Pallet Garden!

Oh, how lovely and creative. My brain is percolating with ideas!!

I absolutely love it! I've got a new apartment that has a 40 x 4 terrace, so big round pots would be in the way. Do you think that any of this patio furniture would blend with the pallet gardens?

Gardener, if your terrace has building on one side and is open to your yard on the other side, I'd be inclined to put Earthboxes just off the terrace on the edge of the yard rather than use pallets. You would have very high productivity.
http://www.earthbox.com

If your building is brick and the terrace is on the west or south side, you could pull the boxes up against the building in winter and probably get several extra monts of production.

I would be wary about putting pallets against a house in areas that are prone to termites.
Even heat treated ones, which will be constantly damp from watering, are an invitation to an unwanted infestation and damage over time.

On the way to coffee with my friends this morning, the public radio station was playing a repeat of a gardening show. It was about container gardening. One thing that the guest mentioned was that where there are extreme cold temperatures, perennial plants like herbs, flowers and strawberries, that they will not make it through the winter in containers and that they should be treated at annuals and newly replanted each year. This was not about pallet plantings, but things like those strawberry jar (with the holes up the sides) and containers that are above ground and have smaller soil areas than would be in a regular garden.

WPR
Larry Meiller
Garden Talk
Friday, 05-20-11
http://wpr.org/gardentalk/

So, no pallet gardening for me. Alas.