Do you have a pretty wine box at home and want to use it for something useful? Wine crates can provide a home for flowers, cacti, and even fruits and vegetables. Below you will find ideas on how to plant your wine box and instructions on how to do this step by step.
Violets feel right at home in the wine box
The most beautiful ideas for the wine box
- The mini rock garden: create a mini landscape by skilfully distributing small and large stones on the ground in the wine box. Place sedum plants and small cacti or other succulents in the gaps.
- The herb garden: sage, peppermint, rosemary and co. thrive in the wine box and look particularly beautiful in the kitchen on the window sill or on the balcony.
- Fruit and vegetables from the crate: Lettuce, cress and even strawberries are great for growing in the crate on the balcony or terrace.
- Autumn or spring box: decorate seasonally! Plant daffodils, hyacinths or crocuses in the box in spring and decorate for Easter. In the fall, plant autumn anomalies, fall chrysanthemums, and hardy heather, and decorate with chestnuts, variegated leaves, and ornamental gourds.
Plant the wine box step by step
To plant the wine box you will need:
- one or more wine cases
- pond liner or similar
- staple gun
- Expanded clay (19.73€) or broken pottery
- garden soil or potting soil
- possibly waterproof paint or varnish
- optional: pebbles, moss or mulch
1. Lining the wine box waterproof
If you want to have your wine box(es) outside, you should first paint them with a weatherproof paint or varnish. Harmoniously coordinated strong colors are particularly beautiful, especially if you want to plant several wine crates.
Then line your wine box with the pond liner or another tear-resistant liner. Slightly overlap the foil and staple it in place.
2. Drainage
If you want to leave your planted wine boxes outside, you should cut several holes in the bottom of the pond liner so that excess rainwater can drain off. Cover the drainage holes with a potsherd or something similar to keep them from clogging.
Then put a layer of expanded clay or ceramic shards in the wine crates as additional protection against moisture.
3. Fill with soil
Now place your wine crates in the desired location and fill them with soil.
Depending on the desired planting, it may make sense to fold in some compost (e.g. when growing vegetables) or mix in some sand (e.g. for succulents). Fill your wine box three-quarters full with soil.
4. Put plants
Now put the plants you have chosen in the desired place and fill in the remaining soil. Leave a pouring margin of about two to three centimeters between the surface of the soil and the edge of the wine box.
5. Optional: cover surface
To keep your planted wine box from drying out and prevent weed growth, you can finish by covering the soil with pebbles, mulch (€239.00) or moss.
tips
A visually very appealing variant for larger areas is stacking several planted wine crates as a pyramid. First, stack the foiled and painted boxes before filling them with soil and planting.