The Garden Bug: Recycling Containers

By Brenda Weaver

Instead of throwing out all your "throw away" containers, clean and re-purpose them for the garden. Plastic tubs can hold cuttings or young plants, and plastic lids can prevent surface damage by clay pots. Glass jars can hold candles in sand, seed pods or flowers in water. Egg trays can be seed starters. Cardboard can block weed growth in flower beds. Make a funky garden art/birdhouse/collectables display by nailing cans to a board, using buttons, beads, rocks or shells to decorate it.