If you want to dress up your porch, deck, or garden with some greenery, consider taking a DIY approach with outdoor planter box plans. Building elevated planter boxes offer several advantages, ...

Learn how to build a wooden raised planter box with hidden drainage to help keep your deck or patio clean. This versatile DIY box is ideal for growing herbs, vegetables, or flowers, and features a ...

Expert DIYer April Wilkerson builds a DIY planter box for garden or patio use, combining durability and attractive design.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Sometimes the planters at your local hardware store just aren’t ...

Our 8-by-22-foot deck looked a little plain, so we decided to build a planter. The soil box is made from a thick plastic soap barrel taken from the dumpster of a company that washes buses and trucks.

A box with a trellis allows plants to climb, writes Greig Morgan. This simple planter box has a built-in screen which is handy for tying up climbers such as sweet peas or securing tomatoes. With ...

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Editor’s note: Welcome to the 69th installment of Brownstone Boys Reno, a reader renovation diary about renovating a brownstone in Bed Stuy. See the first one here. They also blog at ...

Control freaks (guilty!) can sometimes have conniption fits out in the garden, where everything from the weather to the worms simply cannot be tamed. But a DIY raised garden bed? In many ways, it’s ...