05-01-2021, 09:37 PM
That should work as well. Here are our progress pics
First we cleaned out the area of old plants (saving many of them to reuse) and the soil was a rich loamy soil from us amending it several times in the past. The nearby tree also has sent roots up from underneath to get to watered soil so we also cleared it out. Then we set out the planters and began layering them up. Now you're supposed to use straw to keep soils from washing out. In the video, the pallet slats were much closer together than ours were so we did our best to keep straw in place. So hopefully once the plants fill out and everything settles in better it'll look nicer. We put 18 plants in each planter.
Note - this area you'll notice has been deer and bird proofed - a huge problem we have around here.
More progress will be posted as we go through the summer months with these basically freebie planters. Fingers crossed.
![[Image: 20210501-cleared-out-the-old-area.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/CPVhkT4/20210501-cleared-out-the-old-area.jpg)
![[Image: 20210501-planted.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/JqjxzpK/20210501-planted.jpg)
First we cleaned out the area of old plants (saving many of them to reuse) and the soil was a rich loamy soil from us amending it several times in the past. The nearby tree also has sent roots up from underneath to get to watered soil so we also cleared it out. Then we set out the planters and began layering them up. Now you're supposed to use straw to keep soils from washing out. In the video, the pallet slats were much closer together than ours were so we did our best to keep straw in place. So hopefully once the plants fill out and everything settles in better it'll look nicer. We put 18 plants in each planter.
Note - this area you'll notice has been deer and bird proofed - a huge problem we have around here.
More progress will be posted as we go through the summer months with these basically freebie planters. Fingers crossed.