You will need materials from a construction supermarket or old pallets and boards.
What needs to be done before starting work
- Determine where the rack will be located. You can install the structure on the windowsill so that the seedlings grow under direct sunlight. You can make a high rack of several shelves and put it against the wall or in the corner.
- Decide whether the backlight is needed. There is usually enough light on the windowsill. But if the sun appears infrequently or the rack stands against the wall, where there is always a shadow, you need a phytolamp.
- Decide on the structure and remove the measurements. If you are going to install a rack in the window opening, measure the window height, width and the depth of the windowsill. If the design is inside the room or kitchen, determine its size. Decide whether you will disassemble the rack after planting seedlings or make it stationary and you will use it for storage.
How to make a rack for seedlings on a windowsill of wooden timber and boards
This rack will fit on a wide windowsill, and its dimensions will be 2-3 cm less than the parameters of the window niche. For example, on a window sill with dimensions of 105 × 30 cm, a rack with a base of 100 × 27 cm easily fits easily. The height of the structure is limited to the size of the window opening. Our rack will have three shelves, the total height of the structure is 95 cm.
What will be needed
- 10 boards with dimensions 95 cm × 10-14 cm × 2 cm.
- 6 wooden bars with a section of 2.7 × 2.7 cm and 27 cm long.
- 48 wood screws 3.5 × 41 mm.
- Drill -shurupert.
- A grinding nozzle for a drill (if old boards are used that need grinding).
- Roulette.
- Pencil.
- Water -repellent primer and brush.
- Thin twine 80 cm long to hang a phytolamp.
- Insulating tape.
- 2 fixers with a cord limiter (you can use locks from an old sports jacket);
- Phytolamp.
How to do
Prepare all the necessary tools and materials to work. Cut the boards and bars of the desired length. Pierce the old boards using a special drill nozzle.
If you take new boards and bars, the grinding stage can be missed.
Shot: Alyonin Sad / YouTube
Take two boards and three bars – this is the side wall of the future rack.
Measure with a tape measure on both boards 5 cm from the edge – this is the height of the legs of the rack. At these marks, draw noticeable lines with a pencil.
Put the first block across the boards exactly on these lines. Make the same pencil marks at a distance of 50 cm and 90 cm and put bars on them.
Shot: Alyonin Sad / YouTube
The width of the wall is determined by the length of the bar, the boards are aligned along its edge. A gap may remain between the boards – it will not affect the strength of the structure.
Take a drill with a diameter of 15 mm. Insert it into the drill so that the working length of the drill is 35 mm or just make a marker at a drill at a distance of 35 mm from the tip – this is the depth of the future hole.
Press the bar tightly and drill two holes at a distance of about 1 cm from the edge of each board. Screw screws into them using a screwdriver.
Shot: Alyonin Sad / YouTube
Also make the second wall.
To collect a rack, fix the walls in an upright position so that the bars are inside the future structure – shelves will be held on them.
Put two boards on the lower pair of bars and align their edges along the width of the bars. Make two through holes in the corners of each board and fix the shelf with self -tapping screws.
Shot: Alyonin Sad / YouTube
Also make the middle and upper shelves.
Cover the rack with a primer and wait until the structure dries. Use a water -repellent primer – it will protect the wood from moisture when you water the seedlings.
Shot: Alyonin Sad / YouTube
Make a fixture for phytolamps. To do this, cut the twine in half. Tighten the loop so that the twine covers the middle bar, and the ends of the rope are above it.
Tie the ends with a knot, leaving about 2 cm free, and fix the “tail” with electrical tape.
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Shot: Denis Gareev / YouTube
Fasten all other corners. Make four such racks.
Cut the shelf of the desired width from the pallet.
Shot: Denis Gareev / YouTube
Remove the lower supporting part from the pallets, then remove the nails sticking out of the boards.
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Shot: Denis Gareev / YouTube
Attach all your shelves to the same rack.
Also attach the other three racks to the resulting design.
Shot: Denis Gareev / YouTube
The rack is ready. Now it can be covered with a water -repellent primer, then painted and hung with the shelves with a phytolamp.
What are the options
This rack can be made quickly, and it is inexpensive, especially if you have old pallets in your garage. True, it is heavy and will not fit into the interior of the apartment. But it can be used in the country.
