Vive la France! Construct a Tall Picket Planter

Make your personal DIY Tall Picket Planter with these easy to observe constructing plans. A pair of tall wood planters will look nice and add curb enchantment round your entrance door or storage, and it prices a lot much less to construct it your self!

Add extra curb enchantment by constructing a trellis planter, cedar monogram letter planter, or simple DIY customized window bins.

Bonjour mes amis! As a DIY blogger, I am always searching for inspiration for my subsequent undertaking. Final 12 months I created this amazing planter primarily based upon some that I noticed at Versailles. I cherished them once I noticed them and I’ve cherished having mine personal pair right here at residence.  

The hubs really commented right now how nicely they’ve held up (we had one of many hottest summers final 12 months and one of many wettest springs this 12 months so it’s needed to cope with the worst of the worst for a wooden product). Once I left for our trip in June, I knew I wished to search out one thing superior to construct for Cass and her Remodelaholic crew. Our first cease was in Paris and whereas heading to one in every of my favourite cafes, I noticed this:

Isn’t it superior!!!!???!! This magnificence is large, this tall wooden planters is towering at 3 toes tall! It actually made an announcement on the entrance of the uber-luxe lodge and I knew immediately this could be the right undertaking for Cass! However, how do you make a tall wood planter? Properly I’m right here with the plans for what I’m calling the Vive la France Planter!

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The best way to Construct a Tall Picket Planter Tutorial

Supplies

Approximate value: $50

* Be aware: As common, I’ve constructed my planner with excessive finish wooden to make sure they’ll final, have good sturdiness, and never rot out quick. The price of simply the pickets and furring strips is $20.  This is perhaps undertaking for scrap wooden cuts for those who occur to have a good quantity of lower offs.

You should use a thinner/cheaper piece of wooden on prime or make the highest out of furring strips which have been glued collectively and save between $10 – $20 off of the undertaking. 

Minimize Record

• (20) 5/8″ x 3 1/2″ x 18″ cedar pickets
• (20) 5/8″ x 3 1/2″ x 13.75″ cedar pickets
• (4) 1″ x 2″ x 35″ furring strips
• (6) 1″ x 2″ x 16.25″ furring strips
• (11) 1″ x 2″ x 13.75″ furring strips
• (1) 3/4″ x 18″ x 15.25″ pink oak plywood panel

Constructing Directions

Step 1: Drill pocket holes

Drill pocket holes at each ends of every 1″ x 2″ furring strips (each the 16.25″ and 13.75″ size items).

Step 2: Construct facet body of planter

Connect (1) 1″ x 2″ x 16.25″ items to the underside of (2) 1″ x 2″ x 35″ furring strips utilizing 1 1/4″ pocket screws. Repeat on different facet.

Step 3: Be a part of the 2 sides collectively

Connect (1) 1″ x 2″ x 13.75″ items to the underside of (4) 1″ x 2″ x 35″ furring strips utilizing 1 1/4″ pocket screws. It will create the muse of the planter.

**If it is advisable weight this planter right down to keep away from it being blown or knocked over, add a couple of extra furring strips to the bottom to carry that future weight.

Observe the directions beneath of the planter shelf on this backside basis. See the Q and A beneath for concepts of the way to put the planter along with a weight on the backside and what to make use of to weigh it down.

Step 4: Body the Pot Shelf

Repeat the method above at both 8″ (for 1 gallon pots) or 12″ (for 3 or 5 gallon pots) from the highest of the 35″ furring strips. It will create the body for the plant help.

Step 5: Connect Furring Strip Shelf

Utilizing a brad nailer, connect (5) 1″ x 2″ x 13.75″ furring strips, equally spaced, to the plant help.

Step 6: Add High Body Furring Strips

Utilizing pocket screws, connect the remaining (2) 1″ x 2″ x 16.25″ furring strips and (2) 1″ x 2″ x 13.75″ furring strips to the highest of the (4) 35″ furring strips.

Step 7: Connect Entrance and Again Planks

Utilizing a brad nailer, connect the primary 5/8″ x 3 1/2″ x 18″ cedar picket to the body. Be aware: It ought to dangle over roughly 5/8″ on both sides of the furring strip. Repeat this course of till all (10) 5/8″ x 3 1/2″ x 18″ boards are hooked up to the furring strips. Repeat this course of on the other facet.

Notes: If it is advisable weigh the planter down (relying on its remaining location), see my notes within the Q and A beneath. You might need to go away off 1/2 of the planks on the again OR facet with a view to add the load as soon as the planter is in place. And end the planking in place.

**It might be simpler to begin with the facet planks to make lining up the back and front longer boards simpler, since they’ll line up with the facet planks and also you received’t have to measure every one.

Step 8: Connect Aspect Planks

Utilizing a brad nailer, connect the primary 5/8″ x 3 1/2″ x 13.75″ cedar picket to the body. Be aware: It ought to sit between the planks on both facet. Repeat this course of till all (10) 5/8″ x 3 1/2″ x 13.75″ boards are hooked up to the furring strips. Repeat this course of on the other facet.

**It might be simpler to begin with these facet planks to make lining up the back and front longer boards simpler, since they’ll line up with the facet planks and also you wont have to measure every one.

