A garden box filled with cascading petunias is a good idea that will make your yard look spectacular. Have you tried to get hanging baskets of flowers to look lush but failed?
Trouble With Hanging Baskets
The challenge with growing lush flower baskets is that the best spots in your lawn won’t sustain them. In other words, the section in your garden that gets the ideal amount of sun doesn’t have a place for you to hang a basket. Or maybe the area with the tree or overhang gets too much wind.
Garden Box Can Be Your Answer
As most gardeners know, many things have to come together to achieve a showy landscape. Creating a planter box may be a solution. You can put the box in a strategic spot that will be the perfect environment for growing splashy and vibrant flowers.
The “How To”
Amy at HerToolKit.com in “Planter Box For Cascading Flowers” demonstrates how to create a flower box out of pallets. You can, of course, use other wood. Don’t forget to read the comments section. Many of Amy’s readers posted advice about growing healthy and showy petunias.
Pallet Planter Box For Cascading Flowers
My home town has been hanging those baskets for the last 5-10 years or so, and they make main street look amazing. I bought some of the large Bloom Master pots years ago thinking the cascading flowers would look awesome hanging off the back deck. So this year, I’m trying it again but in the front yard where the flowers will be more protected. Pallet Planter Box For Cascading Flowers – Her Tool Belt
Final Words
The box is not too complicated to make. And it can be recycled each year with different flowers. You’ll remove half of the dirt and add a product to refresh the potting soil.
Another advantage of the garden container is that you can move to another part of your yard next year. Or you can build a companion box and plant complementary colors of flowers.
Images via HerToolBelt.com
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