But this small rack for seedlings fits on the windowsill. Instead of shelves, there is a base of two boards on which wooden pallets are installed for seedlings. They can be replaced with plastic cuvettes.
How to make a collapsible rack for seedlings from plastic window sills and chrome pipes
This collapsible rack is not afraid of moisture. The design is designed for a window opening about 1.5 m high. The distance between the shelves made of plastic window sills is 45 cm.
Rabberry frame – three vertical racks of chrome pipes.
When you plant seedlings in the ground, the rack can be easily disassembled. In this form, his details will take up a little space, they can be stored on the balcony or in a small pantry.
What will be needed
- 2 plastic window sills with a width of 150 × 20 cm. These are shelves of the rack.
- 5 chrome pipes with a diameter of 25 mm. The length of three of them is equal to the height of the rack, the length of the two remaining – the distance from the floor to the stationary window sill.
- 7 chrome items for pipes with a latch.
- 5 plastic plugs for pipes.
- Polypropylene twine.
- Drill -shurupert.
- Fears drill.
- Bolts to fix pipes for pipes.
- Short screws to attach holders for pipes to the shelves -prefiners.
- 4 Self -cutting 7 cm long with dowel to fix the rack in the window opening.
- Pencil.
- Roulette.
How to do
Make side holes with a diameter of 25 mm for racks in the shelves. Retreat from the end of the window sill 15 cm and make a pencil mark on the midline of the shelf. The third stand will be located exactly in the center of the windowsill, at the intersection of its diagonals – this point also mark this point.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Then, with the help of a pepper drill, make 3 holes whose center is your marks.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Also process the second window sill.
Insert the pipes into the holes of the shelf -boat. At the desired height, put a chrome holder onto the pipe and fix it with a bolt and screwdriver.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Attach the holder to the windowsill using self -tapping screws. The picture is visible in the picture.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Plastic plugs put on open pipes ends.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
To fix the rack in the window opening, take 4 self -tapping screws about 7 cm long with dowels and polypropylene twine. Make a loop, throw it on a self -tapping screw and tighten it.
Stick a tight tape on the screw.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Open the window and glue the self -tapping screw to the outer surface of the window frame precisely opposite the right edge of the lower shelf shelf.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Pass the twine into the gap between the inner sash of the window and the frame and close the window – the twine will be inside the room and will be pressed with a sash.
Make the same mount for the right edge of the upper shelf, then for the left edge of the lower and upper shelves.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Install the rack on the windowsill. Fix each of the lateral rack pipe, firmly tightening the upper and lower loop of the twine on it. Nodes will be located right under the shelves.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Install the two remaining pipes as supports under the window sill, placing them directly under the side rack racks.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Plant the holders from below or insert the plugs so as not to scratch the floor.
How to make a collapsible rack of polypropylene pipes
This rack for seedlings is installed on the windowsill and is additionally attached to the window handles. The design is easy and mobile. PVC materials will not suffer from moisture.
What will be needed
- Polypropylene pipes with a diameter of 25 mm.
- 16 tees (this is a node to which 3 pipes join).
- 10 bages (corners for connecting pipes).
- 2 sheets made of plexiglass or shelves plastic.
- Roulette.
- Drill -shurupert.
- 2 phytolamps.
- Subtle twine for phytolamps.
- Short polypropylene tube with a diameter of 16–18 mm.
- Roulette.
- Pencil.
How to do
Measure the width and depth of the windowsill and take it from the resulting numbers 2-3 cm. This will be the size of the rack. For example, the width of the windowsill is 140 cm, the depth is 38 cm. So, the width of the rack will be 138, the depth is 36 cm.
Shot: Nikolai Kachalin / YouTube
Calculate the consumption of the main material – polypropylene pipe. You will need:
- 5 pipes that will be located horizontally (4 for the frame and 1 for fastening the phytolamps), their length is equal to the width of the window sill;
- 5 pipes -crosses, their length is equal to depth;
- 8 pipes half a half -height of the window opening.
Connect the pipes with tees and corners of the refrigerates into a single design, as shown in the picture. Please note that short side jumpers are attached slightly higher than long transverse pipes that serve as bases for shelves.
Shot: Nikolai Kachalin / YouTube
Put the shelves made of plastic, plexiglass or plywood on the base of pipes and attach with the help of self -tapping screws. In the plexiglass, you must first drill holes for screws.
