Go Green Upside Down Hanging Planters

Step 10 Hang and Water

Find a nice sunny spot to hang your planter and add water to soak the soil until it drips through the opening.

Cover the opening with some layers of cheesecloth, garden bark or mulch to help keep the soil moist and prevent rapid drying out of the soil.

Comments

[chillicharu]

thnx...

[AstralQueen]

Thanks for this great idea! My herbs have been struggling to get enough sunlight - they've shared a square ceramic box with a mint plant, and my basil has been smothered to the point where they've began to die off. Now with this, they'll get enough sun and water. :D I even replanted things andorganized them properly so they all get enough space and water! Thanks again!

[lizspice]

Mint is a very aggressive plant, it will take over your whole garden if you let it! Keep mint seperate in a container, your other plants will thank you! :)

[jcewazhere]

Could you plant another plant on the top of the planter? Grow out of the bottom and the top?

[PrincessBabycakes]

Thanks for this fab instructable!! I made it today and it was really easy (although getting the tomato plants through was tricky - think I'll use smaller ones next time!) Ti stop the water evaporating, I punched holes in the cut-off bottom of the bottle and pushed it into the top of the planter. Not only does this stop the water evaporating but makes a nice little water bowl that I can just fill up and let it drip feed into the planter.

[mibz man]

omg! thats what i did 2 even before i read that!

[Hope21]

Hi, I also like to do something for increasing greenry around the place I live at but your idea is superb. I am going to try it right away. To support the 'Go Green' movement at my end, I recently brought a electric bike from www.rmartinbikes.com and love the way it runs. Since my workplace is slightly far from my home I used to travel by a car, but now the enviornmentalist in me takes pride in using a zero pollution vehicle. I'll log in again to get more ideas. Till then, HAppy blogging

[pyrofyr]

While it's all cool that you have an electric bike that energy from the electricity sadly comes from a plant where they get energy through worse means (but including) fossil fuels sadly. As of now the only way to truly make an electrical bike green is to charge it through the use of solar panels (possibly on your roof)? There are some cool instructables on how to do so here if you're interested though :]

[DebH57]

Thats great Hope I would like to hear more about your electric bike too, sounds like something I might want to do.

[Hope21]

Sure, hop on :-) and join the wagon!!

[scelesta]

Cool idea. You could also try planting into top of the inverted bottle, and have growth from both ends. That might require some type of larger recycled container, though. I'm going to try it out with a large 1.75 gallon bottle that came with Olive Oil in it.

[DHFabian]

Or-- Keep the cap on the bottle, punch holes on the sides of the bottle, and plant any easy-to-grow type of vine.

[tickie]

Wonderful, I plan to make these with our local school kids for a grow it eat it project and use it for the library talks I do on herbs !!!! Thank you, thank you.

[Quinkes]

Thought this was an excellent idea, the only thing that I did in addition was to make very small holes in the cut off lid section of the bottle and place it upside down in the top, so that that when I water the plant, the water seeps slowly on to the soil.