Window Sill Herb Garden Gift: Made In Clementine Box
Posted Nov 19, 08 -Filed Under Children's Crafts, Crafts, Garden, MYO Gifts, reuse clementine box, reuse ice cream containers | Leave a Comment
A window sill garden would make a great Christmas gift. And while you are at it, make one for yourself too.
The black “tray” used under this plant was fast food waste. Plan ahead and reuse your trash!
Plant Your Own Herb Garden Kit: Made With Recycled Materials
How to:
Include in the window sill kit everything needed to grow this herb garden: one Clementine box, six- 1 pint ice-cream containers with lids, potting soil, and seed packets.
Poke a drainage hole in the middle of the bottom of ice-cream containers. Fill with potting soil. Decorate the lids with pictures of herbs cut from last year’s seed catalogs or use the inside of a cereal box and write your own label. I used a circle cutter (found at craft stores) but you could cut the rim off an extra cover for a stencil that you can then trace. Line the Clementine box with plastic or reuse plastic cups from your recycle bin. Often times companies offer mixed seed packets but if making several herb gardens, you could repackage seeds: giving each kit a few of each kind of seed. A pretty ribbon adds to the presentation.
Note: You will need to put a spacer in the bottom of your Clementine box. Use whatever you can find to raise up the bottom of the box about an inch. Salvaged peanuts and a piece of scrap cardboard will do the trick. The spacer is needed to lift the containers because the covers are on. Once the lids are removed, the spacer can also be removed; the containers will now fit.
A Gift Tray of Seedlings
How to:
Alternatively you can pot some small herbs either store bought or share from your garden; just skip the lids.
