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Clean out a butter container and cut a small silver dollar sized hole in the bottom of it, you can adjust it later. Put several Morning Glory leaves through the hole, roots facing the open side of the butter container. Hold them in place this way, and put dirt over them. Hold the roots in about two inches and pour the dirt over that. Make sure the plant is pretty much anchored into the dirt by very SOFTLY pulling on it and seeing that it is secure. Put Moonflower seeds in the top of the container and they will grow out of the top of the planter. The Moonflowers will bloom at night and the Morning Glories will bloom in the morning.
I hung these with the long twisty ties, but I could have hung them with anything else I had around. I always use recycled materials. I made my planter hole too big so I criss-crossed masking tape up and down and then taped over it along the sides of the butter container. I like the bright colors. I use this tape on my walking sticks that I make out of pruned branches from our trees and I make the kids use them when they walk to help let traffic see them. Anyway, I wish I had used thinner more porous dirt, since the dirt I used is very thick and clay like. Everything is coming up alright in the top though! I chose to hang it on an already hanging decoration on the patio, so it is doing double duty as a planter and a decoration. Have fun!
By Robyn Fed from Hampton, TN
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07/14/2010
Here is an update as of July 14, 2010
The morning glories are beginning to bloom, as they do each mid July, it takes them forever. The Moon flowers are growing nice, next time however I am going to recycle an old Easter basket maybe and use that soft stuff you can buy at the stores, it looks like twigs but I cant think of what it is, and then plant them in that. I think that would look cute. <3
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By Mary Moo
Please use caution as it won't take long for the bottle to warm up enough to allow the neck to be repositioned and if you hold it too close or too long the heat gun will burn holes into the bottle. Now take something sharp and cut off the very bottom of the bottle. Then take the sharp tool and punch four holes into the top on the sides of the now cut off area. Tie four pieces of strings into the four holes and tie them together, or use small chains, this will be how you hang it up. As you can see the top is now the bottom and the bottom is now the top.
Very gently take your young tomato plant or cucumber etc...and push it up into the opening (where the lid use to go), I like to push it up past the bottom two leaves. While holding the tomato plant with one hand to keep it inside of the bottle making sure to sort of lean the root and stem over to the side of the bottle, add a few rocks using the larger opening, to keep the plant and dirt from washing out and fill with potting soil all the way to the top. Hang it up and water it. Its not as cumbersome as the buckets and practically everyone has those 2 liter cola bottles around, you can also use milk jugs, the kind without the handles. Happy planting and especially happy eating! (06/24/2008)
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