Planters in winter

While I am here and on a blogging roll I figured I would also type up what is happening in my garden. I have a new planter thanks to my fabulous father. I had this idea a couple weeks ago to provide more light to my plants without taking much more space and a couple of weeks ago I talked to my dad to hear his thoughts on how to go about building it but I never managed to find the time to try and build it. Thankfully my dad took it upon himself to go and test it out and build a prototype my planter light stand.

Rewind: So winter is always depressing for plants. I have to bring them all inside in order to keep plants growing and with the way our apartment is its almost impossible to get enough light. The only place where a decent amount of light gets in is in the bedroom and even with that I have had a lot of issues with growing things. So the other day I was trying to figure out how to set up some extra plant lights. The idea was simply, build a box (that can hold the planter pots) with 2 poles running up opposite sides. Attached to the poles would be a florescent light. Piece of cake...

What my dad created was FABOULOUS!!!! it was a nice box on the bottom the poles and a box on the top that contains 2 light bulbs.

The upper box contains the lights and provides the perfect place to hold extra smaller plants that don't need as much light.

The full dresser :)

Now you may be wondering about why I put the planter pots sideways in the light box. The simply answer is that the lower box  is too large for my pots and I wasn't going to be able to fit all the plants on the dresser even with the added space on the lights. That being said, Talia came up with a brilliant idea that will look amazing and allow for the perfect fit. Ikea glass décor pots!

We are planning to put 10 of these under the lights. The fit perfectly with a small amount of space around the pots. The glass will look amazing and the depth will be really nice for starting plants in. The best part, we have a coupon for ikea so we can go and pick them up in january. I can't wait until My dad and I can make more of them so that I can start growing all my herbs and even start planting for the spring early :)

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