Recycling Plastic Bottles into Mini Greenhouses and Planting Pots
Recycling Plastic Bottles into Mini Greenhouses for Cuttings
It is very simple to recycle a water, juice or soda bottle into a mini greenhouse. These mini greenhouses can be used to start cuttings, protect an ailing plant, or to start seeds. African violet growers love using small water bottles as mini greenhouses to start leaf cuttings.
First, you will have to find a bottle that fits over the container you want to enclose in a greenhouse environment.
Cut the bottom off of the bottle with sharp scissors or a razor knife. Then, simply invert the bottle over your cutting. Your soil should be moist, but not wet.
You should be able to see through your plastic bottle at all times. If your bottle clouds up to a point where you can’t see what’s inside, you should remove the bottle and let the soil dry out a little before replacing it.
Recycling Plastic Bottles for Starting Seeds
Seeds need constant moisture to germinate properly. Using the same method as above, you can recycle plastic bottles to keep the soil moist while seeds germinate.
Once the seedling has emerged, it’s even more important that you do not let the bottle stay fogged up, as this can cause “damping off”, which simply means that the atmosphere around the seedling is too humid, causing fungus to destroy the seedling…
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There are millions of bottles wasted in landfills every year, but that is a start.