Sanjy, luv your containers u've made, your garden is full of character. What colour of paint have u painted your summerhouse in? Wud like my shed that colour, and what colour is your lettuce frame? I want to make a vertical strawberry planter when I find a heat treated pallet and a frame like yours for lettuce wud be useful, tho it wud damage our fences if I fastened it to them. I've only a small garden so need to try sum vertical planting as running out of space. I've got electric saws etc, I just need sum pallets!
the lettuce frame is on a north facing fence and i planted the seeds in there and they are getting really big now, when i was deciding how to fix them to the fence (as the horizontal braces are triangle shaped ) i came up with cutting inverted triangles in the uprights of the wood frames to match the triangle shape of the braces and then screwed them upwards and downwards through the uprights of the lettuce frame into the horizontal fence braces. I don't think it will cause damage, if your fence isn't braced you could fix two wood battons horizontally from your fenc posts and then you can add your lettuce frame and strawberry planter onto that. for some vertical gardening. If you look on the last photo to the right you can see i've fixed an old gate to the wall and attached 6 x 12inch terracotta pots to it using wire and i have all my herbs in them.My garden isn't very big so i'm having to use the vertical space too.
i drilled holes in the bottom of the lettuce frames and put some small stones in then the compost. The colour was garden shades 'beaumont blue' i think. I don't actually like it very much but it's what i had in the shed at the time
The summer house which is an office isn't painted but is weatherboarded and green was the colour we had, at a guess it would be like a pale sage green, i'm sure you can get very similar in the garden shades range of colours
Loving this thread! So resourceful! Very inspiring! the radiator bricks in the cold frame is genius Hollie! I used mine as paving as they are so heavy they sit without budging perfectly! Great salad planters Sanjy! Excellent space saving idea and no bending to weed!
I know all to well how heavy those bricks are! I'm laying them later today to park my wheelbarrow on!
I used a similar extreme method of weighing down my plastic half green house yesterday, I dug a hole six inches and burried the base! the pegs provided would have been sturdy enough to thread a kebab but not hold down a greenhouse against high wind!
yes be careful with your cold frame, i had a similar take off with my plastic greenhouse where it filled with wind and tipped over and every single plant came our of its pot i must have had 75 pots in it grrrr..... it is now secured to the wall with two bungy cord straps after i found out one wouldn't hold it......see above for results of one strap
i'm itching to make more pallet things but OH is building a garage near his workshop and i cant get to all his tools at the mo
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Sanjy, luv your containers u've made, your garden is full of character. What colour of paint have u painted your summerhouse in? Wud like my shed that colour, and what colour is your lettuce frame? I want to make a vertical strawberry planter when I find a heat treated pallet and a frame like yours for lettuce wud be useful, tho it wud damage our fences if I fastened it to them. I've only a small garden so need to try sum vertical planting as running out of space. I've got electric saws etc, I just need sum pallets!
thank you garden girl & crazyflower
the lettuce frame is on a north facing fence and i planted the seeds in there and they are getting really big now, when i was deciding how to fix them to the fence (as the horizontal braces are triangle shaped
) i came up with cutting inverted triangles in the uprights of the wood frames to match the triangle shape of the braces and then screwed them upwards and downwards through the uprights of the lettuce frame into the horizontal fence braces. I don't think it will cause damage, if your fence isn't braced you could fix two wood battons horizontally from your fenc posts and then you can add your lettuce frame and strawberry planter onto that. for some vertical gardening. If you look on the last photo to the right you can see i've fixed an old gate to the wall and attached 6 x 12inch terracotta pots to it using wire and i have all my herbs in them.My garden isn't very big so i'm having to use the vertical space too.
i drilled holes in the bottom of the lettuce frames and put some small stones in then the compost. The colour was garden shades 'beaumont blue' i think. I don't actually like it very much but it's what i had in the shed at the time
The summer house which is an office isn't painted but is weatherboarded and green was the colour we had, at a guess it would be like a pale sage green, i'm sure you can get very similar in the garden shades range of colours
Loving this thread! So resourceful! Very inspiring!
the radiator bricks in the cold frame is genius Hollie! I used mine as paving as they are so heavy they sit without budging perfectly! Great salad planters Sanjy! Excellent space saving idea and no bending to weed! 
Excellent side effect! Heating cold frame!
I know all to well how heavy those bricks are! I'm laying them later today to park my wheelbarrow on!
I used a similar extreme method of weighing down my plastic half green house yesterday, I dug a hole six inches and burried the base!
the pegs provided would have been sturdy enough to thread a kebab but not hold down a greenhouse against high wind! 
thanks everyone
yes be careful with your cold frame, i had a similar take off with my plastic greenhouse where it filled with wind and tipped over and every single plant came our of its pot i must have had 75 pots in it grrrr..... it is now secured to the wall with two bungy cord straps after i found out one wouldn't hold it......see above for results of one strap
i'm itching to make more pallet things but OH is building a garage near his workshop and i cant get to all his tools at the mo
Well today I managed to source a half pallet (the front bit only) to start of a pallet fence for the allotment just need to find more
I like that Edd!
think the colour makes a nice backdrop for even more plants! 
garden centre visit! 