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Old drink bottles are a great way of feeding or watering your plants.
Simply insert a number of small holes and place it in the ground next to a plant.
Fill it up with water each day and it will make sure all the roots are being well watered and fed. This is especially important when growing vegetables.
- Make a hole in a potato
- Cut the stem of the rose and the bud
- Push the stem into the hole of the potato but not all the way through
- Fill a pot of soil and put the potato in about half way down with a good 3 inches of soil on top
- Make sure to give it plenty of water and keep it moist
- The potato keeps the stem moist and helps the roots to grow
- cut a toilet roll in half
- make four cuts into the toilet roll about 1/3 of the way up
- fold the bottom of the roll where the cuts are so its enclosed
- fill the pots up with light potting soil, pack it down and put your seeds in