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How to Make an Herb Garden from a Pallet

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Published April 22, 2013 by Jennifer. 70 Comments.
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Working with The Home Depot on the outdoor and gardening campaign has been fun, and for my last post I am going to be using those wonderful herbs I purchased last week on my shopping spree.

I have always wanted to make an herb garden, but with a small yard, 4 children, and 2 dogs, there is not much room left for an herb garden, or any garden for that matter. That was an issue until I came upon the wonderful pallet garden on Pinterest a few weeks ago.

Pallet Herb Garden
Pallet Herb Garden

How to Make a Pallet Herb Garden

Working with The Home Depot on the outdoor and gardening campaign has been fun, and for my last post I am going to be using those wonderful herbs I purchased last week on my shopping spree.

I have always wanted to make an herb garden, but with a small yard, 4 children, and 2 dogs, there is not much room left for an herb garden or any garden for that matter. That was an issue until I came upon the wonderful pallet garden on Pinterest a few weeks ago.

I was excited to find that Pinterest picture, because just a few short weeks ago when we had sod delivered, they delivered it on 3 pallets! The only problem, those pallets were in very bad shape. These were the saddest and most beat up pallets I have ever seen. I sorted them out and decided on a pallet I wanted to use.

Pallet with bad boards removed
Pallet with bad boards removed

Once I removed all of the broken and rotten boards, I was basically left with a frame, and still a very sad looking frame at that.
To get back what I needed for my herb garden, I cut a three 1 x 4 boards I had laying around from a previous project.

cut boards for pallet
cut boards for pallet

I then broke out my Kreg jig. This is an amazing piece of equipment, and I can’t imagine life without my Kreg.

Using the Kreg
Using the Kreg

After creating the pocket holes, I went ahead and simply attached them to my pallet.
(Please ignore the mess behind my pallet)

Pallet After Adding Shleves
Pallet After Adding Shleves

After adding the shelves, it was then time to add the facing to hide the shelves.

After facing was added to pallet
After facing was added to pallet

The other thing you might notice in this picture is the feet I added to the pallet. I didn’t want to lean this up against a wall, and I happened to have some small angled boards leftover from a previous project that I made the wrong angled cuts on. I saved those wrong angled boards and was able to use them here!

Angled boards used for feet.
Angled boards used for feet.

I grabbed my trusty clamp and began attaching!

Attaching Angled Feet
Attaching Angled Feet

Here is another great picture of the pallet from behind. I have the shelves leaning back slightly so any water can easily run off and not accumulate.

Backend view of the shelves
Backend view of the shelves

After I finished here, I then grabbed some paint and gave this pallet some “pretty”. The color is actually a small sample bottle I had on hand called Appletini by Valspar.

Painted Pallet
Painted Pallet

After I painted my pallet, I went back and gathered those beautiful herbs I selected at The Home Depot Garden Center. I could tell that they were also excited to have a new home besides my front patio.

I grabbed my new garden hand tools I picked up at the Garden Center of Home Depot and put my pretty herbs in their pots. The neat thing is they have a wrapping you keep on them and it disintegrates over time. As I placed them into the new herb garden pallet, something just didn’t look “finished” to me.

Plain painted herb garden with herbs.
Plain painted herb garden with herbs.

I decided I needed to dress things up a bit, so I grabbed my computer, cranked up the Silhouette cutting machine, and created some labels on vinyl.
I then attached the vinyl labels to my pallet.

Attaching Vinyl Labels from the Silhouette to the Pallet Herb Garden
Attaching Vinyl Labels from the Silhouette to the Pallet Herb Garden

Now she looks pretty! I think the labels added a nice little touch. Here it is all finished!

How to Make an Herb Garden with a Pallet
How to Make an Herb Garden with a Pallet



I am so excited to finally have my very own herb garden, and I feel good about upcycling that poor pallet into such a pretty piece. What a perfect post for today, it is Earth Day after all.
We love to cook around here, so I can imagine I will be making an additional garden pallet to add some peppers into. What do you think?

Vertical Pallet Herb Garden
Vertical Pallet Herb Garden

It’s definitely a big change from that plain pallet, and I know we will get a lot of use out of our new herb garden.

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April 22, 2013 · 70 Comments

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