Soda-Bottle Planter

• 1). Discard the cap and wash a 2-liter plastic soda bottle. Fill it with a solution of 9 parts water and 1 part bleach. Let it sit inside the bottle for 30 minutes to disinfect it.
  
  
• 2). Cut the bottom of the bottle with a box cutter. Make the cut at the point where the grooves on the bottle end and the flat surface begins. Discard the bottom.
  
  
• 3). Cut two ¼-inch holes opposite each other through the bottle. Use the pointy end of a pair of scissors or knife. Make the holes 1 inch below the bottle's cut end to attach a handle from which to hang the planter.
  
  
• 4). Lay the bottle on its side an insert a seedling's roots through the narrow opening at the top.
  
  
• 5). Suspend the bottle to avoid squashing the plant. Add potting soil into the bottle's cut end. Water the soil thoroughly.
  
  
• 6). Pass a sturdy stick through the two opposite holes you made in Step 3. A chopstick and a hair stick are two options. Tie a piece of twine on the tips of the stick on the outside of the planter. Hang the upside-down planter from the twine handle.
  
  

Milk-Jug Planter

• 1). Wash a quart or gallon plastic milk jug with water and dishwashing detergent. Fill it with 9 parts water and 1 part bleach for 30 minutes to kill organisms with the potential to infect the soil.
  
  
• 2). Cut an X with a box cutter on the bottom of the milk jug. Make each slash about 1 inch long. Push the four points of the X in. They should bend backward far enough to create a ½-inch hole into which you will insert the seedling's roots.
  
  
• 3). Make two holes opposite each other at the base of the bottle's neck with the pointy end of a pair of scissors or knife. Insert an S-shaped metal hook into each hole. Fasten a metal chain to the hooks and hang the planter from it.
  
  
• 4). Push the seedling's roots through the X-cut you made in Step 2.
  
  
• 5). Funnel potting mix into the milk jug through the bottle's opening at the top.
  
  
• 6). Irrigate the seedling thoroughly.