Pallet Mania

I saw pallets behind a local store and was thinking about fences. So I looked it up on the internet and, yes, you can build a small picket fence from pallets. You can also build an outdoor chair, other outdoor furniture, a daybed, and so much more.

How to build a picket fence out of old pallets

Pallet Fence aka Inexpensive

A pallet chair , I made all by myself

Pallets as building materials

Pallets used for outdoor furniture

Ashley's pallet daybed

Wood Pallet Creations

Pallets and more pallets

Pallet Herb Garden

I can't seem to get away from Pallet Gardens right now. Here's one more that encorperates plastic bottles, kind of like the Horta Vertical video I linked earlier this week:

Build an Herb Garden Out of a Shipping Pallette

Selecting Pallets for Gardening

Since we're on the subject of pallets, here's a little more info from a guy who doesn't seem to like landscape fabric:

Building a Vertical Pallet Garden

I Love Lavender

I planted some in a container this spring for the first time. I wanted to learn about it, watch it grow, and perhaps even become a Lavender expert, if possible. To help myself in this new endeavor, I've located some blog posts by Sara Elliot that I want to link here for my future reference:

Growing Lavender

 Understanding the Different Types of Lavender

Keeping Lavender Indoors

Propagating Lavender

Growing, Keeping, and Propagating Lavender

Another Take on the Pallet Garden

Here is another Pallet Garden. But this gal comes at it from a different angle. No wait. It's still a vertical garden. She just doesn't fill the whole thing with soil but rather makes individual pockets. It's very interesting:

How to Plant a Pallet Garden

Strawberries on the Wall

I thought this one was real interesting, easy, and cost effective:

Growing Strawberries on Your Wall

Natural Gardening

Now for something completely different.

As I mentioned in my introduction post, my husband and I are in possession of both a home in town with limited space and some disturbed and/or undeveloped land out in the country. So I'm looking at polar opposites in gardening. What we do in town is highly controlled and not considered natural. But with limited space we have little choice.

But our land out in the country, old quarry land, what we do in town will not work with what we have in the country. We haven't done much so far mostly because we don't know what to do. So I'm open to many ideas at this point.

One idea:
One Straw Farming
One Straw, pt 2

The Basics of Natural Farming
The Basics of Natural Farming, pt 2

Horta Vertical... What?

I found this youtube video and wanted to link it here so I can find it again. It's all in Spanish so I have no idea what they are saying. But it has excellent pictures of a vertical gardening system that might actually be doable and maintainable for me.

Horta Vertical

Using Risers in Gardens

Sometimes the ingenuity of third world gardeners amazes me. I like looking a the way they 'recycle' things that we throw away:

Risers in Container Gardening

Vertical Pallet Garden with Chef Janie

Here is an idea that I saw on youtube. I do not know how practical it is for us at this time. But I really like the idea and I love hearing gardening ideas from chefs since the majority of the gardening my husband and I do is for food:

Building a Vertical Pallet Garden with Chef Janie

Intro Post

My husband and I garden. We love it. We also like thinking outside the box.

Right now my husband is doing both traditional gardening and some Square Foot Gardening.

We have a house in town with limited space so we like space saving ideas for gardening. I've been looking a little closer to vertical gardening and thought I might like to try different ways to garden up since we don't have a lot of room to spread out.

But we also have some undeveloped land out in the country that I'd like to figure out what to do with and I've noted a few things that I'd like to try out there so it seemed limiting to just make this all about vertical or small space gardening.

I have this blog mostly to just keep notes for myself. But if any info on here is helpful to anyone else, that's fine with me.