How to Use Wooden Crates as Garden Containers

Pots of Verbena Superbena ‘Royale Cherryburst' make their home in soda crates. Stack several crates of different colors for maximum impact.

A partitioned soda crate provides both storage and a display for decorated seedling pots.

This celery crate continues its legacy of toting veggies. 

What used to be a drawer in a factory is now a container garden for petunias and purple velvet plants (Gynura).

This Halvah candy box has been turned into a caddy for gardening tools.

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.

A long narrow celery box is perfect for transporting veggies, like radishes, that have roots and long leaves.

An herb garden (with pennyroyal, lavender, sage, basil and thyme) grows in a crate that used to be a fastener drawer.

Begonia Million Kisses ‘Amour' blooms overflow from a repurposed fruit crate.

Painted crates look great with flowers in contrasting colors. This periwinkle blue fruit crate holds glass jars with bouquets of freshly cut sweet William.