Bottle Tops Hanging Herb Garden
Another inexpensive way to make a herb garden is to use the top of plastic bottles – that way you are gardening and recycle at the same time! The wall-mounted herb garden requires a few materials:
• A piece of wood (to mount the bottle tops on)
• Some empty 2-litre plastic bottles
• Batting
• Fresh herbs of your choice
• Potting soil
• Some small screws
• 2 picture hooks
• 2 concrete nail
• Hammer
Let’s see how it’s done!
• Cut a piece of the board to the size you want for your hanging herb garden. It should be approximately 20 cm wide and long enough to accommodate the number of herbs you want to place in the herb garden.
• Attach two picture hangers to the top of the board at the back, for mounting onto the wall.
• Use a craft knife to cut the top sections off the drink bottles. If you look at the empty bottle, you will see a moulding line at the top, and you can use this to cut a straight line.
• Space the bottle tops evenly along the length of the board to allow for growing height, and fasten the tops onto the board with the small screws.
• Use a piece of bundled up batting to fill in the neck of the bottle. This prevents the soil from falling out. Only place a small amount of potting soil into the container for now, as the soil from the potted herb will take up quite a bit of space.
• Plant the herbs into the container and fill up with soil, leaving at least a one-centimetre gap between the level of soil and the top of the container.
• Now you are ready to hang your herb garden in a sunny spot just outside the kitchen door. Measure where you want it to hang and hammer in two concrete nails.