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These recycled pop/soda bottles make very efficient sub-irrigation planters for starting vegetable plants. These are pepper plants. See how to make them here.
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Friendly chickens w/ new garden. Coop/shed made from recycled materials w/ antique stained glass window & French doors for the shed.
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These are heirloom tomato seedlings ready for potting up into sub-irrigated pop bottle planters. Here are some of them.
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Large, aviary style coop w/ a green roof. Seattle Tilth 3-bin composter to compost the chicken manure & bedding.
Surrounded by a well kept lawn and garden beds of roses, this sprawling Reformist (Arts and Crafts) style bungalow may be found in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat.
Built in the years just before or after the Great War (1914 - 1918), the transition from Edwardian villa to the popular low slung Californian Bungalow of the early 1920s is more obvious than some of its neighbours. The large leadlight glass windows are very in keeping with the Arts and Crafts Movement, as is the band of red bricks along the foundation of the property. However, the Art Deco era is starting to make its presence known by way of the rounded porch canopy, the geometric patterns on the flower boxes below the windows and the stuccoed wall treatment. The lack of decoration is a definate move away from the stylised and highly decorative Queen Anne style that preceded it.
Arts and Crafts houses challenged the formality of the mid and high Victorian styles that preceded it, and were often designed with uniquely angular floor plans. However, this house's floor plan appears to be more traditional than others, with a central hallway off which the principal rooms were located.
This cottage style villa with its decorative gabling, leadlight windows, white stucco work and picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns may be found in the Melbourne suburb of Coonans Hill.
Houses like this were popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-class who could finally afford to buy their own homes. Comfortable and cottage like in the Metroland style of interwar Art Deco architecture so popular in Australia during the late 1920s, this house and many others like it represented stability and respectability, without being showy.
This villa still features its original rounded planter box beneath the front room's bay window. The current owners have added an extra splash of colour to their neat cottage garden by filling the planter box with pretty primulas and petunias in candy box shades. The pomegranite tree in the front garden, judging by its size, was probably planted when the house was first built back in the 1920s.
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This is a test. I'll report on the progress of the pepper plants in this planter.
It is a recycled milk box made into a sub-irrigated grow box. The box is lined with a plastic trash bag to retain the soil moisture. Water is supplied by capillary action from a recycled plastic cookie container buried at the bottom. You can see the fill tube in the front center. The cookie container is at the left rear in the photo.
Sunset Magazine: 5 planter boxes, , small crops such as lettuce, basil, & sage grow in the centers of ea. bed, while covered storage space at the ends doubles as seating. (compost bin)
These stylish Metroland maisonettes, (two houses joined by a shared central wall), can be found in a quite street in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore.
These cottage style maisonettes with their low slung tile roof, white coloured stucco work with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns and an arch of feature bricks dividing the facade in two follow the less cluttered lines of Metroland Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war. To give them their own individual style, one has a bay window, whilst the other features a planter box beneath its drawing room window.
Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens. These two small, co-joined residences were built near the lowest section of Travancore, which was the last portion of the suburb to be subdivided on what was formerly the mansion's old dairy. Their position and size would suggest they would have been acquired by an aspiring middle-class families or young newlywed couples who wanted modernity to ease their lives, as they would not have been in the position to acquire the assistance of outside help like some of their neighbours could.
These are inexpensive 3-gallon pails from a .99 cents store. They cost $2. I converted them to sub-irrigation planters by inserting an EPS (expanded polystyrene) disk resting on top of a recycled 16 oz plastic deli container.
The EPS platform (disk) creates a water reservoir and the deli container creates a soil wick. Note the black plastic filll tube at center left.
You can use this very simple method to convert just about any planter to sub-irrigation. Plug the drain hole in terracotta pots, coat the inside with tree wound spray and no one will know what you've done. They'll still look like Martha pots.
Vilnius, Lithuania.
This church has been recently renovated and made to look all fake and horrible. This is, possibly, the only good view of it. From most other angles, it looks like something from Disneyland. Awful.
This is the version of the sub-irrigated (aka self-watering) 5 gallon bucket planter that I'm going to use this season. Note that it is made from just one bucket. The two (sleeved) bucket version is in more widespread use on the web but I don't agree that it is necessary. Even if you can find them for free, why waste a valuable bucket if you don't have to.
A little time and less than $20 made this cool window box planter
(TL/DR: Click here to skip straight to the instructions)
Our house is a 1950’s single story California ranch. Long and low, it has lots of big windows that bring in fresh air and light keeping the house cool in the summer and naturally lit in the winter. The guest bathroom has a large window with a view out across the deck down to the orange grove. The glass is frosted to provide privacy, but most of the time it’s wide open and people don’t realize that anyone on the deck has a clear view into the bathroom.
