| Having your very own home garden does not | | | | small scoop, the plastic milk jug may be |
| only translate to sweating under the intense | | | | employed as its bigger version. This jug has |
| heat of the sun toiling, weeding and growing | | | | a lot of flexible uses for your home garden. |
| flowers and plants but would also mean | | | | Mixing and sprinkling liquid fertilizer to |
| spending your hard earned cash on home garden | | | | your home grown plants is easy and |
| tools that may not at all come that cheap. | | | | trouble-free with the use of a milk jug. |
| But then again, there is a way around these | | | | Simply put the fertilizer ingredients in, |
| costs. There always is, if you are | | | | shake to blend, poke some holes on the top |
| imaginative and innovative enough. You may | | | | and you are set to shower your plants with |
| not even have to look and search that far. | | | | nutrients. If frosty and chilly seasons have |
| Your kitchen or perhaps your waste basket may | | | | caused you to lose your baby seedlings and |
| hold the very solution to your garden tools | | | | underdeveloped plants, the plastic milk jug |
| expense predicament. No need to mop and think | | | | may pose to be a solution to your problem. By |
| long and hard on how. Here are a few creative | | | | covering your plants with the jug (make sure |
| tips. | | | | to remove the bottom of course) heat is |
| | | | stored and retained for the plants. What is |
| Yogurt containers usually go straight to the | | | | more, you have the option to adjust the |
| trash as soon as we scoop out that last spoon | | | | warmth of your plastic mini conservatory by |
| of yummy yogurt. But hold up, there might be | | | | opening or closing the cap. |
| more to these plastic tubs than meets the | | | | |
| eye. These yogurt containers can be great | | | | If you think your egg cartons can offer no |
| sanctuaries for your seedlings protecting | | | | help in your home garden, think again! These |
| them from those nosy good for nothing | | | | containers are known to be perfect for |
| night-crawling cutworms. Working as a shield, | | | | growing seedlings. Using the Styrofoam ones |
| sink these tubs into your soil enclosing the | | | | are more preferred and it is important that |
| seedlings in. You can strip off the yogurt | | | | you wash and clean them well before use so |
| shield as soon as the seeds are able to grow | | | | that you can prevent any bacterial |
| sturdy stems. | | | | contamination. Punch a hole on the base of |
| | | | each cell to allow for drainage. |
| These small plastic pots can also be used as | | | | |
| cute flower pots. Just make sure to punch in | | | | It is essential that your home garden plants |
| a few holes in them to allow the soil to | | | | get at least an inch of water in a week. |
| breathe and also to release excess water. | | | | While figuring the volume of water your |
| Moreover, if you are looking for something to | | | | plants get may seem like a difficult |
| help you scoop up your soil or fertilizers, | | | | endeavor, it is actually not. You may use |
| these yogurt containers may be your best bet. | | | | those straight-sided tuna cans in collecting |
| | | | or measuring if your home garden is getting |
| If the yogurt container can make do as a | | | | enough rain or sprinkler water. |