How to make a vertical garden
DIY project from NZ Gardener magazine
Jacob Leaf shows you how to maximise your growing space and elevate your gardening to new heights with this clever suspended pot stack.
You will need
Materials
- 1 x 10mm x 1m threaded rod
- 3 x 17cm round terracotta pots
- 1 x 10mm eye nut
- 6 x 10mm flat washers
- 4 x 10mm spring washers
- 7 x 10mm flange nuts
- Resene Quick Dry Waterborne Primer Undercoat
Tools
- Adjustable wrench
- Paintbrushes
- Masking tape
Paint colours
Cost: $75 excluding Resene products.
Instructions
The pots’ drainage holes need to be large enough to fit the 10mm threaded rod, or drill a hole to size. Decorate or paint them before assembly.
Step one — Middle pot
Thread a nut, a spring washer and a flat washer onto the threaded rod. Screw the nut along about 35cm from the bottom end of the rod. Slide on a spring washer and then a flat washer. Next, slide on the middle pot up to the flat washer. To secure, slide on a flat washer under the pot and screw it up tight with another flange nut. Don’t over-tighten and crack the pot.
Step two — Bottom pot
Add a flange nut, a spring washer and a flat washer to the bottom of the rod. Screw these along about 4-5cm, then slide on the bottom pot. Secure with another flat washer, then another flange nut tightened up underneath the pot.
Step 1
Step 2a
Step 2b
Step three — Top pot
From the top of the threaded rod, screw a flange nut down to where the bottom of the top pot will sit (I put mine down about 30-33cm). Add a flat washer, then the top pot. To secure, slide down another flat washer, then a spring washer, then a flange nut.
Step four — Eye bolt
From the top of the threaded rod, screw a flange nut down about 4cm, then a spring washer, then the eye nut. Tighten the eye nut and the flange nut against one another to lock it in place.
To hang, install a screw-hook in a beam, pergola, eave, ceiling or under a balcony.
Step 3a
Step 3b
Step 4