I’m loving the newest addition to our indoor gardens: windowsill succulents. On an innocent trip to Lowe’s to look at self-watering pots, we were distracted by a cute little potted arrangement of four succulents. Then Daniel, ever the green-thumb, said, “We can do this better – let’s plant them ourselves.” We knew the succulents would be great in our rather-wide windowsills, and when we couldn’t find a suitable planter, we had just the solution: our shipping pallets.
Our love of gardening (indoors and out) is well-documented on this site (here, here, and here), and we also happen to have a bunch of shipping pallets lying around (for a DIY table project). The already-sanded wood we’ve harvested from the pallets made the perfect containers for our windowsill garden.
Once the boxes were built, Daniel lined them with plastic (cut from a potting soil bag) and filled them with a mixture of potting soil and perlite.
Once the succulents were settled, we trimmed the edges of the plastic just below the soil line and gave the plants a good soaking via spray bottle.
These little guys soaked up the morning sun.
We built three boxes, one for each window in the bedroom. Daniel had yet another idea: locally harvested rocks to top the soil. So we trekked into the woods, and we (and by we I mean he) gathered pebbles from a little creek. The pebbles were just the right finishing touch.
Et voilà.
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