Recycled Pallet Garden Boxes

These boxes are so beautiful they make me giddy with happiness. They're handcrafted by Alicia and Lee Howard, of Winchester, Kentucky, who create them from recycled untreated-wood pallets. Alicia and Lee are using these containers and others to garden organically - all above-ground!

And, with the Clark County Public Library's First Annual Tomato Jamboree and Harvest Party (including a tomato tasting event and a homemade tomato cage display & contest)  happening on Saturday, August 18, the Library will be giving away one of these beauties in a drawing as one of our activities on that day!

This is the smaller of the two boxes (and that's my last flat of Grandfather Ashlock on the corner of it). The depth of the part of the box that will actually contain the soil and plants is 15". Alicia and Lee designed this one with the little decorative herb/flower box on the front.

This is the larger of the two boxes. I asked Alicia and Lee to design one for taters, and this beauty is what they built. Take a look at the fantastic workmanship inside the box as well as outside. (That's a flat of Butler Skinners, upper right.)

Both boxes side by side in front of our rain barrels.