Creating a mini greenhouse is the perfect way to balance spring planting with Mother Nature’s harsh temperatures.
Confused? Well, it’s pretty simple: Spring gardening often begins with getting plants into the ground as soon as possible. However, if you put the plants in too soon, a hard frost could kill them, so you have to be careful.
One way to protect the plant is to create a mini greenhouse. And don’t worry, it doesn’t require much — just an empty soda bottle.
How to Make a Small Greenhouse
First, grab a two-liter bottle, then use a utility knife to slice off the bottom. You don’t have to be a perfectionist here — cutting neatly doesn’t really matter. Just slice off the bottom of the bottle and slip it over the plant — it’s that simple!
Your mini greenhouse will capture the sun and heat during the day to help the plants grow quickly. But if it gets too hot, you can simply twist off the cap and let some of that heat escape.
At night, you should put that cap back on the small greenhouse because you don’t want a frost to hurt the plants, and that’ll trap some of the heat.
In just two or three weeks, you’ll have fresh herbs from your mini greenhouse. So this will help you stay self-sufficient and environmentally friendly!
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Joe Truini: Spring planting often begins with getting the plants into the ground as soon as possible. If you put them in too soon, a hard frost could kill them. So you have to be careful of that. But one way to protect the plant is to create a cloche or a mini greenhouse out of an empty soda bottle.
This is a two liter bottle that I just use a utility knife to slice off the bottom. And it creates this little again, like a little mini greenhouse. So you just slip it over the plant. These happen to be herb plants. They’re oregano. Here’s a second bottle for this plant here. And again, just slice. Doesn’t have to be that neat. Doesn’t really matter. Slide it over. Beautiful. There you go. Little mini greenhouse.
Now that will capture the sun and the heat during the day to keep those plants growing quickly. But if it gets too hot, you can simply twist off the cap, let some of that heat escape. But again, at night, I’d highly recommend putting that back on because you don’t want to frost to hurt these plants and that’ll trap some of the heat. And in two or three weeks you’ll have fresh herbs from your garden.
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