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Since sharing pictures and ideas for making garden things from pallets or other recycled wood, I’ve come across a super Facebook site ‘1001 pallets’ – take a look and you won’t be disappointed! For now here are a few more cunning ideas for projects from pallets – just click on the images for links to tutorials or instructions.
Do you have any of your own pallet projects to share?
Sandpit made out of pallets http://bit.ly/16RX7Ve
Coldframe http://bit.ly/13Dceza
Chicken coop : http://bit.ly/10r4Urk
Bin shelter : http://bit.ly/116nzoU
Garden swing armchair : http://bit.ly/1138i7a
Pink lounge http://bit.ly/19JnIFA
Salad planter :http://bit.ly/1aASgH4
Pallet wheelbarrow http://bit.ly/13fSbpC
Pallet planters in the streets ! http://bit.ly/12rdS5P
Lounger cheir
Decking and steps from the alotmentshed
Fruit crates from pallets: http://endofordinary.blogspot.ca/2010/05/how-to-make-fruit-crates-from-pallets.html
Potting bench from pallets by Nicole Koller
Tutorial to make a kid’s hut from pallets http://bit.ly/1b2UfqP
Garden furniture – Salon de Jardin http://bit.ly/18ohgox
Patio chair and storage box http://bit.ly/10cSO4y
Pallets and crates as a planter tower http://bit.ly/10zgVwM
Links:
1001 pallets
How to tell if a pallet is safe for reuse
Other articles about using pallets in the garden:
Pallet Projects – more creative ideas
Polished Primary Pallet Planters
Pallets Plus – more examples of recycled wood in the garden
Pallet Power- the sequel
Pallet Power
Raised beds on the cheap
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I’m involved in this exciting new learning opportunity in a local Norfolk village, offering courses in growing food and garden design.
If you’re around come along and see me:)
This week’s questioner has been offered a second greenhouse…an offer too good to be refused?
GQT this week comes from Mr. Herb E.Vore of Field Dalling, Norfolk. Herb asks:
‘A friend has offered me his small greenhouse free. I have space to spare – but I have one green house already. Apart from extra capacity, what are the advantages of a second greenhouse?’
Well Herb, the chief advantage is that you can create two quite different environments – one, perhaps, devoted to a special purpose or to growing plants such as orchids, alpines, carnations and the like which do not thrive in the sort of environment you probaly create in your present greenhouse (assuming it’s used to propagate plants, grow tomatoes etc.).
A second greenhouse would also be useful to keep as a conservatory for the display of decorative plants, and quite separate from the placed used for the vital, visually less interesting jobs of propagation and growing – on. Bear in mind, however, that even if you have the room (or time or money) for only one greenhouse, you may be able to create at least two different environments by dividing the structure into two compartments (with a heavy clear plastic sheet as a divider, for example).
A second greenhouse offers the chance of presenting choice plants 
J.R.Tolkien had an alpine house- one use of a second greenhouse
A second greenhouse offers the chance of presenting choice plants
J.R.Tolkien had an alpine house- one use of a second greenhouse
And while we’re talking about greenhouses its useful to think in terms of using it all the year round by thinking ahead and producing an annual schedule. As an example:
- Start in spring with the sowing of bedding plants and planting summer to autumn flowering bulbs
- In summer, cuttings can be taken of summer to autumn flowering pot plants, and crops such as tomatoes, sweet peppers, cucumbers and melons can be grown
- With the approach of autumn, Chrysanthemums and other tender plants can be moved in
- Winter can continue to be colourful from sowings of suitable plants made during summer. There is also a number of useful winter salad crops you can grow during the ‘dark times’, for example lettuces
You may not be offered a second greenhouse, but maybe you can build one yourself?
Link: 10 Greenhouses you can build yourself
If you have any gardening questions that you think I might help with, then please email me at nbold@btinternet.com
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