Earlier this summer, Mr. W and I used some wood leftover from another project to make some planting boxes. I didn't like the way the bare wood looked, so for the first box, I brushed on some light walnut stain. It's not bad, but it's not the look I was hoping for. I wanted something that had the appearance of age. Like it had been sitting around a potting shed for the last 50 years. This is my salad box stained with light walnut. Those are little lettuce seedlings. I played around with some other colors of stain we had in the garage. I made swatches on a piece of scrap wood, but none of them were giving me the aged look, so I searched the internet for some ideas. Lots of websites had recipes for mixing different colors of stain to achieve an old, weathered look, but I didn't want to buy multiple cans of stain for just a few small projects. The technique that appealed most to me was using vinegar. It's super simple and you...