Earlier this week I mentioned hay bale gardening and Re-nest reader AdrienneAudrey chimed in with her own hay bale growing adventures. Upon further stalking examination of her blog, we picked up a sweet tip that utilizes all those sad and discarded fish tanks you find on Craigslist — mini green houses!
Adrienne Audrey lives in Washington and her gardening endeavors can be found over at Crafty Little Gnome. She's taken to hay bale gardening and uses that as the base for her green houses. Planting straight in the hay and topping the seedlings with a fish tank, she's created a nice warm environment to get things growing.
Even if seedling season has passed in your neck of the woods, it's still a great idea to file away for next year, or even grow an outdoor terrarium for your kids to keep an eye on while they burn some energy outside in the sun!
• Check out more on this process over at Crafty Little Gnome
Thanks Adrienne!
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I think an empty fish tank is one of the nicest sights in the world - and thanks for a way to make good use of it! :)
it is fine but if it is over 65 degrees those need to come off asap or the plants will fry!
Hey! Thanks for the feature! Yes, the tank is off for the rest of the season so the plants don't cook but it definitely helped get my little pumpkin seedlings started. I'll be using the fish tanks again in the fall and next spring!
Also useful indoors for humidity loving plants (African Violets and episcias, for example) and for starting cuttings.
I used mason jars to do this same thing. And it helped keep the creatures away from my starts before they got big enough to not get eaten back. Specifically, I used upside down wide mouth 1/2 pint jars over my cucumber seeds. I did side by side comparisons, and the 5 with jars over them are already over 2" tall and have their first true leaves. The others, sans jars, are barely 1/2" up (if even sprouting) and several of those have been eaten by I'm not sure what. I'll def. use mason jars to get some of my more tender things started next year. And since canning season hasn't really started, they were just sitting in the cupboard anyway, just a wash and sanitize and they'll be ready to use again. I am starting a fresh round of butter lettuce and am hoping they will be given a heads up with the jars.