How to Recycle bottle water containers in to your garden

We drink bottle water daily discarding the empty container in the trash. To help keep the bottle containers out of the landfill. Put your bottle water container to good use. Recycle your empty bottle into your garden.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• knife
• Empty plastic bottle container
• Rocks
• plant
• soil

1. 

   Gather several empty water bottles. Remove the bottle label. Cut the bottom out of the containers. Punch small whole near the mouth of the container. Leave the bottle cap in place.

2. 

   In the empty water bottles place a few small rocks for drainage.
   Add at least a cup of soil lightly packed. Add seeds or plant and cover with more soil. Water to test drainage before planting into the garden dirt.

3. 

   Dig a row in the garden placing the bottles a foot apart. Place the bottle container half in the dirt. A large container pot can be use to hold the bottle containers. Fill a large container with sand or soil and place the ready fill bottle containers in the sand or soil. Using the same technique you can use large soda bottle container as a hanging planters. Cut holes in the container to support the strings. Three pieces of strings are needed. Add strong cording strings and a hook for hanging.

Tips & Warnings

• give as gifts -easy transfer in to other garden.
• Kid friendly project

[respectfully]

on 9/18/2009 this is a creat idea 5* R

[karileighk]

on 7/3/2009 Doing this really does help in a lot of ways!

[kaytay]

on 5/2/2009 thanks for the info on how to recycle water bottles and use them in the garden

[sonni57]

on 5/1/2009 Thanks for the good idea for recycling plastic water bottles.