To limit the awkward accidental eye contact, I had a big ficus in a 35 gallon pot on the deck in front of the window as a screen, but several nights of hard freeze killed it this last winter so the window was once again bare.
I didn’t have another big tree to put in place (plus they’re too heavy), so I dorked around with a few ideas until my wife finally said “why don’t you build a window box planter?”
Not a bad idea, I thought. I dug through my surplus building stuff and came up with a couple dog-eared cedar fence boards for the box itself and a piece of corrugated steel sheet I could wrap the box in to give it a sort of rustic livestock “water trough” look.
A couple of dog-eared cedar fence boards A sheet of corrugated steel leftover from my greenhouse build
Raw materials among the surplus building stuff
The whole thing — materials and plants — cost less than $20 and took only a weekend to put together. Not only does it look great and screen the window really well, but it also frees up a bunch of room on the deck for the lounge chairs and side table. Win-win-win.
Here’s how I built the window box. Feel free to copy, modify or improve on it any way you like.
Corrugated Steel & Cedar Window Box Planter
Materials
2 Cedar Fence Pickets 1-in x 8-in x 6-ft
1-in x 2-in x 20-in piece of wood (can be pine, redwood, etc. Any old scrap will do)
1 sheet corrugated steel at least 48-in long
Waterproof Wood Glue
1½-in finish nails
5/8-in wood screws
2 galvanized steel corner brackets rated for 30 lbs or more (Mine were 2-in.)
Instructions
The finished size of the window box is 30-in x 9½-in x 9½-in.
Planter box diagram view from the front
The wood planter itself is two inches smaller in all dimensions which lets it hide inside of the steel so the planter looks like it’s a real corrugated steel trough.
Diagram of planter box assembly from the top
Step 1 – Cut the Wood
The cut boards ready for assembly
The wood box is 7½-in tall and wide because the cedar fence pickets are already 7½-in wide, which means you only have to cut them to length as follows:
2 x 28-in (front and back)
1 x 27-in (bottom)
2 x 7½-in (ends)
(Cedar pickets are prone to splitting so make sure to check the boards and cut off any ends with cracks or splits before you cut your longer boards.)
Once the cedar is cut, get your 1×2 and cut two pieces:
2 x 8½-in
These will be the supports that will prevent the cedar bottom from warping or splitting once it’s mounted and has plants in it.
Step 2 – Assemble the Cedar Box
Starting with the box bottom glue and nail the end pieces to the bottom. The end pieces should be mounted to the outside of the bottom, not on top of it. Once again, because cedar can split, be careful when securing the piece with the finish nails.
Beginning with the ends, use waterproof wood glue and finish nails to assemble the box.
Once the ends are on, glue and nail the box sides to finish the box.
Attaching the front, back and bottom of the box The cedar planter box all assembled
Gluing and nailing the cedar box
Flip the box over and attach the supports to the bottom of the box with glue and nails. The supports should be mounted on each side of the bottom halfway between the outer edge and the center of the box.
Mounting bottom supports and drilling drain holes in the box
Finally, using a 3/8-in wood bit, drill a set of six drainage holes in the bottom.
Set the box aside and let the glue dry (about 2 hours should do it).
Step 3 – Cut Corrugated Steel Pieces
A standard sheet of corrugated steel is 26 inches wide, which is too short for the box, so rather than running the corrugation vertically as I had planned, I ran it horizontally. Turns out it worked better because it’s a lot easier to cut the panel with tin snips when you’re cutting along the bottom of the corrugated curve rather than across it. Pieces cut:
2 – 9½-in x 30-in (front & back)
2 – 9½-in x 8½-in (end pieces)
Once they’re cut, use a file to remove sharp pieces and metal burrs from the edges.
Step 4 – Attach Steel Sheets
Once the glue on the box is dry, it’s time to attach the steel panels to the wood.
Use a pencil and straight rule to make a line 1 inch from the long edge of both pieces of steel you cut for the front and back. Align it with the top of your wood box and make sure that the bottom completely hides the support bars on the bottom of the box (a pair of spring clamps makes this a lot easier).
Using clamps and 5/8-inch screws to attach the corrugated panels to the box
Screw the panel to the box with the 5/8-in wood screws. Screw through the panel at the bottom of the corrugated curve to ensure good contact with the wood under it. Mount the other panel to the other side of the box the same way.
Once the front and back panels are attached, put the end panels and put it in place, align them so they’re even with the front and back, and screw them to the box as well.
Corrugated panels mounted on the cedar planter box
Step 5 – Attach Mounting Brackets
Mark where the mounting brackets will go on the back of the window box and use tin snips to clip out a slot wide enough to allow the bracket to slide down between the steel panel and the wood so the mounting holes are level with the top of the wood box (not the steel panel). Attach the brackets to the wood with screws.
