Before and After: Pallet to 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.
I removed all of the broken boards, which you can see were most of them. I was left with only a frame. 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.
Boards cut at (3 total) 39" 14/16ths and (6 total) 17" 14/16ths to replace the other broken boards, and to create the shelves for my plants. I then broke out my Kreg jig. This is an amazing piece of equipment, and I can't imagine life without my Kreg. 
Creating angled pocket holes for my shelves After creating the pocket holes, I went ahead and simply attached them to my pallet. (Please ignore the mess behind my pallet)
Shelves added to the pallet frame After adding the shelves, it was then time to add the facing to hide the shelves. 
Facing for the shelves, starting to look good! 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! 
Boards with angles from a previous project that I cut wrong and saved, and I have found a use for them here as feet! I grabbed my trusty clamp and began attaching! 
Attaching feet to the herb garden pallet 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. 
Rear Facing Pallet Picture After I finished here, I then grabbed some paint and gave this pallet some "pretty". 
Pallet Painted After I painted my pallet, I went back and gathered those beautiful herbs I selected atThe Home Depot Garden Center. I could tell that they were also excited to have a new home besides my front patio. 
All of my lovely herbs from The Home Depot Garden Center. As I placed them into the new herb garden pallet, something just didn't look "finished" to me. 
Plain Herb Garden Pallet I decided I needed to dress things up a bit, so I grabbed my computer and created some labels on vinyl.I then attached the vinyl labels to my pallet.
Now she looks pretty! I think the labels added a nice little touch. Here it is all finished! 
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?
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. Thanks for following along with our Home Depot posts, and thanks again to The Home Depot for allowing us to be apart of the outdoor campaign! It’s home improvement time, and The Home Depot has everything you need to #DigIn for Spring. No matter what projects you want to tackle, they have great values on all you need. They’re ready to help you with renovation ideas and expert advice, too.
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