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