How-To: Vertical Pallet Garden

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By Matt Richardson
Posted 2011/05/21 @ 5:54 am
Category Gardening, Home

At MAKE, we’ve featured our fair share of skid-based projects, but I really like this particularly green pallet project by Fern at Life on the Balcony. She created an excellent and detailed step-by-step guide on how to turn a pallet into a vertical garden. [via Recyclart]

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BY Matt Richardson

Matt Richardson is a Brooklyn-based creative technologist, contributing editor for MAKE magazine, and co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi. He's also the owner of Awesome Button Studios, a technology consultancy. Highlights from his work include the Descriptive Camera (a camera which outputs a text description instead of a photo) and The Enough Already (a DIY celebrity-silencing device). Matt's work has been featured at The Nevada Museum of Art, The Rome International Photography Festival, Milan Design Week and has garnered attention from The New York Times, Wired, and New York Magazine.

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19 Responses to How-To: Vertical Pallet Garden

wes on May 22nd, 2011 at 3:18 am said:

I wouldn’t do this with food crops. Most pallets treated to prevent fungal decay and insect damage with methyl bromide or tribromophenol. Neither are good for you. Tribromophenol can also break down into a compound called TBA. It’s nasty smelling and will taint the vegetables.

Some pallets are heat treated and stamped with HT. Those might be ok, but they may also contain chemicals.

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- Ross McCauley on May 22nd, 2011 at 9:21 am said:
  
  Good advice! One could easily make a pallet or really a thick and strong trellis.
  
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- Ross McCauley on May 22nd, 2011 at 9:21 am said:
  
  Good advice! One could easily make a pallet or really a thick and strong trellis.
  
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Used Plastic Pallet on June 10th, 2011 at 10:13 am said:

This is cool! And so interested! Are u have more
posts like this? Please tell me, thanks

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Used Plastic Pallet on June 10th, 2011 at 10:13 am said:

This is cool! And so interested! Are u have more
posts like this? Please tell me, thanks

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Used Plastic Pallet on June 10th, 2011 at 10:13 am said:

This is cool! And so interested! Are u have more
posts like this? Please tell me, thanks

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Used Plastic Pallet on June 10th, 2011 at 10:13 am said:

This is cool! And so interested! Are u have more
posts like this? Please tell me, thanks

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Used Plastic Pallet on June 10th, 2011 at 10:13 am said:

This is cool! And so interested! Are u have more
posts like this? Please tell me, thanks

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Used Plastic Pallet on June 10th, 2011 at 10:13 am said:

This is cool! And so interested! Are u have more
posts like this? Please tell me, thanks

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Ethel Gray on August 19th, 2011 at 2:23 am said:

I only have small space in our house for gardening so it’s really amazing idea, I’ve seen in a garden show about the woolly pockets system but using pallet gives a wonderful effect.

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Ethel Gray on August 19th, 2011 at 2:23 am said:

I only have small space in our house for gardening so it’s really amazing idea, I’ve seen in a garden show about the woolly pockets system but using pallet gives a wonderful effect.

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Ethel Gray on August 19th, 2011 at 2:23 am said:

I only have small space in our house for gardening so it’s really amazing idea, I’ve seen in a garden show about the woolly pockets system but using pallet gives a wonderful effect.

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Ethel Gray on August 19th, 2011 at 2:23 am said:

I only have small space in our house for gardening so it’s really amazing idea, I’ve seen in a garden show about the woolly pockets system but using pallet gives a wonderful effect.

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