Show off your plants and give them more light with this attractive and easy wooden plinth. Darren Wright shows you how easy it is to make at home...
I spend a lot of time in the garage trying to make weird and wonderful things from all the off cuts of wood that I have accumulated over the years. Some projects work, some fail spectacularly!
I currently have about 3 in various stages of completion in the workshop. Today’s project, however, was a success and managed to get completed in an afternoon. Diana was in the garden and she was lamenting the fact that some of her plants were not getting as much sun as the others surrounding them. She asked if I could create a small step to make them a similar height. A plinth, if you will. This would serve to raise the smaller pots up to the same level as the larger pots and stop them being left in the shade. This plinth only needed to be about 300mm high, 750mm long and 350mm wide as it would only be supporting small plant pots.
PARTS LIST
25mm x 25mm x 750mm battens, 14
50mm x 100mm x 350mm feet sections, 6
35mm x 18mm x 350mm battens for top section, 3
35mm x 18mm x 130mm battens for foot sections, 4
I started by searching through the off cuts bin for the different parts. For the top I decided to use some rough sawn pine battens that I’ve