Posted by Emily Harris on October 20, 2010 at 11:08pm
I'm planning to set up some new wooden planter box gardens soon. I'm in an apartment so container gardening is my only option. Do you have any suggestions of what I could line my boxes with to prolong the life of the wood that's more environmentally friendly than black plastic bought from the garden store?
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Hi Emily, you could always buy approximately two feet of "pond liner" which comes in 20 foot widths. You'd buy a 2 foot "length" so as to have enough to overlap the wood floor of your planter box. Then cut it to the size needed to completely line your box, staple it in place with a heavy duty stapler and punch holes in the bottoms of the planter boxes through the liner for drainage.
Pond liner is expensive, but it will last a lifetime and you needn't ever worry about "recycling" the stuff.
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Pond liner is expensive, but it will last a lifetime and you needn't ever worry about "recycling" the stuff.