Poor mans paper coffee cup garden.

This is an instructable on how to make a cheap, easy,  coffee cup garden.
i made this because it was really cheap, so it works out because i don't have any money to spend.
hope you like this easy to make garden and please vote.

Step 1 What you need to get started

1. paper coffee cups
2. stapler
3. popsicle sticks
4. bamboo skewers
5. marker
6. dirt
7. knife
8. seeds, total i spent $4.27 on seeds, i could have made twenty times this garden

Comments

[Instructalot]

Great idea for using paper coffee cups for gardening purposes. I never thought to use them that way. We always buy the cups because of their "green" ability (and it saves us throwing away plastic AND washing dishes,) this would be a great way to reuse them. An even closer-to-home recycling so to say. I linked where we buy our cups (in bulk, because it's cheaper) above if anyone wants to get a head start on their garden, or change their use habits. :)

Thanks for the article! Maybe we can match it up with a green watering system, too!

[sfcsarah]

 This is a fairly common idea though. I have been doing this for years already.
Btw, are you adding this to the garden contest?

[unpure]

 The skewers are to allow the plants to grow up them (in the case of peas/tomatoes/beans they need to grow up something, without anything they'll just sprawl out over the available space and not grow ~properly (which is OK, but not good for your space management))

[tvandang]

what is the use of the bamboo skewers?

[nguoidanbadep]

 That's a good idea you have to reuse those coffee cups. I think we still need to punch some drainage holes at the bottom.
The other idea was using the tin food cans for the same purpose.
Thanks for sharing.
Noina Bruno

[localtalent]

 Great!  I have some plant seedlings at home I need to get going, maybe I'll use some of the coffee cups left in the office.

Do you poke a hole in the bottom of the cup so the water drains?

[jd570a]

When I was gardening, I used this method.

When I transplanted, I would cut the cup leaving the top few inches of the cup in place. The effect being that a inch of cup would stick out of the ground and surround the stem. I did not have a cutworm problem when I did this, plus the cup would decompose.

[wazzup105]

Nice idea  !

I'd almost regret:
1 - I don't drink coffee
2 - the local coffee-cups are not big enough (and made of plastic).

I may get some from the waste-bin at work and get some more seeds going (Although I am already running out of places to store them)

Also, when I plant seeds I usually cover the vessel up with some plastic (like cling film) so I don't run the risk of the soil drying out witing for the seeds to germinate.

[jordan21892]

yeah i was thinking about making a greenhouse type thing from bamboo skewers and seran wrap to go around the whole thing.