Milk jug gardening

Making miniature greenhouses out of milk jugs creates the perfect environment for baby plants to sprout. Here's how to do it.

Usually I order most of my garden seeds for the year in January or February. A few weeks later I put together milk jug greenhouses. These easy, miniature greenhouses help give seedlings a jump start on the growing season. You can make them any time before your final frost date. This post will explain how ... Read more

DIY Herb Garden - You might want to save your leftover plastic bottles when you see this awesome kitchen idea!

The plastic in milk jugs is very sturdy, making them useful for a variety of purposes, especially in the garden. Here are seven ideas.

Container gardening doesn't have to be an expensive undertaking. Instead of buying lots of expensive decorative planters, you can create your own containers using recycled containers like milk jugs. A 1-gallon plastic milk jug is large enough to hold an incredible variety of vegetables and can be easily decorated if you want a fancier look in your milk jug garden. There are many vegetables that can be grown in milk jug pots. Some plants are better suited to this method of container…

Some seeds need to go through the process of cold stratification in order to break their dormancy and sprout. Nature will handle this on its own, by overwintering seeds in the ground that were dropped during the growing season. However, we can easily replicate this natural process by winter sowing. This post contains affiliate links

So you've tried winter sowing and it worked! You have some seedlings snug in their milk jug container. So how do you get them safely from the winter sown container to their final garden spot? Here's some tips to ensure success and a link to a full pictorial of Winter Sowing 101 for beginners. Sunset Hosta Farm.com.

One of the biggest challenges I face with early season gardening in our greenhouse is remembering to water the plants. There's still snow on the ground so my brain hasn't fully shifted into garden season

Over the winter I had been rescuing all of the 4-liter milk jugs from the recycling bin. Recycling is a great thing to do with milk jugs of course, but I just couldn’t pass up on the opportunity to have plenty of useful plastic containers to help me with my gardening this spring, and all for free! Let me pass some on my ideas on to you and see you find them useful too. Plant

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