Palette Garden

This is by far the biggest project I have done to date!

I got this idea from Pintrest after searching around for some fun, creative crafty things to do and I stumbled upon this.

Supplies!

My cousin was building a house last summer and they had a lot of theses shipping palettes that were just going to go in the trash when my creative gears started grinding and that's when I came up with the idea for a Palette Garden.

Now yes you may have noted that I mentioned "last summer" and the fact that I am writing this post means yes I just completed it but that is besides the point... Let me also note that I am in no way shape or form an experienced gardener and am merely doing this as an experiment, hopefully it will be a successful one, but only time will tell. Moving on...

I started by washing the palettes. This may seem counterproductive but seeing as they have been sitting outside for almost a year there is not telling what has been in or on them so better safe than sorry seeing as I am growing things I would like to one day eat.

After washing the palettes I start stapling landscape fabric to the bottom and sides of the palettes to prevent weeds and to hold the soil and seeds in place.

Squash and Zucchini seeds

I placed the palettes side-by-side and began filling them with soil. This was by far the hardest part because the spaces are so tight that I had to take a lot of time to fill each one, water it, place the seeds, then add more soil, then finally water again, and those bags are not light! After all the soil was poured in I watered again for good measure and stepped back and admired all of my hard work.!

I decided to plant some salad spring mix, carrots, tomatoes, zucchini, squash, red pepper and cucumbers. I am really hoping that everything grows into delicious, edible organic veggies.

UPDATE: There has been amazing growth in my zucchini, squash and cucumber areas!! The row with my red peppers has yet to show it's pretty little face but everything else is looking pretty good.




 Keep you updated : )


Simply Me,

Ashley Marie