How to Use Wooden Crates as Garden Containers
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Pop pots
Pots of Verbena Superbena ‘Royale Cherryburst' make their home in soda crates. Stack several crates of different colors for maximum impact.
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Pots in a box
A partitioned soda crate provides both storage and a display for decorated seedling pots.
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Vegetable vessel
This celery crate continues its legacy of toting veggies.
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Bloom box
What used to be a drawer in a factory is now a container garden for petunias and purple velvet plants (Gynura).
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From candy to caddy
This Halvah candy box has been turned into a caddy for gardening tools.
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Crate collection
Crops with full root systems, like eggplant, can make their home in deeper crates. Crates with handles make plants like kale and sweet William portable.
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Box of bounty
A long narrow celery box is perfect for transporting veggies, like radishes, that have roots and long leaves.
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Herbs in a crate
An herb garden (with pennyroyal, lavender, sage, basil and thyme) grows in a crate that used to be a fastener drawer.
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Begonia blooms
Begonia Million Kisses ‘Amour' blooms overflow from a repurposed fruit crate.
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Colorful tote
Painted crates look great with flowers in contrasting colors. This periwinkle blue fruit crate holds glass jars with bouquets of freshly cut sweet William.