There have been so many cute hanging herb gardens popping up all over Pinterest and blogs online lately and we just couldn’t wait to create something fun of our own for the studio! This custom potted hanging herb garden was fun to make (just a couple of hours from start to finish!) and looks so good hanging from our ceiling.
When you walk through the doors of our Fresh Collective studio, you look right into the kitchen area and at the side of a big refrigerator. I wanted to create something that was more aesthetically appealing to see without building a wall or something solid to block the view. Enter our hanging herb garden!
DIY HANGING HERB GARDEN
There were just a few items for us to buy, besides the potted herbs, but most we had on hand already. We recently changed over our boys to a bunk bed situation in their room, and had a couple of pallets on hand from their previous beds, which we used for the wood in this project. For one, it was free, and two, the wood already had an aged look which is something I wanted. Next up were the terra cotta pots, which only cost about $.70 at Home Depot and I used some white spray paint I had to give them a good coat of white followed by a gold-dipped look with gold paint.
Here are the instructions, per my husband 😉
Items needed to create a Custom Potted Hanging Herb Garden:
5 – 1/2″ planks, 24″ long x 5 1/2″ wide
8 – 3/16 threaded rod, 36″ long
4 – threaded rod coupling
20 – 3/16 nuts/washers
4 – 3/16 crown bolts
Drill
3 1/2″ hole saw
Instructions:
1. Choose wood. We used 5 1/2″ wide boards from an old pallet we had. It saved us money plus the wood looks aged already.
2. Cut to size. Ours were cut to 24″ long.
3. Cut holes. We used 3 1/2″ holes to fit our terra cotta pots (found at Home Depot for only $.70/ea.)
With a 3 1/2″ hole saw bit and a drill center your holes. We made three holes per board at 5″ from the edge then 12″ then 19″. For our hanging herb garden we used 5 boards total.
4. Drill holes in four corners of each board 1″ from each side for threaded rods. Bit needs to be just bigger than your threaded rod.
5. We hung ours from a drywall ceiling so we drilled holes using 1/2 in hole saw bit in ceiling to fit the crown bolts.
6. Attach the crown bolts to one one side of threaded rod. Leave about 1″ – 1 1/2″ on one side of crown bolt.
7. Squeeze crown bolt and place through ceiling hole (it till reopen on other side to provide an anchor to hang from).
8. Slide first board on the threaded rod and through the pre-drilled small holes. Keep at desired location by using the washer and nut to hold in place. This may take some time to thread all the way to desired location.
9. Attach couplings and next four threaded rod and repeat step 8 until you are out of shelving.
Prep your pots and add in the herbs. Congratulations, you have a hanging garden!
Besides it being a cute way to display herbs and a great way to cover an eye sore we wanted to hide, our kids love noshing on the chocolate mint leaves and lemon!
What do you think? Have you seen herb gardens that you like or have you tried your hand at making one yourself? If you happen to make one like this, I’d love to see!! Just tag me on Instagram or Twitter so I can see it!
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Absolutely love this! I need one! Maybe I can convince Greg to help me make one because I really want an herb garden!
Thanks SO much Meg!!!! It is one of my favorite projects so far!! 🙂
I’ve been trying to get my hubby to build me a hanging herb garden but, he hasn’t seen any he thought were worthy of making. I think yours will be “the one”. I love it! Thanks for sharing.
Oh that makes me smile from ear to ear!! Glad to hear it!! My husband really had a part in making it happen and coming up with the design, so maybe it helps make it more of a man-friendly version 😉 haha. We almost made it with mason jars, but found the pots at home depot and I just really thought the white and gold would be cute… you could make it any color or use any container really!
We have a mini herb garden in our kitchen window but this is so much cuter!
Oh I bet it looks cute in the window though and a great place since they love the light 😉
This is the absolute coolest thing ever! Maybe my black thumb will turn green if I do this. One can hope, because I really want to do this!
Hahaha, thank you!! I love how it turned out!!!
This is a great idea , but I have one question for you < since you have not shown any plates under each pot i guess your thoughts were one pot drips into the one below ?
If yes , Thats ok but what do you do with your last shelf where pots dripping in what ?
My suggestion is you put another plank wood cut out same as above bring it closer to the last shelf and put your plates in it ,
The problem is solved ?
Oliver
GREAT suggestion! Yes the water does drip from one pot to the next, and the bottom one sometimes drips onto my tile floor but it hasn’t bothered me. I don’t over water that one so it’s not as apt to drip.
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how about the water is not drip below , do we need make hole the bottom of the pot.
Hi Lily! These pots do have holes in the bottom. They drip down to the pot below it. 🙂
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Besides it being a cute way to display herbs and a great way to cover an eye sore we wanted to hide, our kids love noshing on the chocolate mint leaves and lemon!
My husband and I just built a planter inspired by this one! I’m curious, did you have a hole on the bottom of your pots or did you fill the hole? If you filled it, how well do the herbs do without the filter on the bottom?
Thank you!
Oh I’m so glad you did!!!! We do have holes in our pots, and they just drain to the pot below. when I water the plants, I don’t usually water the bottom ones and just let the uppers drain into the last row. 🙂
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Has the weight of the pots and herbs held up just fine with the drywall anchors holding it up? We are going to do this and hoping it’s served you well. Thanks
Hi there! Yes, it’s held up GREAT, no issues!
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I NEED to know where you bought that watering can please I love it! My husband and I plan on making this hanging herb garden in mid fall to transplant our herbs as they would get frost outside by then. I am so exited to make it thank you for the inspiration!
I’m pretty sure it’s from Ikea 🙂
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