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Build your own indoor mini greenhouse – looks like a job for someone beyond basic skill level!
My previous articles on using pallets and other recycled materials (mainly wood) in the garden have proved to be very popular. I couldn’t resist throwing the net a bit wider and so have put together a mix of different, ingenious ideas using a range of recycled materials.
Tell me what you think! And please let me have pictures of your own recycling projects for future features!
forks, spoons and what not- tasteful garden art
A novel take on the recycled plastic bottle greenhouse
Wine boxes become ‘bird cathedrals’ from recyclart.com
A stylish herb shelf from painted pallets- could be good as a plant ‘theatre’ for displying prize specimens
When is a spade not a spade? – when it’s a plant stand..
And more plastic bottles put to good use as planters
I love the vibrancy of this outdoor table made from pallets!
Pallets make a handy moveable seating and table set
Spoons to windchime
Other articles you might be interested in:
PicPost: Pallet to Strawberry planter
Pallet Projects – more creative ideas
Polished Primary Pallet Planters
Pallets Plus – more examples of recycled wood in the garden
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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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Shipping container greenhouse – urban farm unit by Damien Chivialle
What goes on underneath the greenhouse (heating?)?
Does the whole thing rotate on the turntable its standing on?
My previous articles and pictures on projects in the garden using wooden pallets or other recycled wood have featured some wonderful ideas. I’ve been amazed by the response and the articles seem to have also stimulated projects, not only in my own gardening activities, but for other gardeners, some of whom have sent me pictures of their creations. So here is the latest batch of Pallet Projects for you to look at, think about and maybe emulate!
Keep your ideas and pictures coming in!
Cut down pallets being used in construction of a raised bed inside one of ‘Growing Spaces’ greenhouses
The result after lining the wall with metal (inside) and chicken wire and black paper with render to the outside.
A play teepee made out of natural wood and recycled pallets
A compost bin made out of pallets by Katherine Jacobs. The front fits snuggly into the sides and is removable. Katherine isn’t sure about the bag- it was suggested as a way of keeping the compost warm and preventing ‘too much’ air getting in- I’m not convinced its a benefit.
My own attempt at a Trellis screen made from two pallets fixed to posts in a public garden for under fives. The screen has diamond trellis fitted to the back, has been stained and will have climbing Nasturtums growing up it.
Other articles about using pallets in the garden:
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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