Step 9: Countersink Drill Holes and Connect Boards with Screws

Utilizing the three/8″ drill bit, drill holes 1″ from the highest and 1″ from the facet of every plank. Drill one other gap 1″ from the underside and 1″ from the facet of the plank. Repeat this on the opposite facet of the plank. Proceed doing this on all planks (there can be a complete of 160 holes). After drilling the holes, connect the out of doors screws.

Step 10: Hint planter on prime boards

Middle your required pot (1, 3 or 5 gallon) the wrong way up on the three/4″ x 18″ x 15.25″ pink oak plywood decking panel and hint it.

**Do not forget that this prime board will be pieced along with cedar planks to chop some value.

Step 11: Minimize Out Gap

Utilizing your jig noticed, lower out the traced circle.

Step 12: Connect High

Utilizing a brad nailer, connect the highest to the planter.

Step 13: Stain Wooden

If desired, stain the topper black. Cowl all the planter with Thompson’s Water Seal or some other stain/poly made for out of doors software. Place potted plant in planter and luxuriate in your new out of doors planters!

This undertaking is a bit time consuming (160 screws!!!), so no want to attach!  It’s nevertheless, very simple to hold out, and can be robust and maintain as much as all the weather.  Simply assume, in any case of these screws are in, this planter will make fairly an announcement to your porch or patio.  Consider the curb enchantment it will add to your own home to have these flanking your entrance door and even your storage doorways.

Tall Picket Planter Questions and Solutions

Q. Dimensions of this tall planter?

Total the scale of those tall planters are 18″ large in entrance, 15″ deep by 3′ tall.

Q. What can you utilize a tall planter for?

This undertaking is nice for 12 months spherical décor and curb enchantment to your residence. 

These planters could be good for a balcony or deck.  Place them within the nook of your deliberate house, to provide the deck some in-built grandeur.  This additionally would assist to make an out of doors house really feel extra delineated and mark the perimeters, permitting you to divide an out of doors house fantastically. 

Simply outdoors your again door, this planter would make for an excellent herb backyard for cooking, herbs are lovely and helpful!   Try our different concepts for herb gardens right here.

At Christmas time this planter can be utilized to brighten for the vacation.  Chick out this put up for concepts of the way to type a tall planter with winter décor. 

This tall wood planters DIY undertaking might additionally make an excellent spot for a patio backyard.  The right place so that you can develop some greens this summer time.  To make sure your plants stay watered (greens can’t be forgotten or they die!) think about a self watering pot. 

Q. Would this planter work with benches?

A bench positioned between two of those planters would make for a personal little spot to take a relaxation… makes me consider a Jane Austin novel! 

For those who constructed the body with a 2×2, you may probably even string a 4′ 2×4 from the facet body of 1 planter to the facet body of one other planter.  Then simply plank the highest like the perimeters of the planter to create a in-built bench.  Simply remember to sand rather well to keep away from splinters!

Q. What crops are you able to plant in a DIY Tall Planter?

There are such a lot of choices for planting on this DIY planter.

• An evergreen shrub would look nice 12 months spherical. This may be actual (or examine beneath for some nice fake choices.)
• A faux 4′ tall evergreen topiary (I’ve these on my entrance porch and LOVE them- not watering invovled!)
• Faux Boxwood Balls – stick with me. I’ve additionally used these in my entrance planters and LOVE the no watering (do you detect a theme?)
• Succulents for a contemporary design aesthetic (for these of us that don’t need to water day-after-day. I feel a string of pearls trailing over the facet could be superb.)
• Flowers – fantastically blooming annuals, with some spiky plant for peak and a few candy potato vine for a trailing edge.

Q. Are wooden planters good for crops?

The quick reply is sure. As a result of wooden is a pure materials it received’t harm your crops. Simply ensure that if you’re utilizing salvaged materials (like pallet wooden for instance) that there’s a probability that it might have are available contact with a chemical and keep away from utilizing this to develop edible meals.

On this explicit plan the plant is in a planter not in direct contact with the wooden, so salvaged supplies could be secure to make use of and nonetheless develop edible crops.

Q. What’s the greatest wooden to make planters out of?

I might advocate Cedar planks like talked about within the constructing plan above. These planks are usually not solely reasonably priced, but additionally bug resistant and shouldn’t shrink considerably like handled lumber.

A tender pine will break down shortly if in a variety of direct daylight. If you’re considering of creating this from salvaged wooden like pallets for instance ensure that the planter is out of direct daylight many of the day, and if potential out of the rain/sprinklers. I might retailer in a spot the place it received’t get too moist within the winter time as nicely to extend the lifetime of the construct.

Relying on the place you reside Cyprus, and or Redwood is also good naturally bug resistant wooden selections. However remember that these selections might improve the value considerably.

Q. Ought to I put something on the backside of my planter?

Relying on the ultimate location of this planter, weighing it down could also be a needed step to keep away from it being knocked over.

As a way to give this planter a spot to weigh it down chances are you’ll want so as to add some furring strips to the underside (identical to you added for the planter shelf- see steps above) Add the pickets over the entrance and two sides, then JUST the highest half of the again, leaving the again open on the underside.

Put in place after which fill the underside with rocks, bricks, or any heavy trash you will have mendacity round (heavy is the key phrase (if it suits you may even fill a 5 gallon bucket with water and seal it shut and place that on the backside) Then cowl the again with the planks. utilizing solely screws to connect he wooden to allow them to be eliminated if it is advisable transfer the planter.

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