How to Use Wooden Crates as Garden Containers

Wooden crates—vintage or new—make sturdy container gardens as well as storage solutions for garden tools. Check out our ideas for using crates to hold flowers, store seedling pots, corral garden implements and more.

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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.

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How to Use Wooden Crates as Garden Containers

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Pop pots

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Pots in a box

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Vegetable vessel

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Bloom box

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From candy to caddy

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Crate collection

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Box of bounty

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Herbs in a crate

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Begonia blooms

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Colorful tote

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Pop pots

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Pots in a box

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Vegetable vessel

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Bloom box

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From candy to caddy

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Crate collection

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Box of bounty

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Herbs in a crate

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Begonia blooms

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Colorful tote

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