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Instead of spending alot of money on hotcaps its really easy to make your own. Just save all of your 2 liter bottles and cut a inch of the bottom of them. Take the plastic label off them aswell. Now you have your hotcap. Be sure that when you put in on a plant out in the garden to take the cap off because if it becomes hot, no air can reach the plant and it will die. Happy Gardening
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I'm doing that with some of my window stuff - I managed to save a pot of herbs (oregano & summer savory). They were becoming black and seedy looking. I got them into some fresh soil, put some other stuff in the pot, watered and put the top half of a fruit jug on it. Left the bottlecap off - that provides air.
Results? Well my greens have come back and that's good enough for me.
* * * * When sorting seeds, do not whistle. Plants: 2784 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Jul 2004
| Seeded: 209.135.108.53
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How about taking that very same 2 litre bottle and make a small hole in the cap. Fill the bottle with water, replace the cap then turn the bottle upside down and stick it in the ground next to your favourite plant/vegetables. It takes a bit of experimenting with the hole size but it works!
Plants: 13 | From: Southern England | Registered: Nov 2004
| Seeded: 195.93.32.13
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I take the round Juicy Juice Jugs and cut the very bottom of them off... and do the same thing for little mini~hot~house's..
And then, I also turn them upside down and shove them into the dirt and use them as funnels to concentrate a good watering when you can't get at the plant too well, and need to get some water to the roots like with acorn plants that wander all over the place and you can't remember where the roots or the beginning of the plant is...
I'm going to do an experiment if I can afford a bit of this is take a long piece of PVC piping and shove that into the ground and duct tape the funnel end to the pipe, so I have a taller thing to connect it too, cause some times it gets so over run you can't see the funnel..
Weezie
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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
and I couldn't find a picture. But here's one... Acorn Squash (**It's the orange and green one's on the left side**)
I cook them in the micro, cut in half, scoop the seeds out, but in micro~safe bowl, with half filled water, and butter in the squash *some put in also brown sugar*, cover with a tight saran wrap, and micro on high for **Depending on freshness of acorn, straight from the garden, 5~6 minutes/grocery store bought 7~8 minutes.**
Does that help a bit???
Weezie
* * * * Weezie
Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it. - Bible - Hebrews 13:2
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I wonder if I could grow them on my very acidic soil? I might have a go at that.
The bottles? I thought of using those little wee ones you pack for kids in their lunchboxes. Filling them with tea, then poking them into the soil to create a border for something.
I thought it would look kinda' creative, and when I can't be bothered going to fill the watering can, I can just take one of the bottles and use the tea to water - plants love tea.
I like this idea about the small hole in the cap too.
* * * * When sorting seeds, do not whistle. Plants: 2784 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Jul 2004
| Seeded: 209.135.110.73
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excellent advice.And you can use the bottom of the bottle for seed starting too.![[wayey]](graemlins/wavey.gif)
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Thanks!!!!
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