How to Make a Recycled Plastic Bottle Planter

Craft: How to Make a Recycled Water Bottle Planter

Donna
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June 8, 2018

This is a cute and easy project for gardeners or even for kid projects that gives you lots of extra planters for all your newly seedlings or propagated plants!

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Uses bottles from recycling.

Total Time: 5 minutes

Supplies:

• 1 plant
• 1 cup potting soil or dirt
• 1 pre-washed recycling water bottle
• scissors or X-acto knife
• a drill, awl (not shown in pic)
• or cotton ball (not used in my sample)

 

Steps:

1. Use scissors or X-acto knife (be careful!) and cut your plastic bottle in half.

 
2. You may either drill a hole in the cap, use an awl punch and punch a hole in the cap OR remove the cap completely and stuff a cotton ball in the neck of the bottle.

 
3. Turn the top of the bottom upside down and fit it into the bottom of the bottle as shown.

 
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4. Fill the top section with soil.

 
5. Add your plant, water gently and your done!

 

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Robyn

February 8, 2017

I save plastic soda bottles. They are useful to me. I also save fast food plastic cups, and cut the tops off of them. These make tiny plant pots. These are what I put in the bottom of the pretty plant holders I make out of soda bottles.

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