A planter box for housing plantings, comprising:
- a pallet base defined by a front edge, back edge, and two side edges;
- the pallet base comprising:
- four or more tenon joint parts that extend horizontally out from the two side edges of the pallet base;
- a first shallow border groove is disposed along the front edge of the pallet base and a second shallow border groove is disposed along the back edge of the pallet base;
- a first leg and a second leg, the first leg extends downwardly from and along the front edge of the pallet base, the second leg extends downwardly from and along the back edge of the pallet base, wherein the first leg and the second leg are parallel to one another;
- a first opening extending through the first leg in a direction from the front edge of the pallet base toward the back edge of the pallet base;
- a second opening extending through the second leg in a direction from the back edge of the pallet base toward the front edge of the pallet base;
- wherein the first and second openings provide two way entries for a lifting device to be inserted through the first and second openings;
- wherein the first leg is spaced apart from the second leg to form a third opening in a bottom portion of the pallet base, the third opening of the pallet base is a through opening extending from a first side edge to a second side edge of the two side edges of the pallet base;
- a front panel comprising one or more tenon joint part, wherein the front panel is received in the first shallow border groove;
- a rear panel comprising one or more tenon joint part, wherein the rear panel is received in the second shallow border groove;
- two side panels, each of the side panels includes four or more grooves, in which at least two of the grooves are horizontal grooves extending along and adjacent to a bottom edge of the side panel for receiving at least two of the four or more tenon joint parts of the pallet base to form tongue and groove joints, at least one of the grooves is a vertical groove extending along and adjacent to one edge of the side panel for receiving one of the one or more tenon joint part of the front panel to form at least one tongue and groove joint, and at least another one of the grooves is a vertical groove extending along and adjacent to another edge of the side panel for receiving one of the one or more tenon joint part of the rear panel to form at least one tongue and groove joint;
- wherein the front panel and the rear panel are configured to be positioned directly on top of the pallet base, the two side panels are configured to have all of bottom surfaces thereof raised above a ground surface;
- wherein each of the tongue and groove joints includes a locking mechanism, each of the locking mechanisms includes a long threaded winged bolt and a wing;
- wherein the long threaded winged bolt of each of the locking mechanisms is inserted through one of the grooves of the side panel and engaged into a respective one of the tenon joint parts of the front panel, the rear panel, and the pallet base;
- wherein the wing of each of the locking mechanisms engageably attach the respective one of the tenon joint parts in the one of the grooves of the side panel, thereby connecting the pallet base, the front panel, the rear panel and the side panels together;
- a PVC frame structure including a plurality of PVC pipes;
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- a plurality of attachment blocks are formed on each corner of the front panel and the rear panel, respectively;
- wherein the PVC pipes are inserted through the attachment blocks to be attached to the pallet base;
- and one or more carriage tray arranged on the PVC frame structure.