The unassuming wood pallet is one of the garden’s most underutilized sources of recycled materials. Still, it’s also one of the best that’s why we discuss Uses for Wooden Pallets in detail. The retail business uses millions of wooden pallets to convey items and discard them, which often causes landfills to become overcrowded. Making items for the landscape out of recycled pallets allows you to reuse free raw materials and provides a method for recycling in the garden. It also provides you with a product that no one else has.
You can put your own stamp on each one of these creative wood pallet garden ideas by repurposing the pallets with a few simple tools and some sweat labour. A pallet garden is an excellent growing environment for a wide variety of herbs, greens, and flowers, such as microgreens, parsley, thyme, basil, rosemary, pansies, and petunias.
Uses for Wooden Pallets
Garden Walkway
What happens when a garden path isn’t merely a route to walk across the environment but becomes the focus of attention in and of itself? The website Funky Junk Interiors demonstrates that a wood pallet, even after it has been demolished, may still be used as a beautiful design feature in the yard. Even though a wood pallet pathway will benefit your garden by preventing you from compacting damp soil, it is best used in a low-traffic garden region. This means that heavy wheelbarrows or garden carts should not be used in this area.
Because pallet boards are already worn and thin, a little preparation might help your walkway last for more than just a few seasons. Instead of placing the pallet wood straight on the soil, dig the area a few inches beneath the walkway and backfill it with gravel. This will prevent the wood from rotting. This will assist water draining away from your route, avoiding rot. Additionally, it could prevent the development of weeds in and around your pathway.
Garden Bench
The reward of taking a seat on a garden bench at the end of a long, hot day spent weeding the garden and warding off bug invaders is well merited. At first glance, a wood pallet might not appear to have the potential to transform into an attractive piece of garden furniture. However, as the blog Our House Now a Home demonstrates, with some inexpensive paint and a few throw pillows, scrap wood can be transformed into a seat in your landscape worthy of being featured on Instagram.
Building furniture from wood pallets needs a certain amount of flying by the seat of your pants. Still, the end outcomes are only limited by your ability as a carpenter. Look for free woodworking designs or instructions on YouTube to remove some mystery elements from the process. After you have become proficient in the fundamentals of bench construction, you can even opt to construct a garden rocker or recliner for your yard.
Garden Swing
The garden swing is nothing new, but a garden swing bed is the best way to relax since spiked lemonade. A ready-made garden swing bed can cost at least a few hundred dollars, which is a real bummer for a lazy gardener. The Merrythought used 2×4 lumber to strengthen two wood pallets, and a mattress with vinyl zippered covers went on top. If you know how to use a sewing machine, you could make your cushion from outdoor patio fabric. Make sure you use a rope with a high working load limit and a solid branch to hang this beast, as it will weigh several hundred pounds when it’s complete.
Raised Garden bed
The raised garden bed is still a great way to grow many flowers or vegetables in a small area. The soil in raised beds warms up quickly, and the height keeps vulnerable plants away from plants that grow in the ground. The loose, crumbly soil you add to raised beds helps all edible and ornamental plants have the healthiest root systems.
If you put landscape fabric on the bottom of your raised bed, the soil won’t move out when you water your plants. The best height for a raised bed is between 6 and 12 inches, but you can make it taller if you stake the walls to keep them from bowing outward.
