This Instructable will show you how to recycle and grow some plants and flowers at the same time. I will show you how to become a little "Greener".
 
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Step 1: Mini Greenhouses

Want to become a little more "Green". Then what's better to do that than making recycled green houses. These are made from old containers for rotisserie chicken, cake containers, and other miscellaneous clear plastic containers.

All you have to do is fill up your containers you choose to use. Add your seeds and put the plants into the container. This works by keeping the water inside of the container making a humid environment for the plants. I use this mostly for starting the seeds, it has worked great for me.
tincanz says: Feb 12, 2011. 10:29 AM
Awesome ible!
Do you mind if add it to my "Plants" Group?
twiztedreams says: May 17, 2009. 8:48 AM
Thanks for your great ideas! I have been looking for ideas for old toilet paper rolls and have used them to support seedlings before. Only problem was that it seemed like the cardboard was taking too much water out of my soil. I will DEFINITELY be using your idea with the chicken or cake containers and making green houses! That is a fantastic idea! Thanks
thenear1send says: Jun 15, 2008. 5:50 PM
What exactly is this instructing about? there are like 10 other projects on this site that actually explain, and go step by step on the two projects that you are just barely mentioning. This doesn't really provide any valuable knowledge at all.
tabletopphoto in reply to thenear1sendOct 31, 2008. 8:03 AM
i get it
coreyjune12 (author) in reply to thenear1sendJun 15, 2008. 6:34 PM
These are more suggestions of what you could do. I don't think you really need step by step instructions on how to cut a toilet paper tube, or put plants into a cake box ;-). Most people learned how to do that in kindergarten, this is just how they can put that previous "knowledge" to good use.
thenear1send in reply to coreyjune12Jun 17, 2008. 4:55 PM
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kgb2 says: May 2, 2008. 8:19 AM
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/hil/hil-134.html

The link above from North Carolina University tells you about that plant you found in the woods. They are lovely, aren't they? I have them across the street from me along the Hudson River and I love them every spring. You can transplant a little bit if you can properly provide a nice little home for it where you are. You need a moist semi-shady spot with lots of humusy compost and peat moss added, with some pine needles to cover the soil (for mulch) around the plant's rhizome. They like semi-shade with rich and alive soil that is somewhat acidic and moist. They are called bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) and are a native wildflower known as a member of the papaver family, or "poppy". They were well known to the native peoples of the Americas, known to us as "Indians" (vs the "cowboys"), who used them for medicinal purposes.
coreyjune12 (author) in reply to kgb2May 30, 2008. 1:11 PM
Thanks for telling me I wasn't sure what it was.
caitlinsdad says: Apr 25, 2008. 11:19 AM
I love it that you recycle paper tubes also. I never would have thought to use them for seed starters. I just make bobblebots out of mine.
coreyjune12 (author) in reply to caitlinsdadApr 25, 2008. 12:57 PM
Thanks, those bobble bots look cool.
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