What great ideas! Thanks so much for sharing these wonderful tips for recycling plastic bottles/jugs!!!

You are most welcome .. . I thought some of them were kinda neat. Have others that have nothing to do with plants

Maybe I will put them in a blog.

Thanks to Sharon for editing.

Great ideas Marilyn!! Thanks!

Best use is wintersowing seeds

They're also good for propagating cuttings.

Karen

I have used them for winter sowing seeds.
Love the idea of using for solar heat with cloth over them and plants.

valleylynn said:I have used them for winter sowing seeds.
Love the idea of using for solar heat with cloth over them and plants.

Meeeeee too!

Will be trying that for sure. We have bright sun shine mid winter even when very cold. So hope this does the job

of keeping some of my more tender plants happy.

Great ideas but you forgot to warn all us hoarders!

Hoarding in this case is permitted. Of course when they over top you storage space .. and the hallways, and the bathroom/s.

Then it is time to offer them as a monthly prize on ATP.

yesj. Hoarding can be a problem. 2 l plastic drink bottles. Make an osmosis weed killer container. Cut around the bottle about 8 inches from the bottom, where it starts to taper into the funnel--but leave about 3/4 inch for a hinge. Put the cap on the bottle. Drill a hole for hanging the bottle with a hot ice pick about 1 inch below the cutting line. Put a plastic S hook In the hole and orient the hook to hang over a branch. Squash the ends of weedy vines such as kudzu, trumpet creeper, autumn clematis, or Asian wisteria. Pour glyphsate or other weed killer at regular dilution into the body of the bottle. Insert the vines and hinge over the cover to keep birds, cats, etc. from drinking the toxic substance.This method will minimize environmental contamination when using toxic weed killers.

Winter sowing containers can also be made out of hinged plastic bottles.

Let me understand. You put the vines into the bottle, so they will suck up the weed killer??? I suppose just letting it drip into the weeds could poison the wildlife?

Ingenious.

Thanks,

CDsSister said:

Let me understand. You put the vines into the bottle, so they will suck up the weed killer??? I suppose just letting it drip into the weeds could poison the wildlife?

Ingenious.

Thanks,

You guys are hilarious! I also love those soda bottles!