Individual Plant Green House From Waste Bottle

Do you do gardening? If you do, do some smart animals see fresh soil after you plant and steal the seeds to eat, you have to replant after replant? Do some birds do that too? Do some animals eat your seedlings as their 5 am breakfast? Do late spring frost almost kill your plants some times? Do rain drops splash dirt to your plants and cause them to develop diseases? Do animals, especially mouse, cut your pole beans and other climbing plants at ground after it climbed all the way to the top of your trellis? If you had any of these problems, hope you will like this Instructable. Because in this Instructable, I will show you how to make individual plant green house that will protect your planting and plants, so you'll actually enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Many wide moth plastic jars (I eat a lot nuts and collect the jars)

A hair blow dryer

A stencil cutter

A pair of garden scissors

Remove the label by blowing hot air on the label and the glue will loosen up. It is very easy to remove label this way. Never ever try to wash the label as the first approach to remove it. This is a good job for a child. They can do it very well without any instruction and learn a lot about chemistry.

Use stencil cutter to make a beginning cut. Then use scissors to cut all around the bottom to remove it.

Make a slit for drip irrigation line if you have it in your garden.

That's all the work in it. Almost no work at all. When you plant your seeds or seedlings in the ground, you can place the jar over your seed plantings and put the lid on. Remove the lid once the seeds poke out of ground so the seedling can have unobstructed sunlight. Put the lid on if there is late spring frost, hail, or strong storm in forecast.

You can keep the opened jar in the garden until the end of season. You can also remove them once your plants are strong enough and you have other methods of protection from animals that eat plant leaves and stalk. Experiment and do whatever works in your garden.

Although pictures in this Instructable show mushroom popcorn I grow every year, these cost-nothing individual plant greenhouses can be used on all plants when they are young. I would not plant pole beans and other climbing plants without these after one year mouse cut my pole beans at ground after they have climbed all the way to the roof on the corner of my house.

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