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Build your own indoor mini greenhouse – looks like a job for someone beyond basic skill level!Ultimate Guide to Upcycling with Pallets
A useful visual guide to all you need to know for that pallet project of yours!!
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- Via Grow Veg – This ‘Eathouse’ is constructed of metal scaffolding pipes and soil-stuffed crates which are planted up with vegetables, herbs and edible flowers:
http://www.archdaily.com/98895/eathouse-de-stuurlui-stedenbouw-atelier-gras/
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Well, here we go again. The wonderful Facebook site 1001 pallets has come up with a another set of super examples of how you can usefully up cycle wooden pallets into garden objects or features (plus a couple of other recycling examples from different sites).
First furniture…
Next planters…
Finally, the weird and wonderful!
Related articles:
How to dismantle a wooden pallet
Even more pallet projects
More pallet projects
Recycling in the Garden: widening the net
Even more Pallet Power
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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Here are a few more pallet projects for the garden/outside. Once again I’m amazed at the ingenuity and skill of the people who make these wonderful objects.
All images from 1001 pallets
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‘A great photographic step-by-step guide to building an obelisk. What will you grow up it once it’s built?’
via Growveg
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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