soda bottle garden

Here at Loquidenville (the name we have given our house), we have always wanted a garden. So when we got our new place we were pretty excited to get started. Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of space in our yard to actual plant a garden since it is mostly brick and concrete.

So we decided to do something about it.

We found a photo online where someone took soda bottles to use as planters for their garden. Being that we had a few of these lying about, we figured “what the heck”.

Here’s how we did it:

First, I cut holes length-wise along the bottles using my handy-dandy pocket-knife (no good boy scout should be without one).

We used standard potting soil you can get from any local hardware or garden store.

Here’s one of the kiddos filling her bottle with potting soil…and Shadow-Dog trying to eat the soil (I swear this dog will eat anything).

Here at Loquisenville we know how to party in 100 degree weather.

It’s important to choose vegetables that are right for the time of year. We decided on beets, radishes, spinach, mustard, and (my personal favorite) brussel sprouts.

Once your bottles are full use your fingers to make room to place your seeds in the dirt.

Add your seeds according to the directions (or, if you’re like me, just dump them in like so):

Cover the seeds with more dirt and then get them nice and wet (you will need to do this every day (the getting them wet; not the dirt)).

And, if you do things right, you too could have an awesome soda bottle garden like us. Here’s hoping something actually comes from it.