In times of upcycling it has almost become a cult: the Euro pallet. And it can also offer amazing design diversity for herb gardeners. Here we will show you how you can create innovative herb beds in a Euro pallet using instructions.
How to build a herb bed from a Euro pallet?
To build a herb bed from a Euro pallet, you can design the pallet either vertically as a herb pallet rack or horizontally as a mobile herb pallet bed. Attach boards to create planter boxes and plant them with various herbs.
Why the Europallet is suitable as a herb plant
The Euro pallet is currently enjoying great popularity among upcycling enthusiasts - alternative cafés entertain their guests on pallet furniture they built entirely themselves, and living pioneers live in original pallet buildings they constructed themselves. Why the Euro pallet is so popular may be due to its robust, stable slatted construction, the block supports that raise or create depressions and its practical format. With its large but still manageable dimensions and its straight edges, it can be used in new ways in virtually all directions.
These properties
- stable and durable
- Recesses through block supports
- large but handy format
- straight edges for positioning in all directions
are literally ideal “framework conditions” for a herb bed. Why?
The first point goes without saying. A herb bed system, especially if it is to be mobile, must be stable. In addition, the herb bed should bring you joy and a certain kick in the soup for longer than one season.
On the second point: The depressions created by the block supports on the underside of the Euro pallet are ideal for the small space requirements of kitchen refiners growing as perennials or dwarf shrubs.
The format of 1.20 m long, 80 cm wide and 14.4 cm high is also ideal for a small herb plant culture.
The diverse set-up options offer a lot of creativity when creating your pallet herb bed.
In the following we present two ideas with construction instructions on how you can fill the Euro pallet with aromatic green. We will look at the variability in setting up the Euro pallet and suggest a vertical and a horizontal variant.
Instructions
Vertical – The herb pallet rack
In this variant, the Euro pallet comes to rest on one long edge and the plant containers for the herbs are created between the block supports on the underside.
To do this, nail a pallet-length board parallel to the top battens on the outside and in the middle of each of the three pairs of blocks. To get floors in, close the six gaps created on the undersides according to the installation page with another, suitably long board.
So you have created two elongated plant boxes at the top, middle and bottom, for a total of six. You should line these with mulch film (€13.00 on Amazon) so that the wood does not rot. You can then fill them with soil that matches the types of herbs and plant them.
You should fix the entire herb pallet rack to a wall.
Horizontal – the mobile herb pallet bed
You can actually do the same thing, only in a horizontal orientation, for a portable herb pallet bed. Here you close the upper side of the slats completely and the outer sides also with boards. Inside, connect the block supports with upright boards, creating a cross with 4 rectangular plant boxes.
These each form a mini bed for two or three types of herbs with similar soil preferences.
