Mel,
Love the rocks!
Nifty idea!!!
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Warning;
LONG POST
I save the green baskets that the strawberries come in handy for pickin' my cherry tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, etc. in the garden......
*and I save the plastic containers the cherry tomatoes come in for mini~greenhouse's for the kids at boyscouts/bible school/etc.
I save all the card board containers that when I get a flat of something, like at a wholesale place, you get 8 cans of something, like say tomato sauce and then there's a plastic wrapping on it.....when I take out the can's I slit the top, and keep the plastic on it, and use them when I have people pop over **Unexpectantly sometimes too** in my yard and want to send goodies/plants home with them from my garden..
some times if it's wet or you've just watered, or heavy in soil or what ever the case is, you pull a plant out and sit it on one of those, it's card board will suck up the water/moisture and the plastic keeps it from getting into the car/or their lap on the way home!!!
I save old clorox bottles *any that are like that are fine* and depending how you cut them up, you can have several things out of them...
If you take the top half off, you've got a container for something, paint brushes or whatever. If you cut it so the just the very bottom is taken off, you can have a homemade scoop for like dog or cat food, carring some water *keep the cap* or if you take the cap off, a funnel...
and you can use it as a pooper scooper too???
You can use the bottoms for saucers if you need them for plants in pots that like water/wet feet.
I use the juice jugs too (like Juicey Juice),
cut the very bottom off and turn them upside down, push the neck of the juice jug into the dirt and water them or inside the jug, instead of the ground when watering my plants.
I use the old styrofoam trays that come in big fruit things with the saran over the top (**You could save the ones from the meat tray's too, but I don't, something about raw meat and me don't
get along :p YUK, but if you feel you can wash them up and use them, go right ahead, it's just me. I use them for trays when I start seeds, I needed a little bit extra moisture when starting seeds and this method helped for me....
I did use the hard plastic ones' from meat trays but I could put those into the dishwasher and sanitize them better..
I also save the jugs that kids get to get those sugar drinks in, like "JUG'S"... I save them to put flowers into it.... and for several reasons..
They're small, and there's not too many small vases, and I can send the kids over to Gramma's house with the vases/flowers so I know if they accidently trip it won't break and cut the kids.
and if I put some flowers to the curb for the kids to sell up front on the side walk the people can take them home right in them...
And if you'd like flowers outside on a picnic table, you can put the flowers out in those and if the wind blows the vase/flowers over, no worries in the vase breaking.....just put a little rock in the bottom for a wee~bit of weight.
How many more do can ya stand????
I am the total frugal gardener....
Weezie