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3 projects for your vegie garden

Build a raised bed, screen the water tank and make a potting station. - by Better Homes and Gardens
  • 12 Nov 2020
3 projects for your vegie garden

Beat the budget blues with these clever, money-saving projects for your garden. Salvage and recycle scraps from your renovation or other DIY projects and turn them into a productive and attractive vegie patch. It’s creative, environmentally responsible and thrifty as well.

Get the project sheet here.

Project 1

Raise your vegie garden bed so you can weed, feed and reap without clambering all over the ground on your knees.

A wicking bed holds water at the  bottom of a waterproof container and water is drawnup into the soil by capillary action when the plants require it. This self-watering process can last up to three weeks. Perfect if you’re away on holidays!

Wicking bed

Raise your vegie garden bed.

Photography Brent Wilson

Project 2

Hook your potted herbs and ornamentals over reinforced mesh so they are easy for you to pick when needed.

A water tank is not just a utility. Use leftover reo mesh and decking planks to make a vertical garden and a place to safely store your garden tools. Easy!

Garden screen

Screen the water tank.

Photography Brent Wilson

Project 3

Make a potting station with an old metal table and leftover decking planks so you have a flat surface for preparing and potting up, and shelves to hold seedling trays, tags, pots, tools and bulky materials.

Potting station

Store your garden tools on a screen.

Photography Brent Wilson

Get the project sheet

Download the step-by-step instructions to make these vegie garden projects

For more DIY projects, pick up a copy of the latest issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine in selected newsagents and supermarkets or buy online today!

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