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A garden planter Hello and welcome back! I hope you spent this time wisely and dragged a few tools together? Excellent! Garden time! It’s sunny and the garden needs a bit of TLC but where to start? Broken Planters need replacing so well have at them. They were made from a mixture of pallets and soft wood, quite thin; they lasted a few years but have now collapsed which leads us nicely into material choice. Pressure Treated Softwood Timber is what you’re going to be using. It’s fairly cheap or free and has had an application which is going to help preserve the wood against rot. You can of course
use any other timber and treat it yourself using a variety of products available from B&Q, homebase etc. The timber I’m using today is reclaimed fencing and staging from a garden I cleared out last year. Its pressure treated softwood and not too old or damaged. If I’ve got an old bit of preservative or some old paint on a shelf ill slap a coat on as well. Tools I used were a handsaw, pencil, tape measure, set square, jigsaw, cordless drill, sandpaper. The Jigsaw and Cordless drill are optional but make life a lot easier. I used screws instead of nails mainly because I’ve got a lot of them loose and lying around
needing using up. You can use nails if you are dismantling pallets, use the twist nails or the ones with rings down the shaft, they’re called annular ring. First I decided on my measurements, mine come in at 1.1m long by 45cm wide and 30cm high which is roughly the size of my existing Planters. Always allow a few centimetres extra for inconsistencies of the wood. It’s also a good idea to buy more timber than you need in case of errors and I still make them. Any leftovers can be either hoarded (bad) or made into more crafts (good).