Shot: Nikolai Kachalin / YouTube
Fasten several screws on the upper vertical supports. They are needed to regulate the height of phytolamps.
Slue the phytolamps on the twine.
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Shot: Nikolai Kachalin / YouTube
What are the options
This rack is also assembled from light PVC tubes and standard connecting elements. For shelves, you can take the boards. The design is installed on the windowsill. Its feature is long legs and a large distance to the lower shelf. Therefore, on the windowsill itself, you can also put seedlings or indoor flowers.
This rack is completely made of plastic. Frame – PVC pipe, shelves – plastic pallets. To make the design stable, stiffness rods from the same pipes are added. The rack is high and stands right on the floor. It can be easily moved around the apartment.
How to make a floor rack from an aluminum profile and plywood
This is a stationary rack for seedlings. Its frame is assembled from aluminum profile for drywall. Aluminum is easier to steel, so it is easy to raise the rack and transferred to another room.
Instead of aluminum, you can use PVC profile for panels, and replace the plywood with plastic. Then the rack will become even easier and more mobile.
What will be needed
- Aluminum profile for drywall.
- Sheets of plywood or plastic for shelves.
- Self -tapping screws.
- Drill -shurupert.
- Metal cutting nozzle (stainless steel disk) or a grinder.
- Roulette.
- A construction square with a right angle (or other measuring tool, which can accurately measure the angle 90).
- Subtle marker for marking.
How to do
Make a rack and fasteners for shelves from the profile of the rack. To do this, measure 4 stripes equal to the height of the rack. Here – 2 m.
Determine the number of shelves and their size.
For the base of each shelf, cut 2 profile strips equal to the length, and 2 – equal to the width of the shelf. Here – 3 sets for shelves with dimensions of 100 × 50 cm.
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
Process the ends of the martens of a length of 50 cm. According to the ribs of the P -shaped profile, make cuts slightly less than the base of the profile.
It is important to make all incisions of the same length so that there are no distortions when assembling the structure.
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
Bend the resulting side “tails” outward and round the sharp corners.
10
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
As a result, two “stairs” with crossbars 100 cm long will get.
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
Combine both frames –
How to make a rack for seedlings on a windowsill of wooden timber and boards
This rack will fit on a wide windowsill, and its dimensions will be 2-3 cm less than the parameters of the window niche. For example, on a window sill with dimensions of 105 × 30 cm, a rack with a base of 100 × 27 cm easily fits easily. The height of the structure is limited to the size of the window opening. Our rack will have three shelves, the total height of the structure is 95 cm.
What will be needed
- 10 boards with dimensions 95 cm × 10-14 cm × 2 cm.
- 6 wooden bars with a section of 2.7 × 2.7 cm and 27 cm long.
- 48 wood screws 3.5 × 41 mm.
- Drill -shurupert.
- A grinding nozzle for a drill (if old boards are used that need grinding).
- Roulette.
- Pencil.
- Water -repellent primer and brush.
- Thin twine 80 cm long to hang a phytolamp.
- Insulating tape.
- 2 fixers with a cord limiter (you can use locks from an old sports jacket);
- Phytolamp.
How to do
Prepare all the necessary tools and materials to work. Cut the boards and bars of the desired length. Pierce the old boards using a special drill nozzle.
If you take new boards and bars, the grinding stage can be missed.
Shot: Alyonin Sad / YouTube
Take two boards and three bars – this is the side wall of the future rack.
Measure with a tape measure on both boards 5 cm from the edge – this is the height of the legs of the rack. At these marks, draw noticeable lines with a pencil.
Put the first block across the boards exactly on these lines. Make the same pencil marks at a distance of 50 cm and 90 cm and put bars on them.
Shot: Alyonin Sad / YouTube
The width of the wall is determined by the length of the bar, the boards are aligned along its edge. A gap may remain between the boards – it will not affect the strength of the structure.
Take a drill with a diameter of 15 mm. Insert it into the drill so that the working length of the drill is 35 mm or just make a marker at a drill at a distance of 35 mm from the tip – this is the depth of the future hole.
Press the bar tightly and drill two holes at a distance of about 1 cm from the edge of each board. Screw screws into them using a screwdriver.
Shot: Alyonin Sad / YouTube
Also make the second wall.
To collect a rack, fix the walls in an upright position so that the bars are inside the future structure – shelves will be held on them.
