Thursday, May 31, 2012

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


Wednesday, May 30, 2012

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

Monday, May 28, 2012

Saturday, May 26, 2012

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

Friday, May 25, 2012

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

Monday, May 21, 2012

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