Step 6 – Paint
You don’t actually have to paint this window box, because the steel will build up a nice patina over time. However, scratches and cuts to the metal will allow rust, which will ultimately drip and stain whatever is under the window box. In my case, that’s a redwood deck, so I painted.
Painting all the exposed edges of the box with a rust-colored primer
I’m in this brick red phase, so I decided to paint the box with brick red primer. I painted the outside and top (but not the inside or bottom) with a couple of coats of primer, and then added a third coat just because I felt like it.
Step 7 – Mount
Mounting is pretty straightforward. Center the empty window box on the sill where you plan to mount it, and mark the locations of the angle bracket’s screw holes. Drill pilot holes in the sill, set the box and brackets back in place and attach to the window sill with screws (I used 1-⅜-in exterior wood screws).
Step 8 – Fill and Enjoy
The space where the window box hangs doesn’t get much sun and I’m not very good with shade plants, so I left the plant selection to the Mrs. who chose a couple of fuschias, a tall burgundy coleus, and a few little pink and green coleuses to soften the edges.
Planter box filled and mounted in the window
As you can see from this photo one month later, all the plants seem to be doing quite well. Best of all, the risk of awkward accidental eye contact is practically nil.
Planter box at night looks cool even if you can’t see the plants
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Custom built planter boxes by Accurate Construction using Trex brasilia. This is above a garage on a roof top deck.
This is a 14 gallon Rubbermaid tote box planter (sub-irrigated) made without power tools. All you need is a box cutter or sharp paring knife.
It's based on a creative and simple design from the Rooftop Gardens Project. This is how it's made.
The water in the reservoir at the bottom feeds up through the neck of the bottle by capillary action. Read more. Watch a slideshow.
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We had another windstorm ... cleaning up the yard turned into a fun decorating spree ... how to turn a negative into a positive.
This planter box blends into the stone retaining wall. Meanwhile the plants in it have blended into the soil.
Planter box designed and built by Anthony DeMarco // Untreated 1/2" plywood and
2x4's. // 8' long x 33" tall x 23" deep.
"Endsleigh" is a smart villa which may be found in a quiet, tree lined street of Ballarat.
Originally an Edwardian villa, "Endsleigh" has gone through some dramatic architectural changes since it was built in the early Twentieth Century. Details of the original villa may be seen by the traditional roofline with the pointed eave and the Art Nouveau stained glass bay window. Yet in the 1930s, the owners decided to change the look of "Endsleigh" by adding a flat roofed, Streamline Moderne extension to the front of the villa. The facade was given a red and brown clinker brick makeover and a rounded porch was added. The flat roofed extension also has sash windows, a built in planter box that is built to the same rounded shape as the porch canopy, and the house name in stylised cast iron lettering that was popular during the 1930s.
This reservoir for converting any water tight container to sub-irrigation (aka self-watering) is made from a cookie container. If the availability of these food containers was more widespread, it would be my first choice for making utility bucket planters. It looks a bit grungy in the photo because it was buried in a sub-irrigated milk crate planter last summer.
The reservoir will hold about one U.S. gallon and is easy to make. The soil wick in the center is a deli container with holes poked all around the bottom edge to allow the water to rise up by capillary action. It just happens to be the right height to fit under the cover (soil platform). The fill pipe is flexible plastic tubing.
These stylish Metroland maisonettes, (two houses joined by a shared central wall), can be found in a quite street in the Melbourne suburb of Travancore.
These cottage style maisonettes with their low slung tile roof, white coloured stucco work with picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns and an arch of feature bricks dividing the facade follow the less cluttered lines of Metroland Art Deco architecture that came out of England after the war. To give them their own individual style, one has a bay window, whilst the other features a planter box beneath its drawing room window.
Travancore is a bijou suburb named after a beautiful Victorian mansion erected in 1863. The mansion's grounds were subdivided in the late 1890s to form the new suburb, which consists only of only about five streets. With commanding views of Royal Park, the area was much sought after by aspiring middle and upper middle-class citizens. These two small, co-joined residences were built near the lowest section of Travancore, which was the last portion of the suburb to be subdivided on what was formerly the mansion's old dairy. Their position and size would suggest they would have been acquired by an aspiring middle-class families or young newlywed couples who wanted modernity to ease their lives, as they would not have been in the position to acquire the assistance of outside help like some of their neighbours could.
A planting mini-parade through the streets of Fawkner to utilise new planter boxes built in conjunction with Urban Bush Carpenters. We were joined by Meghan Hopper, the Mayor of the City of Moreland, and our Federal MP Kelvin Thomson. Two beautiful songs performed by Fawkner women's choir at the Fawkner Community House.