Put on your gardening clothes, there’s a brand new craft
right here…
They’re perfect for a junk garden, which is a garden filled with things otherwise destined for the trash bin repurposed as pots, planters, garden ornaments, trellises, etc. It just may help delay the world turning into the giant desolate trash heap WALL-E inhabits, too…
All you need is:
- An old pair of rain boots
- Potting soil
- A trowel
- A drill with a 3/8” bit
- Some annual flowers
- I planted pink periwinkles, a.k.a. vincas.
Here's what to do:
1. If there are insoles in the boots, then remove them.
2. Put one of the boots over something that won’t be ruined by
the drill (or ruin your drill either, for that matter). I just put mine on the
ground, so the drill bit will go into the dirt once it’s through the boot sole.
3. Reach the drill down into the boot and drill a couple holes.
It doesn’t have to go all the way through the sole yet. The drill should loosen up the fabric lining. Reach down into the toe area and peel the lining out of the
boot. This will make it easier to drill through the soles because the drill won't keep getting caught in the fabric.
4. Now drill 5-10 holes all the way through the sole of the
boot. Try to get a couple holes as close to the toes as possible, so not all
the holes are clustered together in the heel.
5. Repeat this with the other boot. The holes are there to
drain out excess water.
6. Now, just fill the boots with potting soil up to about 5
inches below the top edge. Make sure to get dirt down in the toes.
7. Take the flowers out of the plastic containers they came in
and loosen the soil around the bottom of the roots a bit (shown on the left). Put the flowers down in each boot so the base of the plant
is about half an inch to an inch below the boot’s top edge. Fill in around the plants with
more potting soil and pat down the dirt (done in the right boot).
8. Give the flowers a nice drink of water and pick a special spot
for your new planters to sit!
