No matter your personal tastes and lifestyle, there is usually a way to enjoy gardening at home. Whether you and your family have a house in the suburbs or you’re living alone in an apartment, everyone can make it work.
So to give you some inspiration, we at Bored Panda put together a list of creative gardening ideas for Spring. We included building a pallet planter box for cascading flowers. Setting up a bucket for growing tomatoes indoors. You name it! Just continue scrolling and check them out.
#1 Our Local Farmers Have Established So-Called “Flora Belts” For The Bees In Their Fields (Funen, Denmark)
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#2 My Dad’s Japanese Garden On The First Sunny Day Of 2019
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#3 My Dad’s Creation To Support The Single Orange I Managed To Grow
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#4 After Clearing Out A Wheelchair, Three Mismatched Shoes, A Deflated Ball And A Buried Chunk Of Brick Wall, I Finally Have My Very First Garden
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#5 My Melons Needed Some Support
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#6 This Was Just A Pile Of Dirt When We Moved Here 2 Years Ago
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#7 Hubs Deployed And Said I Could Build A Garden To Keep Me Busy. Never Built Anything Before, Did My Best And Can’t Wait To Show Him
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#8 Pallet Planter Box For Cascading Flowers
Cut pieces of pallet slat to 40″ and attach to the legs for the front and 16″ for the sides. I originally used a brad nailer, but some of the wood started to warp when wet and I went back and used 1 1/4″ screws. Spacing the holes about every 6″ or so. Now the fun part, planting the flowers. These flowers are Wave petunias that I got at Costco, you can also rotate the flowers between regular, cascade and wave petunias. You need good potting mix and you need to add Soil Moist to help retain water. I put a layer of weed guard down on the bottom, because I had a few holes. You may have a little dirt wash out for the first little while, but once the plants start growing this will stop. Add the first row of flowers, then cover with soil. I realized that the box is kind of large and is going to use a lot of dirt (2 bags). I remember reading somewhere that you can use packing peanuts as filler, hope I remember that right. I put them in the far back where the flowers wouldn’t be planted. Then cover with more dirt. Add the third row of flowers, fill with dirt and plant flowers on top. You need to water the flowers everyday, the holes let the dirt get dry. I usually water until the water leaks from the lower holes. I also fertilize 1/week.
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#9 Everyone Said I Was Out Of My Mind 3 Years Ago When I Started Growing A Pineapple From One I Bought At The Grocery Store. Well Who’s Laughing Now
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#10 Dragon Fruits On My Rooftop Garden
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#11 Incorporating Rain Into Your Garden
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#12 My Grandma Is Very Proud To Show You Her Garden
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#13 The Poison Garden Established In 2005 By The Duchess Of Northumberland. The Garden Contains Over 100 Deadly And Hallucinogenic Plants
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#14 Grow A Sunflower House For The Kids To Play In
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#15 Feed Them
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#16 A Year After We Got Rid Of The Drought Tolerant Weeds And Planted Drought Tolerant Flowers, Yard Is In Full Effect
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#17 Built A Planter Box Bench This Past Weekend. What Do You Think?
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#18 A Beautifully Coloured Glass Greenhouse At The North Brooklyn Farm’s Community Garden
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#19 Just Made A Garden With My Mom, She Think It Looks Terrible But I Like It
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#20 I Want My Lawn To Feed Me Not Vice Versa
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#21 The Easiest Way To Water Your Garden
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#22 A Bit Late To The Party, But Here’s My Lockdown Garden Transformation
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#23 Hello, I’m Alessandro And This Is My Urban Garden In London, UK. I’m Also Passionate About Beekeeping And I Do Everything 100% Organic
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#24 Last Spring I Converted Our Front Lawn To A Vegetable Garden. Today We Opened A Little Community Seed Library To Encourage Neighbors To Get Growing Too
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#25 My Garage Wall When I Bought My House In 2016 To Now. Still A Work In Progress, But It’s Coming Together
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#26 Tried To Organize My Patio Cactus/Succulent Garden
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#27 A Little Garden Lighting Project
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#28 A Couple Of Years Ago I Threw A Pineapple Top In The Dirt To Compost. Today I’m Harvesting These Two Beauties
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#29 Outdoor Table With Integrated Herb Garden
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#30 We’ve Converted Our Pool Into An 80,000l Underground Rainwater Tank With Raised Vegetable Garden Beds On Top
The pool was in disrepair when we bought our property. It hadn’t been used for ~10 years, the fence wasn’t built to current standards, the tiles needed replacing, the pumps didn’t work etc etc. We don’t live in a great climate for a pool either – it’s too cool most of the year and the size made it impractical to heat with solar (the previous owner used solar + a gas heater). Rather than spend money repairing and maintaining a pool we’d rarely use we decided to explore other options. We’d always wanted a large veggie garden, and the pool area looked like the perfect sunny spot for one. We originally considered just filling it in, but there’s no access for machinery and doing it by hand would have been impractical.
