Wooden trough planter modular
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Wooden trough planter modular
Trough planter
You are looking for a nice trough planter for your garden?
With an original shape?
Several levels perhaps?
And you want to be able to customise the trough planter to suit your individual wishes?
Well... You do want a lot ;-)
And at the DIY store or garden store they don't have that...
Only those little crummy things like your the one in your neighbour's garden.
And you're pretty handy, but thinking everything out, designing and cutting it to size... That becomes a bit too much.
Not to worry, we have done it all for you.
Just order one of our kits for a trough planter and all you have to do is assemble it.
Screw in a few screws, and the job's done, how easy can it be ?
Every garden is different, your trough planter can be different too
And because things are always different, we have developed a modular trough planter system.
Your large trough planter can consist of 1 to 9 modules.
Even larger, when you decide to connect several trough planters.
With a number of standard parts that we have already cut to size for you, you can make trough planters exactly as you want them.
Almost all shapes are possible. All parts are also available separately so that you can think up and make even more shapes.
Below are a number of shapes for which we have made standard kits. This makes it easy to choose your wooden trough planter.
Please note; the dotted lines on the drawing are not planter walls. The lines only indicate the modular shape and show how you can leave out various parts. So there is no wood there shall we say.
Our garden trough kits only include the complete outer edge of the planter. Would you still like the trough planter to be divided into several sections? You can, but then you will need a lot of wood and posts. And cross posts we do not supply as standard. In this case, please contact our customer service team.
Is the shape you are looking for not among them?
At the bottom of the page we explain how the different parts of the plant trough fit together. And how you can vary even more to compose a large planter according to your wishes.
Square trough planter :
Rectangular trough planter:
Trough planters in other shapes:
In which heights can the wooden trough planter be delivered?
We have developped our building kits for wooden trough planters for the following standard heights:
- 2 shelves high, including capping rail = 29cm
- 3 shelves high, including capping rail = 40cm
- 4 shelves high, including capping rail = 53cm
- 5 shelves high, including capping rail = 65cm
- 6 shelves high, including capping rail = 78cm
But we can make the garden troughs as high as you want. Although higher plant troughs would require additional cross connections. The more soil in the garden trough, the heavier this presses against the outer wall of the garden trough. The wall might break loose as a result.
It is easier to work with levels in stages. For example, you can place a very large garden trough first. Fill it with soil. Then you can place another smaller garden trough on top of it.
Would you like to connect several modules of trough planters together?
Would you like to connect thetrough planter modules together?
You can create even larger wooden trough planters in the garden by connecting several modules together.
This creates hundreds of additional possibilities as you can see in the examples below.
To prevent the walls of the large trough planter from sagging outwards due to the weight of the soil, it is important to connect the posts in the trough planter.
To make the connection between module 3 and 11, you can use 2 T-posts. You do then screw 2 intermediate boards between the 2 posts so that the earth cannot push them apart. A cappin rail is then not necessary. The 2 shelves per cross connection in the trough planter are screwed UNDER the surface of the soil. Rake the earth over it so that you don't see any of the cross boards.
There are too many possibilities to make standard kits.
Depending on your ideas, you can order all the individual parts below.
Compose your own wooden trough planter
Although our construction kits already include dozens of variants of garden troughs, hundreds of variations are possible.
For instance, you can vary with different heights. You could also make a garden trough against a slope upwards or downwards.
The possibilities are endless and I'm sure you will come up with a trough planter that we haven't thought of yet....
To make sure you can customise your trough planter to suit your needs, Vinuovo also allows you to buy all parts for trough planters separately.
There are 2 options, which you can also combine, of course:
- You can order whole posts and planks and enjoy measuring and sawing them yourself to make your trough planter.
- Or you can buy pre-sawn parts for your wooden trough planter that we have already cut to size for you.
Then you don't have to cut everything to size and mitre, you just have to screw it together.
Below is an overview of all available parts, shelves and posts.
How does the modular system for wooden trough planters work?
I can hear you saying...
Sounds great, your modular trough planter system, but I don't understand .... about it!
