Soda Bottle Planters

Soda has more uses than making college cocktails and helping with 4 am finals cramming, or at least its container does. Some of my best plants were grown in 2 or 3 liter soda bottles.

Supplies:

• (1) 2 or 3 liter soda bottle, emptied and cleaned
• Gravel
• Soil
• Slow-release fertilizer
• Mulch (if available)
• Scissors
• String/twine
• Clean fingers
• A plant

Step 1: Acquire and empty soda bottle. Rinse it out well to get all the sugar out. Remove the label if you want.

Step 2: Cut holes in the bottom of the bottle for drainage.

Step 3: Cut the top off where the curve straightens out.

Step 4: Have a beer break.

Step 5: Put about a 1/2”-1” of gravel in the bottom.

Aaaahhh...that tastes good...

Step 6: Fill with dirt so that the top of your sprout container is level with the top of the bottle.

Step 7: Plant your sprout.

Step 8: Add some plant food.

Step 9: Fill rest of way with mulch (if you have some).

Step 10: Toast your new plant.

Share a pint.

Enjoy your new plant!

Give it some new friends to hang out with.

You can poke holes about an inch below the top and thread twine through to make a hanging plant.

This is a great project to do with kids, too.

You can make the bottles more artsy by painting them.

Eat, drink, be merry, and get dirty!
Margie