I love to keep a lot of plants in my house. But problem is I don’t have floor space no real mud all our land is filled with concrete floors so I make use of all waste containers as planters. The best way to recycle or reuse broken or old containers is using them as planters. Mostly I reuse plastic pet bottles for planters. Long ago I made a reverse hanging planter out of a plastic bottle. Lets see how I made it. Sorry I didn’t take step by step photos since I didn’t think I will write a post on it, but anyway I will try my best to make you understand through my explanation.
Supplies you will need :
- Plastic pet bottles (preferably 2 ltrs )
- Scissors
- Craft Knife
- Plastic grocery Bag
- A small plant
- Wire/Thick String for hanging
- Soil/Dirt
My Method :
- Take any big Plastic PET bottle of any size your wish mine is a 2 ltr bottle
- Cut of the bottom of the bottle
- Punch 3 holes near the cut edges
- Connect three strings through these holes, they are for hanging the planter
- Remove the cap
- Take a small sapling which is grown a little more than 5 inch . Pull it out of soil
- Insert the root of the plant through the cap of the bottle
- Wrap the root of the plant with plastic cover, the cover is protection for soil leakage through the opening
- Fill dirt inside the bottle and hang it with the Strings
- Thats it pretty reverse hanging planter ready. No need of extra space or money for your green thumb 🙂
- But after few days the plants bend and grow upwards only that’s the beauty of nature 🙂
Happy crafting