Let me try to explain with the help of a few drawings.
The modular system consists of shelves of 3 sizes:
- 177cm
- 116.5cm
- 55.5cm
The 116.5cm and 55.5cm shelves together are 172cm long.
That's not right! you say now, because the long shelf is 177cm long. You're right about that, the 5cm difference is to accommodate the post thickness between the 2 short shelves.
But the post is 8.5cm thick, right? Yes right, but there are slots in there... That depth, you have to take that into account too.
Anyway, don't worry about it, it works, we tested it ourselves of course.
The shelves have a tongue and groove so they slide into each other when you stack them. The capping rail on top also has a groove at the bottom that slides over the top shelf.
This makes your wooden trough planter incredibly sturdy.
Posts for a wooden trough planter
To make a wooden trough planter, you will need several wooden posts.
- Slotted corner posts - for making a corner
- H posts with slot - to connect 2 shelves lengthwise
- T posts with slot - to connect shelves in 3 directions
The slotted posts are very handy, as you can slide the shelves into them and secure them with a screw. (pre-drill to prevent the wood from splitting).
With the 3 different shelves in combination with wooden corner H and T posts, the system becomes modular and you can divide the largest square of 177cm into 9 modules.
This allows you to customise the shape of the wooden trough planter exactly to your wishes.
And the great thing is then, that you can also link these blocks of 9 modules together again.
So you can create an endlessly large wooden trough planter...
And then you can also work with different post heights so that you can endlessly vary the heights of your endlessly large trough planter.
Well, the principle of posts and boards is pretty simple.
The capping rail on top becomes a little more complicated.
Capping rails for a wooden trough planter
The capping rails give the large garden troughs a nicely finished top.
These capping rails have a groove at the bottom where the shelves of the side of the trough planter slide in.
This makes the capping rail extremely important for the stability of the sides of the wooden trough planter.
When the weight of the soil in the large trough planter tries to push the sides outwards, the side shelves can become warped. The large capping rail on top prevents this.
Cutting the capping rails precisely to size is a tricky job.
The corners must be perfectly mitred and the groove at the bottom must be exactly flush with the side shelves and the post core.
The length must also be exactly perfect, otherwise the corners will not fit together nicely.
For most people, calculating this is a tricky job, it involves maths and triangle calculations.
That's why we've already done that for you. This way, you order exactly the shelves you need for your wooden trough planter.
There are 3 different capping rails, all 3 in 3 different sizes.
Look at the drawing to see how the different capping rails are used, so you know which rail to order for which corner.
The drawing of the wooden trough planter shows how the different capping rails with the different sizes can be used.
With the 3 different lengths, you can easily build any shape of trough planter yourself.
For a square trough planter or a rectangular wooden trough planter, use only the end capping rails.
If you want to remove a corner from the trough planter, you will need capping rails G (left) and D (right).
The angled corners on these capping rails are sawn in opposite directions so that you can create a nice corner that fits exactly.
And how do you assemble the wooden trough planter ?
Did you manage to read all the text above without falling asleep?
Bravo, well done...
And you've probably completely lost your way by now....
So now we're going to show you how easy it is to assemble the wooden trough planter.
So that you can see for yourself that it's all quite easy, done in no time.
When you buy a ready-to-assemble kit for your wooden trough planter, everything is already custom-made.
Just like playing with LEGO, a child's play ;-)
In what colours is the wooden trough planter available?
As standard, we can supply the lwooden trough planters in the colours natural and black:
- wooden trough planter natural colour: the ordinary colour of softwood. At first, it may be a bit greenish because of the impregnation under pressure. The greenish colour disappears after a few weeks.
- wooden trough planter black: all black wood has had a bath with 2 layers of black paint in the sawmill. Because we cut the boards and posts to size afterwards, the cut edges are NOT painted.
We supply a can of the black original stain with the timber so you can paint the end edges black yourself. If we were to do that for you, the product would be a lot more expensive. And this way you immediately have stain for maintenance if needed.
Of course, you can also paint the wood in other colours. PLUS stains are specially developed for use on pressure treated wood.
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