The gaps between the slats in a pallet make perfect pocket planters and mean that your wall planter is almost instantly ready to plant. It just needs sealing with plastic around the back and sides to hold the potting compost and plants in place. Most crops like a warm, bright spot so choose a sunny wall for your pallet. Before planting secure it to the wall with vine eyes and wire, to stop it toppling over after watering and when it gets heavy with produce. Plant the pallet through the slats, treating each row as a separate layer. To help stop potting compost falling through the layers, line each layer with a length of plastic. We filled green wall pallet with quick-growing, productive edibles such as salads, courgettes (zucchini), and herbs, but such a pallet could also become a colorful display when planted with bright seasonal plants and annuals.

What You Will Need

• Tape measure and pencil

•Pallet

• Black plastic sheeting

• Scissors

• Staple gun

• Vine eyes or hooks

• Drill and masonry bit

• Wire • Multipurpose potting compost

Plants:

A combination of annual edible flowers, herbs, fruit, and vegetables

Edible flowers, e.g. nasturtium, pansy, pot marigold

Herbs, e.g. lemon verbena, rosemary, thyme

Planting Your Green Wall Pallet

1. Measure your pallet and cut a sheet of plastic to cover the back and the sides. Use the staple gun to attach it to the pallet.

2. Screw a vine eye or hook into each side of the pallet and position it against the wall. Drill a hole in the wall on either side of the pallet, then screw in a vine eye or hook and fasten it with wire to a vine eye or hook on the pallet.

3. Start to fill the pallet with potting compost, pouring it in from the top until the lowest layer is full.

4. Plant the lowest layer through the slats of the pallet, topping up with potting compost. Then water the layer.

5. Insert a sheet of plastic between this and the layer above it. Continue adding potting compost, planting, watering, and inserting plastic sheeting until you reach the top.

6. Plant up the top of the pallet with the more upright plants, such as the tomato and rosemary, and water in.