Put your signature on one of these wood pallet garden ideas and upcycle them with a few tools and a little sweat equity. Many herbs, greens, and flowers grow well in a pallet garden, including micro greens, parsley, thyme, basil, rosemary, pansies, and petunias.
Because pallet boards are thin and already weathered, a bit of preparation can help your path last beyond a few seasons. Rather than laying the pallet wood directly on the soil, excavate the area a few inches underneath the path and backfill with gravel. This will help water drain away from your path, preventing rot. It may also inhibit weed growth in and around your path.
Wood Pallet Garden Walkway from Funky Junk Interiors
Building furniture from wood pallets requires some shooting from the hip, but the results are limited only by your carpentry skills. Look for free woodworking plans or YouTube tutorials to remove some of the guesswork. Once you’ve mastered the bench-making basics, you may even decide to attempt a garden rocker or recliner.
Wood Pallet Garden Bench from Our House Now a Home
Wood Pallet Garden Swing from The Merrythought
Line your raised bed with landscape fabric to keep the soil from migrating out when you irrigate your plants. The ideal height of a raised bed is 6 to 12 inches, but you can go higher if you reinforce the walls with staking to prevent outward bowing.
Wood Pallet Raised Garden Bed from Ma Passion Du Verger
Gardeners with small plots can get by with a single bin, but those with larger spaces can reap the benefits of an open-sided three-bin system constructed of pallets. The first bin holds fresh garden waste and kitchen scraps, the second bin is used for moving and turning the decomposing materials, and the third bin holds finished compost ready for use. A three-bin pallet system isn’t much to look at, but you can pretty it up by planting a few flowering vines around the outside, which will flourish from the nutrients within the bins.
Wood Pallet Compost Bin from Lovely Greens
Wood Pallet Wall Planter from Creative Homemaking
Wood Pallet Garden Cart from Serendipity Refined
Wood Pallet Planter Box from Her Tool Belt
Long fences face stability issues, but Realeyes Homestead addressed that by adding support pallets in an “H” pattern. The addition of some plastic bird netting can add a layer of pest-excluding protection to your wood pallet garden fence.
Wood Pallet Garden Fence from Realeyes Homestead
