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A great way to make a plant box and grow sweet peas


Material

  • 1 pack of sweet peas
  • 1 bag of soil
  • 1 old wooden box
  • 1 drill
  • 1 bag of rocks
  • 1 pot varnish
  • 1 skewer

Method

  1. drill holes in the bottom of your box for drainage
  2. paint the box with varnish to seal it from water and rain
  3. fill with rocks for drainage
  4. add soil
  5. skewer holes for your seeds
  6. drop in the seeds and recover with soil
  7. water
  8. watch grow



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    • 13 Feb 2014
      6:45 pm

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  • Thanks for your great post 🙂

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  • i love growing herbs .

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  • will have to make this with my granddaughter

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  • this looks so cute, would perhaps be perfect for herbs

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  • Thank you for sharing this

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  • this is a great idea

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  • Thanks for sharing this, never thought of just using an already made/old wooden box, definitely want to give this a go

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  • thanks i love making things for my garden

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  • I would love to make a planter box also. If it was successful I might be game enough to try a raised veggie patch

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  • I would really love to make a plant box

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  • This is great my ,DD is at me all the time to make one of these never know it was so easy.

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  • Lovely idea to get the kids to help aswell

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  • Thanks for sharing this great idea

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  • yum sweet peas too awesome

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  • Love anything recycled. Our world is too much locked into consuming for consummings sake.

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  • Have been meaning to make one of these

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  • perfect little planter pot for toddler planters

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  • Such a great idea. im looking forward to doing this with my toddler. 🙂

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  • Recycling centres would have different boxes & I can’t wait to start a little garden with my boys!

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  • where would you get an old wooden box from though? I have searched

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