How to make an urban garden and planter with division in squares.

Organized mini garden with several levels and compartments for plants.
Space saving planter design.

Many different plants and vegetables on a small space.
That is what these planter designs are made for in the first place.
More specifically, these divisions make it possible to grow many species in the same box.
Most of these square foot planters and urban gardens are designed for above the ground.

Use these construction drawings to make a small vegetable garden on your terrace or patio.
As a result of the clever design these planters can be used to grow plants where there is no natural soil available.

Free plans for homemade urban gardens on a square foot.

How to make your own mini garden boxes.

Firstly have a good look at all the steps in these instructions.
Shorten all the seperate planks to size before you start the assembly.
Below you will see a shopping and chopping list with all measurements to shorten the planks.

Construction drawing for wooden planters with nine divisions.
First step, make side panels for the urban garden.
In the first step we make two of these sidepanels.
Connect two planks B with two planks C at the outer ends.
Use selftapping screws which do not completely go through the two planks.
If you use planks of 3 cms. thich then the screws should be about 5.5 cms. long.
How to construct a planter box with divisions for several plant species.
Make the first divisions from planks which are attached from the outside.
In the second step we attach planks between the previously panels, thus constructing the box shape.
Consequently we make three seperate compartments in the box.
To make the compartments we make two seperations, each consisting of one plank on top of another.
On these construction drawings we can see how the the divider panels and shorter division planks are fitted.
Each plank is cross connected with srews going at an angle through the cross sections.
All planks are furthermore attached with screws going upwards through the bottom.

Upside down view of the construction drawing for an urban garden planter.

Sideview and bottom part plan for a square wooden planter box.
See how these four planks connect the sides of the plant box and also serve as legs.
Many screws are used to make the mini garden strong.
See the different angles to fixate the planks and divisions with selftapping screws.
How to make a plant box from scaffolding planks and urban garden design.
This wooden box features top and bottom root seperation divisions which go to the bottom.
Cutting list for all planks to make a planter box and urban garden.
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Firstly cut the planks to these sizes for a square box with nine planters.
And finally, a cutting list for all planks to make a urban garden box.

The square foot garden below has fake divisions which can be easily removed.

Urban garden design and wooden planters with square foot grid division.
Wooden plant box design and square foot divisions in a grid.
Raised wooden planter design with divisions in a square foot grid.
Easy management of the urban garden and a raised plant bed.

Grow your own vegetables and flowers on a very limited space.
Planters for terrace and balcony, grow several species in the same container.
Wooden divisions and placement on a hard surface prevent the roots from spreading out.
Each plant has its own root space as a result of the division in squares.
Therefore there is no problem of some species taking over the whole plant bed.

Square foot urban garden design for planters.
Vegetable garden with raised beds divided in squares.

These examples and construction drawings are derived from our Dutch woodworking instructions.

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