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Reusing Plastic Soda Bottles in Your Garden
07/30/2010 - 5:00am

“Less than 1 percent of all plastics is recycled. Therefore, almost all plastics are incinerated or end up in a landfill.” Source: Earth911.com


Image courtesy of Urban Organic Gardener

Do your part and help to keep plastic soda bottles from being incinerated or from the landfill. You can check out one of these reuses or reuse them in your garden.

If you don't drink soda, you can still easily find and save soda bottles nearly anywhere. During Keep America Beautiful’s 2009 Great American Cleanup, volunteers recovered and recycled 243,000,000 PET (plastic) bottles that littered highways, waterways and parks.

So there is no shortage of plastic bottles out there. You can use some homemade eco-friendly soap to rinse them out and reuse them.

This list includes ways that I've used them in my garden and other creative ones from across the web. Whether you have a backyard or a windowsill, you can utilize one of these low-cost ideas in your garden today.

  1. Drip irrigation system
  2. Kitchen carrot garden
  3. Hanging soda bottle planter
  4. Mini greenhouse
  5. Shovel
  6. Make a garden trellis
  7. Upside down tomato planter
  8. Self-watering container
  9. Seed starter
  10. Protect your plants from cold
  11. Herb garden on shipping pallet


How else can you reuse soda bottles in your garden?
33 Things You Can Reuse As Garden Planters
07/23/2010 - 2:33pm

By reusing one of these items to garden, you’ll be starting a new life for a plant and giving a second life to another.

Photo Credit: Shawna Coronado of The Casual Gardener

You don’t need to buy fancy containers or other items, you likely have one or more of these items lying around that can be used.

Here’s a list of things that can be reused as garden planters.

Furniture
If you have some old furniture lying around in the basement or garage, dust it off and get to planting in it.

  1. Bed frame
  2. Dresser drawers
  3. Desk
  4. Wicker loveseat
  5. Wooden chair

Kids
Much like their clothing, your kids have likely outgrown their toys. That doesn’t mean that you have to get rid of them, repurpose them in your garden.

  1. Capri Sun pouch
  2. Kickball
  3. Kids dump truck
  4. Red wagon
  5. Stroller
  6. Toy Box


Photo Credit: Mike Lieberman of Urban Organic Gardener

Kitchen
Here are some items that can be found in your kitchen that can also be used as garden planters.

  1. Bread pan
  2. Coconut shell
  3. Coffee bag
  4. Coffee can
  5. Colander
  6. Cooler
  7. Reusable shopping bag
  8. Soda bottle
  9. Tea cups

Not For Food
I’m all for growing your own food, but you might not want to plant your edibles in any of these.

  1. Bathtub
  2. Boots
  3. Sewer
  4. Tires
  5. Toilet bowl


Photo Credit: AndrewOdom on Flickr

This is Why You’ve Been Saving These
Some of us are just packrats and hold onto things just in case you ever need them again. Now you have a use for some of those things.

  1. Bicyle or Tricycle
  2. Bird Bath
  3. Birdcage
  4. Gutters
  5. Mailbox
  6. Studebaker pickup
  7. Wheelbarrow
  8. Whiskey barrel

What are some other unusual things that can be used as garden planters?

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