The best ideas for the wine box
- The mini rock garden: Create a mini landscape by skillfully distributing small and large stones on the earth in the wine box. Put sedum plants and small cacti or other succulents in the spaces between them.
- The herb garden: sage, peppermint, rosemary and co. Thrive in the wine box and look particularly beautiful in the kitchen on the windowsill or balcony.
- Fruit and vegetables out of the box: Salads, cress and even strawberries can be grown in the box on the balcony or terrace.
- Autumn or spring box: decorate seasonally! In spring, plant daffodils, hyacinths or crocuses in the box and decorate it for Easter. In autumn, you can put autumn aromas, autumn chrysanthemums and the hardy heather and decorate with chestnuts, colorful leaves and ornamental pumpkins.
Plant the wine box step by step
To plant the wine box you will need:
- one or more wine boxes
- Pond liner or similar
- Stapler
- Expanded clay (€ 17.50 at Amazon *) or broken ceramics
- Garden soil or potting soil
- possibly waterproof paint or varnish
- optional: pebbles, moss or mulch
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1. Line the wine box waterproof
If you want your wine box (s) to stand outdoors, you should first paint them with a weatherproof paint or varnish. Particularly beautiful, especially if you want to plant several wine boxes, are harmoniously coordinated strong colors.
Then line your wine box with the pond liner or another tear-resistant liner. Let the foil overlap a little 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 pottery shard or something similar to prevent 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 boxes in the desired location and fill them with soil.
Depending on the desired planting, it can make sense to fold in some compost (e.g. for growing vegetables) or mix in some sand (e.g. for succulents). Fill your wine box three-quarters full with soil.
4. Place plants
Now put the plants you have chosen in the desired location and fill in the remaining soil. Leave a pouring rim about two to three centimeters between the surface of the soil and the edge of the wine crate.
5. Optional: cover the surface
To keep your planted wine box from drying out and to prevent the growth of weeds, you can finally cover the soil with pebbles, mulch (€ 99.99 on Amazon *) or moss.
Tips
A visually very attractive variant for larger areas is the stacking of several planted wine boxes as a pyramid. First, stack the boxes lined with foil and varnished before filling them with soil and planting them.
