Recycle Pallet Boards and Nursery Pots To Make Neat Planters

This is one of my favorite garden DIY projects! 

We first made these five years ago and they are still going strong all year long in our garden.

It is cheap, fairly easy to do and gives me the BIG planters pots I want for my yard.

We noticed the big pile of empty tree pots at our local nursery and bought

 a couple of 15 gallon size for $6 each. 

We already had a pile of boards from dismantled pallets,

 so already this project is right up my alley...

CHEAP!

Here are the finished planters. 

I LOVE the different shades of the used boards and the rough grain. 

These nursery pots have a generous lip around the top which make

 the finished planters look neat.Before....and after!

The Welding Man trimmed each board to fit and we attached them

 with our handy nail gun using brads.

The nail gun runs on a small air compressor. 

It's one of my favorite tools for projects like this.

Just look at the neat colors and wood grain!

Sarlac Pit?

Here's how the brads look once the boards are attached. 

We used long ones so they would penetrate all the way thru and

 give us a generous length to bend down inside the planter. 

We used a block of wood and a pair of needle nose pliers for this part. 

This is the largest tree pot we've redone.

 It is 22 gallon, I believe, and it holds a full size rose bush aand two Walkers Low Catmint plants. 

We dry brushed it withour house trim paint and added a 

mitered board frame around the top for a nice finishing touch.

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DIY Solar Light Hanging Planter Pole

I saw a planter pole with a solar light on top and knew I wanted one for our yard.

But I didn't want to spend over $120 for one with only two hangers

 and a mingy bottom planter. So, we built

 one ourselves and saved almost $100!

Here's the finished project. A solid 6' tall post with four metal plant hangers and a cool solar powered light on top. It's anchored inside a 25 gallon planter and it came out even nicer than I pictured!

        And here it is pictured below at night with the solar light glowing.

 So pretty!

Here she is below all loaded up with hanging planters and flowers in the bottom tub. 

We painted the pallet boards we attached to the bottom planter and 

also put up a pallet board fence topped with pickets 

(and a butterfly!) right there in her corner.

                    

Here she is ready for her test run. Already she has a classy silhouette. 

The Welding Man made the hanging hooks for this.

And...progress photos below. The solar light installation and the

 planter positioned in the flower tub.

Below is the solar light and the thrift store porch light The Welding Man deconstructed

 then restyled into the top solar light. You can see what he kept and what he tossed.

It turned out GREAT!

          
             

Oooh ahhh, we love it!

               

Here's the supply and $$ breakdown for this  easy project....

Pressure treated 4" x 4" post cut off at 6'...........................$14

25 gallon tree pot................................................................ $6

Solar light ............................................................................$6

Thrift store porch light..........................................................$3

Four plant hangers, on hand

Pallet boards, on hand

This project turned out so well and was so inexpensive we are going to make another one!