Blue Barrel 55 Gallon Barrel Garden Planters

Apr 18 2017 raised garden made from plastic blue barrels and easy on your back.

Blue barrel 55 gallon barrel garden planters.

Buy products such as 55 gallon black rain barrel rts home accents 35 gal. Shop for rain barrels in garden center. Rain barrel w planter at walmart and save. Cut a plastic 55 gallon barrel in half lengthways and you can use it to create a couple of raised planters for your garden.

Just make sure that you collect plastic barrels that food grade made from hdpe and have contained only food type items. In this article you ll see raised bed gardens earth boxes rain barrels and aquaponics 55 gallon barrel drums projects. The wood was free and the barrels were purchased off of craigslist for 10 a piece. We ve used raised garden beds for years to grow watermelons squash tomatoes peppers eggplants corn and strawberries.

If you have the time tools and skills to do the work you can have a raised bed garden up ready in a day. See more ideas about 55 gallon barrel 55 gallon drum. I used three of the barrels to build six raised garden beds. Make several marks around the perimeter of the barrel with a felt tip pen and then connect the marks with a line.

Using second hand 55 gallon food safe plastic barrels and some scrap wood that i cleaned up on the planer i was able to create some very basic planters for my backyard garden. These can be placed on wooden frames to raise them off the ground to make gardening more accessible for elderly gardeners or those with limited mobility. Ozark beauty strawberries in the full barrel. Evie strawberries will be going in the ot.

Sep 10 2015 explore louann larson rux s board 55 gallon barrel ideas on pinterest. Make a raised garden bed to use outdoors or in a greenhouse. But this year we came up with a new approach using treated lumber and 55 gallon plastic barrels. 2 turn the barrel on its side and drill a 1 2 inch hole on the line.