Home + Garden Garden Container Gardens How to Use Wooden Crates as Stylish and Sturdy Garden Containers By Midwest Living editors Midwest Living editors Midwest Living's experienced editors create best-in-class travel, lifestyle, food, home and garden content you won't find anywhere else. We're loudly, proudly Midwestern, and we're passionate about helping our audience explore and create through award-winning storytelling. Midwest Living's Editorial Guidelines Updated on March 17, 2023 Trending Videos Wooden crates—vintage or new—make sturdy container gardens as well as storage solutions for garden tools. Check out our ideas for using crates to hold flowers, store seedling pots, corral garden implements and more. 01 of 10 Pop Pots Pots of Verbena Superbena 'Royale Cherryburst' make their home in soda crates. Stack several crates of different colors for maximum impact. Creative Garden Containers 02 of 10 Pots in a Box A partitioned soda crate provides both storage and a display for decorated seedling pots. Five Easy Annuals From Seed 03 of 10 Vegetable Vessel This celery crate continues its legacy of toting veggies. Enjoy a Vegetable Container Garden 04 of 10 Bloom Box What used to be a drawer in a factory is now a container garden for petunias and purple velvet plants (Gynura). 05 of 10 From Candy to Caddy This Halvah candy box has been turned into a caddy for gardening tools. 06 of 10 Crate Collection Crops with full root systems, like eggplant, can make their home in deeper crates. Crates with handles make plants like kale and sweet William portable. Stacking boxes makes your plants easier to reach, much like a raised bed garden. 07 of 10 Box of Bounty A long narrow celery box is perfect for transporting veggies, like radishes, that have roots and long leaves. 08 of 10 Herbs in a Crate An herb garden (with pennyroyal, lavender, sage, basil and thyme) grows in a crate that used to be a fastener drawer. 09 of 10 Begonia Blooms Begonia Million Kisses 'Amour' blooms overflow from a repurposed fruit crate. 10 of 10 Colorful Tote Painted crates look great with flowers in contrasting colors. This periwinkle blue fruit crate holds glass jars with bouquets of freshly cut sweet William. 20 Beautiful Flower Arrangements Was this page helpful? Thanks for your feedback! Tell us why! Other Submit