New Big Long Planter for Carport

The last project I did, which took to long and wore me out, was adding a big flower planter to the end of the carport. I am going to try and get some small trees and plant in the planter and they can grow up tall enough to cover the carport from the street. hat way i gives you a little bit of privacy.

The planter is about 8 feet long x 2 feet wide (inside area) x 2 feet tall




Filled in enough dirt to get it ready for plants


Before (just moved in)


1st container in front of couch


After (now 11/8/09)



This past weekend I went and cut down some bamboo from a another East Nashville house. Very nice guy and very nice house. The BamBoo was harder then I thought to cut down. BamBoo roots move around and just about all stocks are tied together. Almost like a spider web type because 1 stock may have 1 or 4 different roots going off of it and tied with other stocks. I spent 2 hours getting enough for what I needed. Now done, well we will see how the BamBoo does in the planter. If it dies I will have to think of something else. Also I still had to add 15-40 Lbs bags of soil, good thing Home Depot had it on sale for $1 each. (3-27-10)




Before and After

Solar Light Pots

I got this idea from HGTV's website or some garden website, can't remember which one. They used a old broken solar light to put in a container pot to give some plants added height to make the container look bigger without being bigger. I used the same idea but I added it to the flower bed.

Normal looking solar lights


Take the inside lights and top off.




Add a little bit of gravel for drainage


Next I spaced the light fixtures out and pushed them in the ground.


Then add some soil to the light. Now it is becoming a small flower planter.


Now you can see the solar light fixtures and during the growing months you will see some purple Iris growing in the flower bed and then maybe some red or another color growing from the solar lights. Or add something like Crepping Jenny and have lime green/green growing down from the fixtures.

Added Gravel

I wanted to make the area around the trailers look a little better. So I thought about how to do this. I finally decided to get gravel. That way I wouldn't have to weed-eat around the trailers and also help keep the tires from dry rotting. Sitting on grass over time can do that. I went and got 2 tons (4,000 lbs) of gravel on my first trip, but it wasn't enough. I had to end up getting 3 tons total, but I think it is taking shape nicely.

First trip with 2 tons of gravel I was about 3 ft short of my goal as you can see in the pick.


Now with the added gravel I was able to spread it all over where I needed and wanted it to go.






Before

2 New Planter Boxes

With extra lumber from a old deck I got a while back. I made a compost bin and now I have built 2 planters, will make at least another one soon. I am going to put grape plants in 1 and some other plants to grow and hide the trailers.

Wood from old deck


2 Wooden planters done. I put 2 wooden pieces on the bottom and cut them at a angle so that it is easier to slide them to move them out of the way to get to the trailers.