For gardening, you can make homemade tools and other tools from milk bottles. This will allow you to acquire the necessary equipment for free, and in addition, use plastic for good, rather than send it to a landfill.
Option 1: Scoop
By cutting off the bottom of the bottle along with part of the side wall from the handle side, you can get a scoop for the soil.
It is convenient for them to collect soil into flowerpots. This scoop can also be used to scoop up flour, sugar, cereals, grains and other bulk products. Due to its low rigidity, it is not suitable for digging or digging, but is ideal for bulk materials.
Option 2: Garden trowel-funnel for collecting seeds
If you cut off the handle of the bottle along with the side to which it adjoins below, you will get a small trowel.
It can be used to collect scattered bulk materials, such as seeds. They need to be swept onto it with a broom or brush. It also functions as a funnel.
With its help, it is easy to pour the collected seeds into bags. To do this, a trowel handle is inserted into the bag, along which the seeds are poured out like a funnel.
Option 3: Tray
If you cut off the bottom of the bottle, you get a small tray.
You can soak seeds in it for germination. It is also convenient to grow microgreens in such a tray. By the way, it can be made from the scraps of a bottle left over after making a trowel.
Option 4: Tags
The walls of the bottle can be cut into small strips.
Since they are white and rough, a marker writes well on them. The strips can be signed and used as tags. If you don’t have a permanent marker, it’s better to protect the inscriptions with a regular felt-tip pen by gluing a piece of tape on top of them.
From one bottle you will get a couple of dozen tags, which can be inserted into the ground next to the plant, or stitched with wire and tied to branches.
Option 5: Watering can
By puncturing 10-15 holes in the cap of a milk bottle with an awl, it can be used as a watering can.
Its capacity is enough to care for potted seedlings or several indoor plants.
Option 6: Pot for seedlings
By cutting off the side of the bottle along with the handle, you can make an elongated pot for planting seedlings or salad greens.
The cut is made slightly above the bottle cap to make the pot sealed from the sides.
