Milk Jug Hot Caps
By Catherine Haug, Feb 3, 2018; image right, from Gardening Hacks article (1)
I happened upon an interesting blog article: 19 Gardening Hacks to Become a Pro Gardener (1). Several of the hacks involve repurposing household items that would otherwise be trash/compost. Here’s a list of the 19; check out the article for more detail on each.
The list:
- How to make homemade seed tape
- Milk Jug Hot Caps (repurposing plastic milk jugs)
- Repellant plants (to repel insects)
- Citrus rind planters (repurposing)
- Eggshell planters (repurposing, composting)
- Tarp travois (this is one I’ve used over the years to drag heavy items like bags of fertilizer to my garden)
- Buried watering bottle (repurposing plastic milk jugs)
- Melon hammocks to support heavy melons
- Easy cleaning for tools
- Coffee filter drainage covers (in planting pots)
- Newspaper mulch (repurposing, composting)
- Strawberries from milk crates (repurposing)
- Cinderblock raised bed
- Durable plant markers (repurposing)
- Sketch a garden plot
- Roses from cuttings
- Tomato plants from slices
- Tool handle measuring stick
- Deadheading
- 19 hacks article: electrosawhq.com/gardening-hacks
Tags: gardening, repurposing