Recycled Gardening

Re-use and Reduce.. ;)

 This is last Winter's post..anyway thought it might be worthy of a peat an repeat..=))

Recycled Gardening

 I am really taking such an interest in recycling in the sense of bringing new life to the once discarded..especially in the gardening area..a real passion of mine..I just love waking in the morn and checking the new lil seedlings breaking free of the soil and opening in the sunlight..I always start gardening indoors as I get too antsy to wait for spring to start playing in the dirt..=))

                                               Some containers I am currently re-using..

                                 Beer  and Wine bottle make nice inverted self-watering containers.

 

 

                            And I'm enjoying this Sour Sop baby all happy in a window sill
                                         with a plastic inverted self- watering container.

 

              Jello containers and disposable cups make nice mini greenhouses, and seedling starters..

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                            

                                         Baby Tarragon sprouts in eggshells, the sprouts
                                                 thrive from the nutrients in the shells.

              Inverted plastic containers make great self-watering for plants such as this happy Roma Tomato plant from a discarded but heavily washed ;) peanut butter jar. I simply use a hot knife to poke a hole in the lid big enough for a rolled paper towel sheet and a few air holes in the soil section..add water and there ya go..

                         You can do the same with virtually any discarded plastic container..

                                                                    Even milk jugs..
                                                                             

                                                When I first set mine up, the soil is dry so
                                           I like to have a good amount of water underneath.

           Discarded boxes work well too as once the plant is ready, you can just dig your hole and      place the whole thing..the paper breaks down in the soil, so no trauma in uprooting and transplanting..

 Discarded egg shells and some deli trays work great for mini green houses for these seedlings..

                                 and wine corks are really becoming useful second time around
                                in so many ways..but I do like this one.. I glued some corks to an
                                                          unused plastic picture frame.

 

 

                  You can regrow scraps such as lettuce, cabbage, carrot tops..etc..the list goes on..

                                    

             Like this sweet potato I'm rooting..we all know what pretty leaves and vines those make.. =)

                                                                

                                                                 and this old Irish  potato..

                                        

                                       or this discarded mango pit.. it's sprouting right well.

                                              

  Also rooting pineapple tops make gorgeous tropical plants, and I even had one produce a pineapple..yep yep..=)

                   A couple of years after rooting this, I got this..big surprise for me..

 

          I used old clothesline, and a little glue on a discarded coffee can..made an attractive planter. 

 

 

  Some canning jars ,a board, straps.. gravel and soil.. makes a very nice herb window garden.

                                                                          and now..

 

                                      I used a plastic container, and some hemp twine, moss,
                                        and gravel for a terrarium with air plants..love this..