Put two boards on the lower pair of bars and align their edges along the width of the bars. Make two through holes in the corners of each board and fix the shelf with self -tapping screws.
Shot: Alyonin Sad / YouTube
Also make the middle and upper shelves.
Cover the rack with a primer and wait until the structure dries. Use a water -repellent primer – it will protect the wood from moisture when you water the seedlings.
Shot: Alyonin Sad / YouTube
Make a fixture for phytolamps. To do this, cut the twine in half. Tighten the loop so that the twine covers the middle bar, and the ends of the rope are above it.
Tie the ends with a knot, leaving about 2 cm free, and fix the “tail” with electrical tape.
10
Shot: Denis Gareev / YouTube
Fasten all other corners. Make four such racks.
Cut the shelf of the desired width from the pallet.
Shot: Denis Gareev / YouTube
Remove the lower supporting part from the pallets, then remove the nails sticking out of the boards.
10
Shot: Denis Gareev / YouTube
Attach all your shelves to the same rack.
Also attach the other three racks to the resulting design.
Shot: Denis Gareev / YouTube
The rack is ready. Now it can be covered with a water -repellent primer, then painted and hung with the shelves with a phytolamp.
What are the options
This rack can be made quickly, and it is inexpensive, especially if you have old pallets in your garage. True, it is heavy and will not fit into the interior of the apartment. But it can be used in the country.
But this small rack for seedlings fits on the windowsill. Instead of shelves, there is a base of two boards on which wooden pallets are installed for seedlings. They can be replaced with plastic cuvettes.
How to make a collapsible rack for seedlings from plastic window sills and chrome pipes
This collapsible rack is not afraid of moisture. The design is designed for a window opening about 1.5 m high. The distance between the shelves made of plastic window sills is 45 cm.
Rabberry frame – three vertical racks of chrome pipes.
When you plant seedlings in the ground, the rack can be easily disassembled. In this form, his details will take up a little space, they can be stored on the balcony or in a small pantry.
What will be needed
- 2 plastic window sills with a width of 150 × 20 cm. These are shelves of the rack.
- 5 chrome pipes with a diameter of 25 mm. The length of three of them is equal to the height of the rack, the length of the two remaining – the distance from the floor to the stationary window sill.
- 7 chrome items for pipes with a latch.
- 5 plastic plugs for pipes.
- Polypropylene twine.
- Drill -shurupert.
- Fears drill.
- Bolts to fix pipes for pipes.
- Short screws to attach holders for pipes to the shelves -prefiners.
- 4 Self -cutting 7 cm long with dowel to fix the rack in the window opening.
- Pencil.
- Roulette.
How to do
Make side holes with a diameter of 25 mm for racks in the shelves. Retreat from the end of the window sill 15 cm and make a pencil mark on the midline of the shelf. The third stand will be located exactly in the center of the windowsill, at the intersection of its diagonals – this point also mark this point.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Then, with the help of a pepper drill, make 3 holes whose center is your marks.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Also process the second window sill.
Insert the pipes into the holes of the shelf -boat. At the desired height, put a chrome holder onto the pipe and fix it with a bolt and screwdriver.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Attach the holder to the windowsill using self -tapping screws. The picture is visible in the picture.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Plastic plugs put on open pipes ends.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
To fix the rack in the window opening, take 4 self -tapping screws about 7 cm long with dowels and polypropylene twine. Make a loop, throw it on a self -tapping screw and tighten it.
Stick a tight tape on the screw.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Open the window and glue the self -tapping screw to the outer surface of the window frame precisely opposite the right edge of the lower shelf shelf.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Pass the twine into the gap between the inner sash of the window and the frame and close the window – the twine will be inside the room and will be pressed with a sash.
Make the same mount for the right edge of the upper shelf, then for the left edge of the lower and upper shelves.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Install the rack on the windowsill. Fix each of the lateral rack pipe, firmly tightening the upper and lower loop of the twine on it. Nodes will be located right under the shelves.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Install the two remaining pipes as supports under the window sill, placing them directly under the side rack racks.
Short: And you knew? / YouTube
Plant the holders from below or insert the plugs so as not to scratch the floor.
How to make a collapsible rack of polypropylene pipes
This rack for seedlings is installed on the windowsill and is additionally attached to the window handles. The design is easy and mobile. PVC materials will not suffer from moisture.
