Unusual Container Gardening

I can't tell you how much I love gardening in spring.
One thing I enjoy, is to use interesting and unusual containers to garden in.
Ever tried planting flowers in a pair of old working boots? It's a great conversational piece.

My youngest and I picked up this wicker basket for a song. No one wanted it because it is less than perfect, but we had nefarious plans for it.



We lined the basket with landscaping fabric. Really, it's just black plastic with some holes poked in it, but since we had a stuff handy, that's what we used. Otherwise, we would have happily used garbage bags.
We filled the basket halfway with some soil and wet that soil:

We added some plants:
We filled up the planter with more soil and added water!

Here's our planter full of pansies. The flowers look a little worse for wear from all that manhandling, but they will perk up soon enough!