We came up with the slightly crazy idea of putting a lid on it and using the space underneath as rainwater storage. I sketched up some ideas, we approached an engineer and before long we had a workable design.
Cleaning was lot of work. There was about a foot of accumulated sludge in the bottom.
After many hours of pressure cleaning it was starting to look better. It’s a huge pool, about 10m long and 2.2m at the deep end. We thought about sealing it with a paint on sealer at this point, but we can always do this later if leaks are a problem.
The solution we used for the lid is called “Speedfloor”. It uses steel joists spaced ~1m apart to suspend a concrete slab. It’s commonly used in multi-story carparks in Australia.
You can also see the submersible pump feeding into the pool from what was originally the overflow point. The pump provides mains pressure and is plumbed to the house (via 2 filters).
I have two of these 500L tanks catching water from both sides of the house. Both downpipes have first flush systems and the tanks act as settling tanks to improve the water quality in the main tank. They both gravity feed into the pool via underground pipes.
At this point we had 80,000L of clean water storage and were running the whole house from rainwater. It had taken ~1 year to get to this point – about 6 months of effort getting the plans approved by our local council and another 6 months of preparing the tank and organising builders for the slab (and changing builder part way through when the first went bust!). We had a slab party and a well deserved break.
Back to work assembling the raised garden beds. We fit 9 total, each about 2.2m long and 1.2m wide. They each have a liner to stop soil washing out and gravel base to aid drainage and keep water off the slab as best we can (even though it shouldn’t matter with the grade of concrete used).
We tried out wicking beds made from IBCs but were concerned about the extra weight the water reservoir would add.
We’ve grown almost everything you can think of – permanent beds grow raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, rhubarb and asparagus. Other things we’ve tried include tomatoes, pumpkins, zucchini, squash, turnips, beetroot, broad beans, string beans, snow peas, various chilies, artichokes, spring onions, garlic, capsicum, kale, lettuce, spinach, loads of herbs etc etc etc!
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#31 I Scarred A Pumpkin
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#32 What A Difference A Few Years Can Make. Idea 2017 vs. Established Garden 2020
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#33 First Vertical Garden. What Do You Think?
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#34 Planted These Tulips After A Bad Day (In The Cold) And I Told Myself As I Dug That Spring Would Come And They’d Bloom And Things Would Be Better. I Was Right! Thanks Former Self
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#35 The Grandparents Garden Is Looking Amazing
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#36 The Quarantine Garden I Built For My Wife
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#37 My Grandpa Built A Teepee For His Bean Plant And Planted Wildflowers On The Sides
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#38 I Hired 9 Goats To Eat Our English Ivy Covered Backyard, 10 Days Later, Couldn’t Be Happier
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#39 You Guys Like Driveways? This Was My DIY Covid-19 Project
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#40 I Convinced My Friend To Not Throw Away His Old Fencing And Let Me Build Him Garden Boxes
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#41 Gourd Tunnel Progress
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#42 Re-Purposed Bird Cages To Keep The Critters Out Of My Starts. Plus, I Can Cover Them At Night If It Gets Too Chilly
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#43 I Had A Window Garden Starving For Sun So I Hinged It And Backed It With A Mirror. Worked Like A Champ
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#44 I’m Growing My Cantaloupe Vertically And They Needed A Little Support So I Crocheted Some Tiny Little Hammocks
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#45 Vertical Strawberry Garden With Up-Cycled Milk Jugs
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#46 First Major Gardening Project – Hexagonal Garden Beds
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#47 Watering Your Plants While On Vacation
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#48 Downspout With A Vertical Garden In Seattle
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#49 How To Regrow Romaine Lettuce From The Stem
1. Eat your purchased lettuce, cutting the leaves at about 1 inch from the bottom.
2. Place remaining stem in a shallow dish of water (about 1/2 inch).
3. Place on a window sill or under grow lights.
4. Change water in bowl every 1 to 2 days.
5. Watch your lettuce grow. It is truly remarkable how quickly the new shoots start. You may also notice that roots will start to grow on the bottom.
5. After 10-12 days, your lettuce is going to be as big as it will likely ever get. It’s not going to be a full head of lettuce, it’ll just be enough to top a sandwich or make a small salad. But how cool is that!
6. If you leave your lettuce beyond this point, it will become spindly and bitter as it attempts to produce seed. It won’t be pleasant to eat at this point. You’ll know it has reached this point when the leaves start turning a blue green color and/or the main stalk shoots up and leaves become less dense. Trust me, eat it when it’s like the photo below.
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#50 We Made An Herb Ladder From Scratch
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