DIY Kitchen Herb Garden

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DIY Kitchen Herb Garden, planted in a simple-to-build crate. Customize it with paint for a fun decor statement and herbs at your back door!

DIY Kitchen Herb Garden.  As fun to use as it is to create.  Step by step on how to plant your crate up and links to how to build.

Plant a kitchen herb garden in a crate and place at your back door, FlowerPatchFarmhouse.com


Hello everybody, I am so glad you enjoyed my hand painted kitchen garden crate.   Now on to planting it up.

I wanted a kitchen herb garden so that is what I planted.  I got six packs of a couple of the herbs at the local garden center (though you could so easily start these from seeds yourself earlier on in the year as I do HERE or just plant the seeds right in the box and wait for your herbs to come on up!)

Let’s start with the box.  In my DIY tutorial, I showed how I left a gap in the bottom.  To prevent the soil from just falling through I place coffee filters over it, layering as I go.

Coffee filters will let water drain yet keep the soil in.

Plant a Kitchen Herb Garden, FlowerPatchFarmhouse.com


I overlap the filters a bit until the entire space is covered.

Plant a Kitchen Herb Garden in a DIY crate from cedar fence boards, FlowerPatchFarmhouse.com


I failed to photograph the next step but I put about an inch-deep layer of perlite in next.  It aids in preventing the roots from drowning if I get too generous with water or if we get a lot of rain.
Now add your soil. 

I use an organic mix that has proven to work very well for me and it is called Espoma Organic Potting Mix.  But you always have the option of making your own which I have in the past

But for ease and speed go ahead and get this one.  For edibles don’t get any potting soil with fake stuff in it like moisture-retaining gels or chemicals.
I filled mine to about an inch or inch and a half from the top.

Plant a back door kitchen herb garden in a crate, FlowerPatchFarmhouse.com


Then pop in your plants.  I chose to put in 3 basil, 3 flat-leafed parsley, 6 cilantro (coriander), 1 creeping Rosemary and then some Scallion seeds to the far left which will hopefully pop up soon.

Plant a kitchen herb garden at your backdoor in this DIY crate. FlowerPatchFarmhouse.com


I used creeping Rosemary so it would trail over the side taking up less room than a larger Rosemary plant.  I use Rosemary very sparingly so this will be just right.
You could easily use this to plant microgreens too.

Plant a kitchen herb garden in this DIY crate, FlowerPatchFarmhouse.com


I am going to build another just for that.  Or maybe one full of lettuce, that way when it gets too hot in the sun I can move it to a shady spot and keep my lettuce growing.  Cut and come again lettuce would work perfectly.

I have been cleaning out the greenhouse, it got a little cluttered for a bit but now I have room to work on some things.

Like a Succulent planter in a galvanized bucket.  More soon…

Mini garden in a galvanized bucket.
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7 Comments

  1. Is there a way to print out your pictures and instructions? My phone is too small to read while I’m trying to build and paint the box. 😁

  2. I am loving the convenience of it, now to build another, I need more herbs!

  3. You herb garden is beautiful, and I’m sure handy to have as you can easily grab fresh herbs while cooking.

  4. And there is so many things you can plant in it, he can have his own little mini garden.

  5. I want to make one for micro greens too, I originally started this to plant cut and come again lettuces in but thought about how much I would enjoy just walking out my back door for fresh herbs instead of down to the garden (flight of steps as we are built on a hill). I am a building fool lately. I am having fun though. Yes, fresh is best!

  6. This is such a cute project! I love that you painted it yourself too. Thanks for the instructions…I need to make this with my son, he would love it.

  7. The herb garden look wonderful in your new painted box. I cut fresh herbs from my garden yesterday to use in my dinner. Nothing better than fresh.

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