One day, I got a really odd idea in my head. Winter was on the way, and I realized that we'd have to move all those lovely plants off the back deck, where they were elegantly draped across the railings (in these really cool planter boxes Cheryl had found at the store which are designed to straddle 2x4s). I wanted to keep the plants alive, if possible, but the only way to do that, was to bring them indoors and put them in a place with lots of sunshine.
There aren't a lot of windows on the southern side of the house, and none with any kind of mounting platform which the planter boxes could straddle.
But there was this big blank spot in the kitchen where the kitchen table used to be, right in front of the sliding glass door. Perfect!
So all I needed was a structure which could hold all the planters in a kind of vertical stack in front of the sliding glass door. Some kind of stair-step structure, so that one plant wouldn't cast shadows on the ones behind it.
Something like ... a ladder!
So that's what I created, over the course of an afternoon. A plant ladder. It isn't yet "done" yet. Since it's going to get water spilled on it occasionally, it will need some kind of water-proofing. And I'd like to set up some kind of auto-watering / auto-draining pump on it so it won't require a lot of attention.
But it's a start.
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