What will be needed
- Polypropylene pipes with a diameter of 25 mm.
- 16 tees (this is a node to which 3 pipes join).
- 10 bages (corners for connecting pipes).
- 2 sheets made of plexiglass or shelves plastic.
- Roulette.
- Drill -shurupert.
- 2 phytolamps.
- Subtle twine for phytolamps.
- Short polypropylene tube with a diameter of 16–18 mm.
- Roulette.
- Pencil.
How to do
Measure the width and depth of the windowsill and take it from the resulting numbers 2-3 cm. This will be the size of the rack. For example, the width of the windowsill is 140 cm, the depth is 38 cm. So, the width of the rack will be 138, the depth is 36 cm.
Shot: Nikolai Kachalin / YouTube
Calculate the consumption of the main material – polypropylene pipe. You will need:
- 5 pipes that will be located horizontally (4 for the frame and 1 for fastening the phytolamps), their length is equal to the width of the window sill;
- 5 pipes -crosses, their length is equal to depth;
- 8 pipes half a half -height of the window opening.
Connect the pipes with tees and corners of the refrigerates into a single design, as shown in the picture. Please note that short side jumpers are attached slightly higher than long transverse pipes that serve as bases for shelves.
Shot: Nikolai Kachalin / YouTube
Put the shelves made of plastic, plexiglass or plywood on the base of pipes and attach with the help of self -tapping screws. In the plexiglass, you must first drill holes for screws.
Shot: Nikolai Kachalin / YouTube
Fasten several screws on the upper vertical supports. They are needed to regulate the height of phytolamps.
Slue the phytolamps on the twine.
10
Shot: Nikolai Kachalin / YouTube
What are the options
This rack is also assembled from light PVC tubes and standard connecting elements. For shelves, you can take the boards. The design is installed on the windowsill. Its feature is long legs and a large distance to the lower shelf. Therefore, on the windowsill itself, you can also put seedlings or indoor flowers.
This rack is completely made of plastic. Frame – PVC pipe, shelves – plastic pallets. To make the design stable, stiffness rods from the same pipes are added. The rack is high and stands right on the floor. It can be easily moved around the apartment.
How to make a floor rack from an aluminum profile and plywood
This is a stationary rack for seedlings. Its frame is assembled from aluminum profile for drywall. Aluminum is easier to steel, so it is easy to raise the rack and transferred to another room.
Instead of aluminum, you can use PVC profile for panels, and replace the plywood with plastic. Then the rack will become even easier and more mobile.
What will be needed
- Aluminum profile for drywall.
- Sheets of plywood or plastic for shelves.
- Self -tapping screws.
- Drill -shurupert.
- Metal cutting nozzle (stainless steel disk) or a grinder.
- Roulette.
- A construction square with a right angle (or other measuring tool, which can accurately measure the angle 90).
- Subtle marker for marking.
How to do
Make a rack and fasteners for shelves from the profile of the rack. To do this, measure 4 stripes equal to the height of the rack. Here – 2 m.
Determine the number of shelves and their size.
For the base of each shelf, cut 2 profile strips equal to the length, and 2 – equal to the width of the shelf. Here – 3 sets for shelves with dimensions of 100 × 50 cm.
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
Process the ends of the martens of a length of 50 cm. According to the ribs of the P -shaped profile, make cuts slightly less than the base of the profile.
It is important to make all incisions of the same length so that there are no distortions when assembling the structure.
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
Bend the resulting side “tails” outward and round the sharp corners.
10
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
As a result, two “stairs” with crossbars 100 cm long will get.
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
Connect both frames – add short crossbars.
Fix with two screws the base of each crossbar and with one self -tapping screw each side “tail”.
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
Take plywood or shelves plastic. If necessary, cut the excess to get rectangles in size 100 × 50 cm.
In the corners of each shelf, cut two grooves each to combine them with the legs of the P -shaped profile.
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
Put the shelves on the base, carefully inserting the profile into the grooves. The shelves can not be fixed – it will be easier to remove them to wash or paint.
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
To make the design more stable, on the one hand you can add stiffness ribs to the corners.
Frame: to the village! / YouTube
What are the options
Try to make a rack for seedlings from thin timber and metal rods. The beam is on the basis for shelves, and carrioned racks are obtained from the rods. The design consists of three shelves and is installed on the windowsill. For shelves, you can use any material – plastic, plywood, boards.