How to Make the Best Upside-Down Planter for All Vegetables
An upside-down planter is a space-saving gardening container that grows vegetables roots-up; the foliage of the plant hangs down toward the ground. Upside-down planters are popularly used to grow tomato plants, but you can make them at home for use with almost any vegetable. Making the planter from a 2-liter bottle or a gallon milk jug will equip you with a portable, easy-to-maintain planter that you can hang almost anywhere and plant almost anything into. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- 2-liter bottle or 1-gallon milk jug
- Utility knife
- Duct tape
- Hole punch
- String
- Newspaper
- Potting soil
- S-hook
- Water
Instructions
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Remove the labels from your plastic bottle or milk jug and rinse it out completely.
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Cut the bottom 2 inches off of the container with a utility knife.
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Position the plastic container upside down so that the bottomless portion faces upward.
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Wrap the cut edge of the container with a strip of duct tape to strengthen it.
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Use a hole punch to punch four holes 1 inch into the duct-taped edge; punch one hole on each side of the container.
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Cut four pieces of string to an equal length of at least 1 foot.
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Insert the loose end of one string through one of the punched holes in the container and tie a knot to secure it. Repeat with the other three pieces of string and the other three holes.
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Roll a sheet of newspaper into a cone and insert it into the bottomless portion of the container, allowing the point of the cone to emerge from the spout of the container.
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Guide the roots of the vegetable plant up through the spout of the container. The point of the newspaper cone should cover the base of the roots of your plant.
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Fill the container with potting soil all the way to the top of the duct-taped edge.
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Tie the loose ends of the four strings to the bottom portion of the s-hook, then hang the s-hook in a sunny spot.
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Water the soil in the container until it settles.
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