1. Empty Soda Can: Can be used as a soil substitute. Fill the bottom of a large planter with your empties to take up extra space before adding soil.
2. Cinnamon and Cayenne: Can be used for Pest prevention. Sprinkle on molehills to ward off unwanted yard visitors.
3. Coffee Filter: Planter liner. Place the filter at the base of a planter to keep soil from washing out and clogging drainage holes
4. Aluminum Foil: Aphid eliminator. Ball up the tinfoil—shiny side out—and scatter the wads in the soil around plants. The surface will reflect bright sunlight, scaring off aphids.
5. Serving platter: Decorative plant bases. Put multicolored platters or old mix-and-match plates under plants for an instant shot of color and style.
6. Bleach Bottle: A scoop for potting soil. Wash out and cap the empty bottle, then use a pair of sharp scissors to cut diagonally across the bottom, creating a shovel shape.
7. Disposable Diaper: Trapping moisture in planters. Cut up unused diapers and stick them in the end of a planter before adding soil; the liquid-trapping technology will keep the pot hydrated longer.
8. Cardboard Coffee Sleeve: Seed starter. Place the sleeves in a tray, fill with starter soil, seeds and water and voilà…you’re in business.
9. Cotton Rug: A handy garden mat. Drag the rug from spot to spot and plop down on it as you work to avoid dirty pants and unwanted contact with creepy-crawlies. Bonus: It’s machine washable. No more squatting in the soil.
10. 2-Liter Plastic Bottle: A plant-warmer. Fill empty bottles—milk jugs and big juice bottles work, too—with hot water and place them around tomato and pepper plants to create a toasty barrier during low temps. Giving your veggies a fighting chance against frost.
11. Plastic Snow Sled: An all-season garden caddy. Pile up the sled with plants, pots, piles of weeds, and tools and drag it around the yard with you.
12. Shopping Bag: Leaf collector. Fill up the roomy, portable sack when raking and hauling leaves instead of struggling with a giant tarp. A smarter yard solution is in the bag.
13. Mesh Bird Netting: Preventing kitty from turning your flower beds into a litter box. Cut pieces to fit around your plants and cover the mesh with a layer of soil or mulch. Cats can’t dig through the fiber and don’t like the feeling of netting on their claws.
14. Green Onion Ends: A veggie that regenerates itself. Place the end with the bulb in a small cup of water in a sunny spot and watch it shoot up again—almost overnight.
15. Ripped Nylons: Aeration for potted plants. Sock the tattered hose into the bottom of a planter to help oxygenate the soil.
16. Reflective Aluminum Blankets: Warding off frost in the garden. When the weather outside is frightful, gently drape the blanket over plants to keep them insulated.
17. Berry Basket: Protecting crocus bulbs from pesky squirrels. Plant the bulbs under the empty, upside-down baskets to keep the rodents at bay.
18. Boiling Water: Between-crack weed killer. Pour the piping-hot liquid onto the growths that peek through cement to wipe them out.
19. Coffee Grounds: Altering the acidity of your soil. Collect used grounds to add to mulch for acid-loving plants like hydrangeas and roses
20. Serving Spoon: A perfectly sized container gardening tool. The compact tablespoon head makes a better fit than a traditional trowel for digging holes within the confines of a pot.
2. Cinnamon and Cayenne: Can be used for Pest prevention. Sprinkle on molehills to ward off unwanted yard visitors.
3. Coffee Filter: Planter liner. Place the filter at the base of a planter to keep soil from washing out and clogging drainage holes
4. Aluminum Foil: Aphid eliminator. Ball up the tinfoil—shiny side out—and scatter the wads in the soil around plants. The surface will reflect bright sunlight, scaring off aphids.
5. Serving platter: Decorative plant bases. Put multicolored platters or old mix-and-match plates under plants for an instant shot of color and style.
6. Bleach Bottle: A scoop for potting soil. Wash out and cap the empty bottle, then use a pair of sharp scissors to cut diagonally across the bottom, creating a shovel shape.
7. Disposable Diaper: Trapping moisture in planters. Cut up unused diapers and stick them in the end of a planter before adding soil; the liquid-trapping technology will keep the pot hydrated longer.
8. Cardboard Coffee Sleeve: Seed starter. Place the sleeves in a tray, fill with starter soil, seeds and water and voilà…you’re in business.
9. Cotton Rug: A handy garden mat. Drag the rug from spot to spot and plop down on it as you work to avoid dirty pants and unwanted contact with creepy-crawlies. Bonus: It’s machine washable. No more squatting in the soil.
10. 2-Liter Plastic Bottle: A plant-warmer. Fill empty bottles—milk jugs and big juice bottles work, too—with hot water and place them around tomato and pepper plants to create a toasty barrier during low temps. Giving your veggies a fighting chance against frost.
11. Plastic Snow Sled: An all-season garden caddy. Pile up the sled with plants, pots, piles of weeds, and tools and drag it around the yard with you.
12. Shopping Bag: Leaf collector. Fill up the roomy, portable sack when raking and hauling leaves instead of struggling with a giant tarp. A smarter yard solution is in the bag.
13. Mesh Bird Netting: Preventing kitty from turning your flower beds into a litter box. Cut pieces to fit around your plants and cover the mesh with a layer of soil or mulch. Cats can’t dig through the fiber and don’t like the feeling of netting on their claws.
14. Green Onion Ends: A veggie that regenerates itself. Place the end with the bulb in a small cup of water in a sunny spot and watch it shoot up again—almost overnight.
15. Ripped Nylons: Aeration for potted plants. Sock the tattered hose into the bottom of a planter to help oxygenate the soil.
16. Reflective Aluminum Blankets: Warding off frost in the garden. When the weather outside is frightful, gently drape the blanket over plants to keep them insulated.
17. Berry Basket: Protecting crocus bulbs from pesky squirrels. Plant the bulbs under the empty, upside-down baskets to keep the rodents at bay.
18. Boiling Water: Between-crack weed killer. Pour the piping-hot liquid onto the growths that peek through cement to wipe them out.
19. Coffee Grounds: Altering the acidity of your soil. Collect used grounds to add to mulch for acid-loving plants like hydrangeas and roses
20. Serving Spoon: A perfectly sized container gardening tool. The compact tablespoon head makes a better fit than a traditional trowel for digging holes within the confines of a pot.
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