As I am sure many of you have discovered, DIY doesn’t always go as planned. Today is an example of what I will be calling {real-life DIY}; things that didn’t go to well, but taught me some lessons.
My experimentation with pallet gardens is continuing. The first attempt is still growing well, but in a quest to find the easiest and best way I made a second attempt. This time the plan was to spray paint some tins and then hang them onto a pallet with S-hooks. Some of my inspiration came from this lovely blog.
It originally came out looking something like this:
However, about 2 weeks after planting it I came home to this:
Lesson number 1: Tins filled with soil are heavy and a stormy day can topple a pallet, even if it is resting at an angle. Fasten your pallet down.
This is the remains of one of the squashed tins, which also brings us to
Lesson number 2: Tins can go rusty VERY quickly when being watered. This varied from tin to tin, but the small tins seem to do much better (see below – taken on the same day). The area where the tin is spray painted hasn’t rusted. Next I’ll try spraying the whole tin or first using a sealer/primer and then spray sections with colour.
I managed to rescue all the little plants, but have left them standing on the ground for now. The experimentation continues… 🙂
[…] In my experimentation for a good way to do a pallet garden I decided to try some tins. Spray painting them worked really well and the colour added a great effect. Recycling is great, but if it can be pretty it’s even better! Make sure to do 2 good coats of paint, as I still managed to let it be a bit thin in some places. To see how the pallet turned out, and the lesson that I learnt from it, click here. […]