Plastic bottles and soda bottles accumulate quickly in many homes however they are an excellent resource for growing vegetables and in particular small-space gardens. And no these aren’t simply 7 different shaped pots, these 7 hacks range from seedling guards to slug traps and seed storage to water reservoirs. Use these hacks to make your gardening more successful and fun and each take you less than a minute to make. I hope you enjoy this video and please share it to anyone you might know who’ll find it useful 🙂
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Nice hacks. Here's two more: I put two bottoms together to make a high humidity pot for propagating cuttings. Also I cut the top off part off, reverse it and stick it in the bottom half to create a funnel trap. Baited with banana it works great for fruit flies.?
thanks fun ideas. If you can turn your book shelves upside down to remove the bows.:-)?
mother earth will bless you?
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Great and very useful gardening hacks Huw.?
thank you for your inspiration.?
some great ideas there mate, nice one?
Cool
tq for sharing your ideas on how to reuse plastic
Awesome!! Im gonna try some to these?
Wonderful ideas for the simple bottle! That's sorted out jobs to do on a cold winters night!???
Love your tips and tutorials 🙂 !!?
Great video!! Definitely going to use all these tips!! Our family sometimes uses a lot of water bottles and I recycle all, but turning it into a mini greenhouse is genious!! ??
Using plastics – you definitely poisoning the soil & poisoning your tree! no offense , just a concern bro !?
Love these cool gardening hacks?
Very good tutorial with the plastic bottles!!! Thanks for the great ideas?
You ae my new friend!! Loved this video so very much, thank you! I did use several bottles to protect my lilac cuttings and an experiment with a single rose stem it sprouted in water and I cut it in half and put them in dirt with bottles to protect them. I did know about the bottles to use as a mini green house but the other hacks you shared were great. New subsciber:)?
Hi, in your FL climate, how often do you typically have to add water to these? Thanks for posting this, btw.?
FYI Check out the alternative type of 'wicking barrel etc. at RobBobs Backyard Farming. on his You Tube channel.?
What a great idea and an even better system. Might suggest light straw mulch rather than the vis-screen whatever color you might think. Living in Townsville North Queensland Australia, we average temperatures of low to mid 80 during the winter so keeping plants cool is a skill we all need to learn mighty fast. A bale of straw or hay (straw has seed in it sometimes) is cheap and much cheaper than any of the ground cover manufactures screening materials available. Hope these boxes worked well for you.?
Thanks for posting. Two questions: 1) why isn't the lid that sets inside, above the reservoir, buckling and breaking under the pressure? 2) how much soil gets down into the reservoir through all the holes in that lid above the reservoir? :)?
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Cool, but I just don't get these "false bottom" designs.
My understanding of wicking beds (Earthboxes work on the same principle) is that there should be a porous barrier between the soil and the reservoir. Without that barrier, the soil must have filled the reservoir in your box. That drastically reduces the volume of water in the reservoir.
Also, does the bottom feeding planting basket (at 2:30) support the middle of the platform / "false bottom" supporting the weight of the moist soil, and preventing the false bottom from buckling and breaking?
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Thanks for your video, I made two this year and they turned out really well for peppers and tomatoes. I'm going to build 10 more for next year.?
i have two pots not earth boxes. On one of them, i"ve planted a hibiscus which is still small, four cucumbers which just germinated a week ago, and some peppers (california wonder) which have just germinated a few days ago. In the other pot, i planted a bean plant , idon"t know which type and it has just started flowering. My family has planned a trip which will be very far for a week and i need to make these pots self watering systems. PLEEEEEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!?
are you concerned that the containers are not food grade??
What's the purpose of the big cup in the middle with the circle cut for it? ?
why do you put the PVC pipe for?
Can you do a review on your puzzle ring? +CrashbladeKnives
I see the video was made 2013, so how did it all turn out??
Just watched your video, great idea but I was wondering if you cover the soil with bark mulch directly or over the white/black cover would it keep the soil cooler? just a thought, let me know what you think. Thanks!?
what do you use for the fertilizer strip?
Thanks, Crash !
Great vid.
The platforms made it easier to build the frames, and I'm old – don't have to bend over as far.
What is the purpose of elevating your grow boxes on the wooden platforms??
What is the contents of the fertilizer strip??