Growing Up

The other day, we decided to build a vertical pallet garden. 

Vertical gardens are great because you can grow a lot 

of plants using very little ground space,

which is especially good if you are sun or space limited.

We don't happen to have either problem

but instead just wanted to plant one because they are pretty

and we had an extra pallet.

Step one was to reinforce the back.

To do this, we used some old trim that has been waiting 

to go to the dump.

(Dump run, no longer needed!)

 Next, we stapled on some landscape fabric

(several layers to make it nice and strong)

 Then we hired a cute kid to fill the pallet with dirt...

 and plant it with some pretty plants.

 After it was planted, we left it laying on the ground for 2 weeks

so the roots could take hold of the soil.

The last step was to pick it up

(they are really heavy!)

and prop it against the house.

Waahhllahh!