A DIY vertical garden can be the perfect addition to your porch this spring and summer. Grow vegetables, herbs, or whatever your heart desires. This one is also super easy to make and will fit beautifully in areas of all sizes.
I have so many great gardening ideas and crafts. It’s always fun to spruce up the outside of your home, especially when you can get outside and enjoy it!
This DIY is a great way to keep any herbs and small fruits or vegetables off of the ground and (possibly) out of reach of the squirrels and rabbits. I’m not making any promises, but one can hope.
How to Make a DIY Vertical Garden
Supplies needed to make your own DIY vertical garden:
- Metal containers
- Drill and drill bit
- Ladder or material to build a ladder
- Potting soil
- Plants or seeds
- S-hooks
Start by buying or building a rustic ladder for your DIY vertical garden. I found this gem at my local store but you can easily build one of these as well. You just want one with round rungs or rungs that are not very wide to accommodate your S-hooks. Otherwise, the size and height are up to you.
If you want to build your own ladder like the one shown, cut two 2×2 boards to the length desired. In my case, that was 64 inches. Then rip 1×4 boards in half and cut those to any length you wish. Mine are 17 inches long. Use nails to secure everything into place and add a rustic paint treatment if desired.
Now for your planters. You want to choose metal containers that will fit your ladder. Drill holes in the bottom of each one with the drill and drill bit for drainage.
Use S-hooks to hang each on the rungs of your ladder.
For the longer containers, I used two S-hooks on the rung to secure in place.
Once all of your containers are in place, you are ready for planting.
Add rocks to the bottom of each container to aid with drainage then fill with potting soil. Add in plants or even start them from seeds.
I added lettuce and my favorite herbs but you can mix it up and create the DIY vertical garden that you have been dreaming of.
What will you grow this summer? Add this rustic project to your back porch and you will be just steps away from fresh vegetables and herbs.
Just lean the ladder up against your wall and your DIY vertical garden is ready to grow!
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Supplies
- Metal containers
- Drill and drill bit
- Ladder or material to build a ladder
- Potting soil
- Plants or seeds
- S-hooks
Instructions
- To build your own ladder like the one shown, cut two 2×2 boards to the length desired. In my case, that was 64 inches. Then rip 1×4 boards in half and cut those to any length you wish. Mine are 17 inches long. Use nails to secure everything into place and add a rustic paint treatment if desired.
- Drill holes in the bottom of each metal container with the drill and drill bit for drainage.
- Use S-hooks to hang each on the rungs of your ladder. For the longer containers, I used two S-hooks on the rung to secure in place.
- Add rocks to the bottom of each container to aid with drainage then fill with potting soil. Add in plants or even start them from seeds.
- Lean the ladder up against your wall and your DIY vertical garden is ready to grow!
So pretty! The yellow contrasts nicely with the blues.
This is super cute, and makes me wish we didn’t live where it gets so hot in the summer. We have days 115+ much like Arizona. I’d make one in a heartbeat. Pinned & sharing Thanks for joining me at the Inspiration Spotlight party @DearCreatives
That is so fun and creative! I have a spot on my deck that could really use something vertical like this and it actually looks really easy, so I love that. I think my mom might really like this too. She’s what I like to call a plant-aholic, so anything to display all her flowers and get them up would be great. I’m definitely going to share the idea with her at least. Thanks for the great inspirational post just in time for the good weather here.
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Angie, this is the cutest garden project and is a great idea for maximizing outdoor space. Thanks so much for sharing at Happiness is Homemade.
My brain was on the same thought this week ! I made mine horizontal with lights….but I love your idea even more!!! The yellow is beautiful, what a great idea. Thanks for sharing ! I found you at snickerdoodle and wanted to say hello.
I love a fun vertical garden! This is really cute, and of course a perfect spot for growing herbs or flowers! Thanks for linking up with Merry Monday. I’ll be featuring your DIY vertical garden at our upcoming party. Hope to see you again next week!
It looks so beautiful plus space saving too! 🙂 Will definitely add this to my to-do list. Thanks for sharing!
This is genius, sometimes simple ideas like this really bring a garden to life.
So happy I stumbled across this and it was really easy to do, the wife thinks it looks great and wants me to start trying other stuff out, oh the joy lol.
Thanks for giving me my next project 🙂