• Hanging shoe-organizer herb garden from Instructables. We've seen a thousand clever re-uses for the over the door show organizer, but I think this vertical garden might just take the cake.
• If crocs have a chance at attractive, this is it. The creative folks at Real Simple placed moss in the toe of the shoe, filled it with soil, and used the holes as drainage.
• ReadyMade featured this planter was made from a thrifted colander and an old wire hanger. I think that the concept would look especially brilliant in a grouping of 3.
• There seems to be limitless uses for Ikea's ASKER container. Ikea hacker Marc used his as an outdoor vertical succulent garden which also helps distract from his neighbor's eyesore fence.
• The elementary school favorite! I remember making one of these for mother's day in 3rd grade, but the tin can concept is looking pretty sweet once again. For instructions visit Thrifty Fun's website.
Images: 1: Instructables , 2: Real Simple, 3: ReadyMade via Bethany Blah on Curbly, 4: ikea hacker, 5: Thrifty Fun
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The hanging shoe organizer garden is genius!
Cute ideas, though I'm not sure the IKEA Asker containers really count as recycled or 'hacked' - flip through any IKEA catalogue from the last few years and you'll see these little guys holding just as many plants as kitchen utensils.
Sorry, but Crocs are no less hideous with orchids in them than with feet!
I really like the colander/hanger hanging basket! Crocs, no.
How does the shoe bag provide drainage without staining the bag all to hell?
I dig the shoe-bag idea for something that would creep/cover the actual shoe-bag. It's ugly, but would be amazing if it appeared to be a wall of leaves...
Agree about the Asker containers. Although if you buy them used it would count. I was surprised how expensive they were in Ikea.
How very "Rhoda Morganstern".
Asker container isn't a new/brilliant/recycled/hacked idea. FAIL.
Still love the old aluminum can idea, though.
That colander idea is beautiful. What about draining all over the floor, though? I'm trying to figure out how to work it in my home...apart from putting something under it to catch the drips, any other ideas? could it be lined with something while still leaving plenty of holes open for aeration...would that have the effect of drainage? (does that make sense?)
Nikki Moore - the first thing that came to mind after reading your comment/question was to line the colander with cheesecloth. I think that a cheesecloth may perhaps be porous enough to allow for aeration, but not so porous that water would pour out through it via the sides of the colander. I think the cheesecloth might guide the extra water to the bottom of the colander where it might then drain into some sort of attached dish or something...