One of the best gardening tools may be in the home recycling bin, said University of Missouri Extension horticulturist Donna ...

Now all you need to do is wait and watch the plants in your mini greenhouse grow! The post How to Start Plants in Mini ‘Milk Jug Greenhouses’ appeared first on Taste of Home.

You can take a milk jug and create a funnel in a pinch or give young plants a head start by transforming the jug into a mini-greenhouse. So, rather than letting your used milk jugs fill your ...

Left to their own accord, seeds would drop to the ground in late summer or autumn, survive winter, then germinate when the soil and air temperatures are optimal. So why not mimic nature by creating ...

"Or you can fill several jugs with warm water and place ... And even if you have a greenhouse, you can still make use of your milk cartons. They can be converted into thermal mass heaters when ...

Students started some of the native seeds in empty milk jugs that were left outside, collecting rain and snow through the open tops of the containers. Others were planted in the greenhouse after a ...