if you have a choice as it is longer lasting. Other than that I'm not aware of any serious problems with either other than the keep away from direct contact with the house foundation guideline. Dave...See Morewooden pallets
Comments (6)Snakes I don't have on LI, but we did have them upstate and not always the benevolent types. Snakes just LOVE lumber and logs ;-( My first thought was pill-bugs which are numerous here and also love lumber and logs. Can you drive some rebar into the soil and tie the cages to the rebar and weave the stems into the upright pallets? Depending upon the pallet type, you might have to remove some of the slats, but you could indeed use them as supports if they are vertical instead of horizontal....See Morevegpatch
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