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20/10/2014

It’s a little while since I posted examples of useful (and attractive) garden or other outside projects created from recycled pallets or other materials. Here’s the first of a few posts by way of an update, courtesy of the Facebook site 1001 Pallets.

Old School Gardener

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Latest Garden Recycling Projects

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03/04/2014

It’s been a while since I gathered together examples of garden and outdoor projects involving the use of recycled or upcycled materials. The previous posts have continued to prove popular. Here’s another set of projects from the beautiful, through the practical to the completely wacky!

: Cooped up, half -timbered style..

: Signs of spring?

: How to use bottomless wicker baskets

: A garden entired…

: Pallet table with centre planting feature

: Fun plant pot

: Planting rack and planter made out of pallets

: Bottle and Bamboo greenhouse

: A playground from pallets

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Tags: art, container, diy, furniture, garden, garden projects, gardening, pallets, planter, projects, recycling, sustainability, upcycling

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Pallets Into Gardeners’ Delights

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10/02/2014

Using pallets and other recycled materials to create useful garden equipment and features seems to have really taken off in the last year- at least the posts I’ve made to Old School Garden during that time are among my most popular.

My own exploits to date have been limited to a set of vertical planters, shortly to be used as mini raised beds for some young children at my local primary school. Following a bit of a reorganisation of outside stores here at the Old School, I have a redundant wooden bicycle rack which looks perfect as the base for a ‘plant theatre’ so I might get round to doing that as the days lengthen and (hopefully) the air warms up. In the meantime here’s the latest batch of ideas I’ve gleaned from Facebook sites like 1001 pallets, urban gardens, container gardening and the like. Enjoy!

First some sheds, shacks and greenhouses….

Recycled windows greenhouse

Stylish pallet shed (or hobbit home?)

Shack from reclaimed wood

Pallet play hut

Airy (?) pallet shed

Next a few planters…..

Upright pallet box planters

Pallet wall frame for pots

Pallet vertical case for pots

Pallet planters in the shade

A patio pallet planter- herbs for instance?

‘A’ frame planters from, you guessed it…pallets

And now some serious outdoor building work…..

A new balcony frame

Fencing

An outside shower

Beautiful patio surface from recycled wood

Finally a few odds and ends…..

Ahoy there!!

Wonderful ‘musical’ play frame

A natty garden shelf/table

Designer seat from pallets

A pallet rocker

Ahoy there again! – arbour from an old boat

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06/02/2014

How to build a Cold Frame

‘Spring is around the corner and it will soon be time to start sowing seeds.

For those of us who haven’t got a greenhouse, (especially a nice warm one like our editor Maddy’s, who has been using her hot bin composter to keep her greenhouse above freezing all winter), the unpredictable weather can have a huge impact on when we start our seeds. With the possibility of late frosts, seeds can be easily damaged, right through to April and May.

So making a cold frame is a great way to start off your seeds in a warmer and more protected environment, until they are strong enough to be planted out in the unpredictable weather……’

Great idea from Permaculture Magazine – click on the title link for further information and other useful links

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Tags: climate, cold frame, diy, projects, propagation, protection, seedlings, seeds, weather

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13/01/2014

Here’s my latest trawl of interesting projects to enhance your garden. Most are from 1001 Pallets and a few from The Container Gardening Alliance.

Furniture…

A log lounger..

Baby chair from pallets…

Swinging bench from pallets..

Planting spaces…

A greenhouse from old windows…

A planter ladder….

An ‘A’ frame planter with old plastixc bottles, and cartons as containers..

‘Rustic raised beds’ !!

An experimental pallet garden..

Give plants a hand..

Drawers for plants…

Raised planter for my aching back…

and a few more unusual items….

A mobile bar – stools stowed underneath..

Old shutters used for decorative screening/fencing

Canadian rustic retreat..

Pallet Meeting Point..

Tool rack from pallets by Kylee Baumie at mylittleacre.com

Pallet bug hotel..

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12/11/2013

Ultimate Guide to Upcycling with Pallets

A useful visual guide to all you need to know for that pallet project of yours!!

Old School Gardener

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08/07/2013

Pallet sizes – a handy guide for all you diy enthusiasts!

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Tag Archive: projects

It’s a little while since I posted examples of useful (and attractive) garden or other outside projects created from recycled pallets or other materials. Here’s the first of a few posts by way of an update, courtesy of the Facebook site 1001 Pallets.

Old School Gardener

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It’s been a while since I gathered together examples of garden and outdoor projects involving the use of recycled or upcycled materials. The previous posts have continued to prove popular. Here’s another set of projects from the beautiful, through the practical to the completely wacky!

Old School Gardener

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Using pallets and other recycled materials to create useful garden equipment and features seems to have really taken off in the last year- at least the posts I’ve made to Old School Garden during that time are among my most popular.

First some sheds, shacks and greenhouses….

Recycled windows greenhouse Stylish pallet shed (or hobbit home?) Shack from reclaimed wood Pallet play hut Airy (?) pallet shed

Next a few planters…..

And now some serious outdoor building work…..

Finally a few odds and ends…..

Old School Gardener

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‘Spring is around the corner and it will soon be time to start sowing seeds.

So making a cold frame is a great way to start off your seeds in a warmer and more protected environment, until they are strong enough to be planted out in the unpredictable weather……’

Great idea from Permaculture Magazine – click on the title link for further information and other useful links

Old School Gardener

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Here’s my latest trawl of interesting projects to enhance your garden. Most are from 1001 Pallets and a few from The Container Gardening Alliance.

Furniture…

Planting spaces…

and a few more unusual items….

Old School Gardener

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A useful visual guide to all you need to know for that pallet project of yours!!

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Recycled windows greenhouse

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Shack from reclaimed wood

Pallet play hut

Airy (?) pallet shed