Use for plastic containers in the garden?

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Put on your brainwave hats, please. I have a number of clear plastic "tubs" for lack of a better word. They are #1-PETE plastic, so I could just recycle them. However, I thought they MIGHT be useful for something in the garden. Any ideas? [description below]

I have 20 or so. Also have the lids, which are also #1-PETE. They are about 6" in diameter and about 4" deep. In the bottom, there is a sort of a "dome", so that in the center, the container is probably only 3 to 3-1/2" deep. As I said above, they are clear (lids too). I think they would work as "greenhouses" for very small, short plants, if I punched a couple of holes in the bottom and inverted them over plants. But I don't have many plants that fit this description. Most are too tall already.

I've already collected a number of plastic water bottles (the small size) that I intend to use in the garden -- plan to cut the bottom off then invert them in the soil next to plants for watering. The idea is to make watering easier and to deliver it to the plant roots instead of it spreading all over the place and not knowing how much each plant is actually getting (I will do general all-over watering too).

I also have gallon jugs to use for garden cloches and/or makeshift "Wall O'Water" usage (the water jugs absorb heat during the day and give it off over night).

So, I thought there might be a use for these containers. I look forward to reading your ideas!

Gak! It's 79*F here! Three days ago we topped at 53*F. I really dislike it when the weather does this!

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2002

Answers

Give them to Earthmamma?

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2002

Window sill herb gardens. I use the dome lids for greenhouse covers. BTW , each potted herb I put together sells out of my greenhouse for 10 to 15 dollars each.

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2002

Joy, sounds like you have ready made fly traps. Cut a 3/4 inch hole in the dome part, add a little bait, put the lid on and hang them up someplace. I just made two fly traps today out of coke bottles. Cut the tops off, turned them upside down and used a hot glue gun to seal them up. That way, I can hang them with the opening on the bottom and they don't act like a rain gauge.

Wildman, (hating flies)

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2002


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