"The Garden"Big Girl Toys

Flowers  &  Garden

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 To make a hanging garden, use containers such as two-liter plastic soda-pop bottles, two- to five-gallon plastic buckets with lids or hanging coco baskets. If you're using the pop bottle, cut the bottom of the bottle with a craft knife. Place a small plant into the bottle (roots up, plant down) and gently push the plant through the small opening. Take the bottom half of the bottle that you cut off and cut holes into the bottom of it. Fill the bottle with soil, and place the bottom section that you cut off back on but upside down. Secure it with duct tape. Punch four holes into the bottle, and use rope to hang. If you're using a bucket, drill 1/2-inch to 2-inch holes (using a hole saw) in the bottom center of the bucket. Place newspaper in the bottom of the bucket to help secure your plant roots and so soil doesn't fall out when you hang it. Cut a slit into the newspaper, push your plant through the newspaper slit and bucket hole, and fill with soil. Drill a hole into the lid, too. This is how the plant will get water. This is heavier than a two-liter bottle, so hanging it from a clothesline pole is ideal. Some people put newspaper on the top under the lid and then invert the bucket and plant their plant. They then let it grow for a bit (right side up) to be sure the plant establishes roots. If you're using a coco basket, simply cut a slit into the bottom of the basket, and, like the other two methods, push your plant through the bottom and fill the container with soil.