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Every room could use a little greenery, and now Carter Oosterhouse has found a way for you to have a beautiful indoor garden all year round. From herbs to succulents, it is possible to foster lush plants in a creative way. With a hanging shoe rack and few gardening supplies, here's how you can bring the outdoors in.

Step 1
Hang a hanging shoe rack and fill each pocket with some soil. Keep in mind that things can get messy, so choose your workspace wisely.

Step 2
Insert your plants. Consider grouping them with like plants or arranging them for color. Adhere extra plastic on the back to create a moisture barrier when you hang the garden on your wall.

Step 3
Fill a planter box with rocks as a catch-all.

Step 4
Mount brackets along the wall to hold your planter. Measure from the top of the planter to figure out where to mount the rod from which your garden will hang. Install wall anchors and a pipe.

Step 5
Use heavy duty S-hooks to hang the garden on the pipe. Enjoy!

Items You'll Need for this GMC Trade Secret

  • Hanging shoe rack
  • Plastic
  • Various plants
  • Potting soil
  • S-hooks
  • Planter box and rocks
  • Brackets, wall anchors and a pipe

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msseafarer

I did this last year on an outdoor fence, as the flowers or herbs grow they cover the shoe bag. I cut the shoe bag in half so I had two planters. The results were beautiful.

Yesterday at 9:57 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Cindy

TACKY, TACKY, TACKY! And when you water the plants, what then? No drainage wholes and it would be impossible to have them or you'd contantly be having a huge mess to clean up all around it! (ALL flowering plants, herbs, etc. will need watering all the time! why not just use planters and do it the sensible way!

May 15 2013 at 6:42 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Janet Lee

Wouldn't it be just great if you used a paint ( all one color ) WATER RESISTANT, and then after all is done, insert all the beautiful greenery? This way no one will really know for sure that what is hanging is a shoe rack? I think it is a marvelous idea, by water resistant paint ( your choice of color) and poke very very tiny , tiny tiny, little holes at the very beneath bottom of each individual pocket will make for a much aerated and healthier environment without ruining the look after a short time? This i would love to see.... Keep going..... without creativity what do have? Thank you...

May 15 2013 at 3:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
papestar

OK this is just plain ugly, maybe a kids project for their play house. I would be concerned about growing any herbs for human consumption in that plastic as well.

April 09 2013 at 11:39 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
hockenberyc

With a few changes in materials, this could be very cool!

April 05 2013 at 1:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
leoperdis

The weight of it would be rediculous, aside from looking really bad.

March 20 2013 at 10:41 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Silent Jack

might look ok......in a trailer

March 20 2013 at 10:34 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
1 reply to Silent Jack's comment
lulu31944

i resent your comment! i live in a TRAILER! my home is beautiful!come down off your hi-horse!

Sunday at 8:45 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Phyllis Frost

That is the worse hanging garden I have ever seen. The pockets are going to get dirty and the pipe is anything but house beautiful. Perhaps you need a few more moments to think about a great indoor garden

March 17 2013 at 5:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lydia

that is a great idea you can put really pretty flowers in them

March 17 2013 at 1:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
petpetdon

What a lame ass, dumb idea.

March 17 2013 at 12:41 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply

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