The Herb and Vegetable Planter

The Herb and Vegetable Planter ....... I made this planter (3.00 m * 0.5 m in size) out of old recycled timber screwed together. I have this new wonderful 24 volt battery powered drill that can slowly drill holes through timber to the length of the drill. Then you can simply turn the chuck of the drill and simply replace the drill with a socket head to screw in hexagonally headed coach scews. If you want take the screw out, you press the reverse lever and the drill reverses out the screw.

I made an initial frame so that it had two internal frame supports. This then made three planting beds. Then I nailed an outside screen of vertical boards cut at random lengths to give a soft undulating edge. The three internal garden beds were lined and trimmed with plastic sheet to prevent moisture from the future compost affecting the timber frame. Seven wheelbarrows of compost from the big heap down the hill, were wheeled to fill the beds. Herbs (Chives, Basil, Coriander, were planted in one bed. Then several sprouted onions in pots, which I grown in pot several months earlier, were planted in the second bed along with two tomato seedlings. In the third bed were planted a rhubarb plant and several other tomato seedlings.

We had obtained the rhubarb plant from a plant sale very cheaply up at Toowoomba a week ago when we went up for the Carnival of Flowers. If we have our own rhubarb plant, we can obtain stems whenever we want to cook them. You cut off the leaves as the acetic acid in them leaves makes them toxic. We could only obtain rhubarb whenever we went up to Tamborine Mountain in the summer time. That was little erratic as it depended on us going up to mountain in the right season.

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