How To Use A Basket As A Planter

Published: May 4, 2021 · Modified: May 4, 2021 by · This post may contain affiliate links ·

Making an Easy Bushel Basket Planter is a perfect way to DIY your outdoor space this summer. A purse of soil, flowers, a trash handbag, and a bushel handbasket are all you demand for this super cute planter.

If you watched my Insta stories a couple of weeks ago you saw me making these like shooting fish in a barrel bushel basket planter for our forepart porch. I take been wanting to decorate our front porch for the longest time and this summertime was the summer to finally do it!

Alpine planters tin can be on the pricey cease and the ones I institute were a piffling more than than I was wanting to spend. Then with a little inventiveness and a telephone call to my mom for execution, these bushel basket panters were built-in!

a black bushel basket on a front porch next to a white whicker bench with flowers

All You Need to Brand a Bushel Basket Planter Is

Bushel Basket
Spray Paint or Acrylic Paint with a paintbrush (in your chosen color)
Round 14 Inch Plastic Planter Liner
A Big Trash Handbag
Large Purse of Potting Soil
Flowers of Choice

2 bushel baskets, with a bag of potting soil, and flowers outside

How to Make an Easy Bushel Handbasket Planter

Step 1

Paint your bushel basket in your desired colour. I cull black since that matched our front porch. I used a tin of black spray paint for this and did 2 coats. Bushel baskets are pretty porous and crude so they can soak upwards a lot of pigment. I did not pigment the inside since that will be unseen.

Yous tin can besides use acrylic paint and a pigment on with a pigment castor besides.

Let dry fully.

a can of black spray paint next to 2 bushel baskets outside

Step 2

Place a 14-inch plastic planter saucer at the lesser of the bushel basket. (*chapter link)

a 14 inch plastic planter saucer in the bottom of a bushel basket on the grass

Step 3

Take a large trash bag (kitchen size or larger) and cut a couple of slits in the bottom of the bag.

a trash bag with scissors next to it and slits cut in the bottom of a trash bag

Step iv

Fill the trash purse upward with soil halfway, then place in the bushel basket on top of the plastic saucer. Proceed to make full near of the way total.

a bushel basket with a trash bag full of soil in it in the grass

Step 5

Place in desired flowers. This will piece of work for total sun or shade flowers just depending on where your handbasket will be. Ours is under our front porch with by and large shade. I didn't Begonias.

Step half-dozen

Add more soil effectually the edges to cover up whatever trash bag edges.

bushel basket fill with soil and flowers on a front porch

Identify in desired location and water as needed.

This volition likewise exist perfect for ferns or in the fall with mums. For a plant that is large and comes in its own plastic container, just proceed the plastic saucer in the bottom and place the fern or mum right inside.

Using the trash bag will be like shooting fish in a barrel to clean up as well to just lift out after the season is over and replace information technology with some mums. Or leave in and replace the flowers depending on the season.

Where Can I Become a Bushel Handbasket?

You can find bushel baskets at your local craft store, plant nursery, hardware store, or just go to Amazon HERE * to have information technology in 2 days because of DUH #convience.

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