Vertical Garden With Reinforced Pouches

This Instructable is for a DIY vertical garden using an Ikea waste basket as the base. Adding woven plastic to felt pouches strengthens and adds a water-resistant capacity.

These instructions are for one pouch, but in the pictures I made two. Make even more than that!!

You'll need:

• Plastic bags
• Ikea Variera trash basket
• Heavy duty felt
• Iron
• Parchment paper
• Scissors
• Grommets
• Hammer
• Zip ties
• Needle
• Twine
• Potting soil
• Plants

With scissors,

• Remove and discard side wings from the waste basket
• Remove and discard base

Woven plastic bags give strength and water resistance to the pouches.

• Cut plastic bag into strips
• Arrange strips into tight woven pattern

With iron on low setting,

• Heat plastic between two sheets of parchment paper
• Once cooled, trim rough edges off plastic squares

Make the initial felt pouch

• Cut felt into the a rectangle roughly 8.5 by 7.5 inches
• Fold felt in half, leaving roughly 1 inch at the top and pin in place
• Using twine, sew along the two sides

Position the plastic over the front (shorter) edge of the pouch

• Using twine, attach the plastic to the felt pouch at the top two corners
• Wrap underneath the pouch and knot to the back stitches

Along the top of the pouch,

• Place the grommet base and tool on the right side of felt where you wish to create the holes
• Pound down in one fell swoop (watch your fingers!) and puncture felt with tools
• Repeat on left side

Using two zip ties

• Loop zip tie through the right grommet to the Ikea base
• Repeat on the top left side A

In the pouch,

• Place potting soil
• Remove plants from pots and secure in the pouch, making sure the plants are turned forward

And display!

• You can remove adhesive on the back to attach to wall, or hang
• Make multiples to create a full wall garden