[Homestead] Ingenuity
Leslie
cayadopi at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 16 18:06:45 EDT 2009
I don't drink hardly ever the kinds of things that come in 1 gallon milk bottles (store bought tea, o.j., milk, imitation drinks, etc.).............. but others do... so I have them save me those 1 gallon bottles.
I cut them in half. They can be used for
container to be used for handling small portions of paint when painting....
growing seedlings in
turning upside side over direct sowed seedlings (for those who have problem with the birds or other critters eating all new sprouted plants) until the plants have more 2 leaves
cut slightly differently a container for harvesting beans beans and more beans ;-)
I don't drink soda either, but if I did I would use them to start seedlings or cover direct sow seedlings....
Needless to say, I hunt thru the garbage around here.... even for glass jars with screw on tops.
I did not have much luck with starting seedlings in toilet paper rolls this year. They sprouted just fine, but I think the air is sooooooooo dry here at that time of year (15-20% humidity) that they dried out faster than I could keep them moist. Even when they survived to transplanting time,,,,,,,, transplants pretty much failed.
However,,,,,,,,,, I did start my own onion sets from seed last November, indoors, in milk jugs..... and wallah........ they transplanted beautifully and are getting close to harvest.
(I just harvested about 80-90 onions from sets that I bought from Walmart in the spring). Yahoo !
Onions, taters & green beans so far.
--- On Mon, 6/15/09, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 at hotmail.com> wrote:
I hadn't thought of them holding eggs! I use them filled with water to take
up freezer space and have ice on hand for coolers. I also use them filled
with water under remay to absorb heat and give it off at night.
I cut off the top, poke holes in the bottom, and use them for planting
tomatoes...I move tomatoes from cell packs to the soda bottle and gradually
fill the whole bottle with soil as the plant grows...it acts as a mini
topless greenhouse when they are small, and produces deep roots as they grow
(and I can see through the plastic how the roots are doing). If I have
trouble getting the plant out, I can just cut them.
I also use the bottoms as scoops, the tops as funnels. and all sorts of
things I can't remember.
Lynn Wigglesworth
----- Original Message -----
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky at bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Ingenuity
>I don't buy coke in 2 liters anymore either, but I still have a few
> laying around. They are good in the greenhouse and if you cut off the
> top, a dozen eggs fits nicely in one and it is vertical space in the
> fridge. What do you use yours for?
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
>
>> I've started trying to use everything I can around here, as many times as
>> I
>> can reuse it. Soda bottles are especially useful (of course my first
>> austerity move was to stop buying soda, so I'm running out of bottles).
>
> --
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> EarthNSky Farm, NW Georgia, USA
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