This year I wanted to give my pallet garden a new look. It’s the third year we’ve been using it and it’s still in great shape. The Project Garden campaign was the perfect opportunity for a little assistance. Since we entertain outdoors often in the summer months, I really wanted to add color and pretty blooms to our patio area rather than herbs this time around.
Miracle-Gro’s® latest product innovation, Liquafeed® Universal Feeder, makes feeding as easy as watering.
We simply installed the Liquafeed® Universal to our outdoor spigot, then screwed on our hose. Then just pop in a bottle of MiracleGro feed.
Down position when not in use. Up when feeding.
There’s also a handy water/feed switch so the Liquafeed® Universal can remain in place.
We planted the flowers then soaked the soil with using the Liquafeed® Universal attached to the hose on the mist or shower setting, the same as when I’m watering.
I water my flowers every evening then flip the switch to feed every other week for bigger, more beautiful plants. Feed every 7-14 days with Miracle-Gro All Purpose Plant Food or Miracle-Gro Bloom Booster Flower Food to help plants grow bigger and more beautiful versus unfed plants.
Flowers can be quite the investment and a risky one if your track record isn’t so great with plants, like mine. I want to make sure these beauties thrive all season long!
Oh my goodness! Gorgeous!
Spilling out like flower gardens on a European balcony but it’s really just a vertical pallet garden in western PA. 😉
I am in love with these bright colored impatiens and happy begonias! Stunning, right?
Get tips for making your own vertical pallet garden tutorial HERE.
Do you have a green thumb? Any helpful tips for maintaining beautiful plants? My new favorite flowers are impatiens. How about you?
FAQ’s about the LiquaFeed Universal
More information about the LiquaFeed Universal Starter Kit
*If it waters, now it feeds with Miracle-Gro® LiquaFeed® Universal Feeder. It’s a great tool to help you reach your gardening goals by providing the essential nutrients your plants need to thrive all season long.
*Miracle-Gro® sponsored this blog post. The opinions and text are all mine.
I am wondering what you used to prevent the soil from falling to the ground.
Hi Christina, we used a fabric weed barrier (stapled) to create pockets. Hope that helps!
Could just be me, but where are the instructions on how they built this? Like someone else asked, how do you keep the dirt enclosed? All I see are giant pictures of different displays & a huge commercial for MiracleGro.
The link to the tutorial is in the article. But here it is again: https://diyshowoff.com/2013/05/15/free-standing-pallet-herb-garden/2/. I stapled weed barrier/fabric to create pockets. Hope that helps!
Beautiful, can you recommend plants that rabbits don’t like.
Hi Marcia! Unfortunately, I have little gardening experience so I don’t know the answer to that. I need to know too! Spotted a bunny nest just yesterday! lol Thanks so much for stopping by! Good luck with your garden!
It doesn’t give instructions for how to build the planter!!!!!!
It lists a link to the instructions here: https://diyshowoff.com/2013/05/15/free-standing-pallet-herb-garden/
Hope that helps! Good luck!
the flower pallet garden is great idea…too bad you didn’t tell us how to make it… only how to use the Miracle Gro LiquaFeed
Thank you!
The article links to the pallet garden tutorial.
You can find tips and edits on what I’d change here: https://diyshowoff.com/2013/05/15/free-standing-pallet-herb-garden
Could use directions on how the pallets need to look to get the pots to hold up in there
There is a link to the tutorial in the article. Here it is again: https://diyshowoff.com/2013/05/15/free-standing-pallet-herb-garden/2/
Hope that helps!
What did you put on the bottom of the shelves?
Hi Yvonne!
There is nothing on the bottom of each ‘shelf’. The fabric weed barrier acts like a pocket (stapled into place around the top). I plant flowers/herbs directly into the fabric pocket. Hope that helps.
This post may show it better than I’m explaining it: https://diyshowoff.com/2013/05/15/free-standing-pallet-herb-garden/2/
How do you keep the soil from falling out of the bottom??? Do you use some kind of liner or plastic?? Then how does the water drain???
I stapled in fabric weed barrier. The dirt stays in, the water drains! Hope that helps!