This weekend my gardens – both my freshly planted annual flowerpots and my veggie garden faced imminent disaster: FROST! That’s right, Chicagoland’s unpredictable weather is consistent in it’s unpredictability.
At 8:00 PM Saturday night I was out in the dark in my jammies covering every annual plant in sight. It was a mad dash to save the little babies.
In the process I invented a great way to recycle your old plastic shopping bags – Flower Pot Condoms. Okay, let’s call them Flower Pot Hats….errr something.
According to Indiana University, more than 1.6 billion gallons of oil are used yearly for the production of plastic bags alone here in the United States. For gosh sakes people, find creative ways to reuse them – do the right thing.
My creative idea? See in the short video above how I saved my garden babies with some fabulous Flower Pot covers.
Make a difference today and comment below – let me know your creative ways to reuse plastic bags too!
Today’s post is a “Two For Tuesday” – this blog is on both my greening blog – www.gardeningnude.com AND my gardening blog – http://thecasualgardener.blogspot.com – ENJOY!
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I reuse vegetable & fruit shopping bags for poop scooping disposal when the local doggy waste disposal bins have no supply.
The city of Cannes (and others in Europe) in many neighbourhoods provide blue doggy poop bins with black plastic bags free to the locals. They often run out, so I keep a supply of shopping bags for those times.
Also used "kleenex boxes" make great plastic bag storage containers. They stack really well and if you find you have an excess, you can simply put them in the recycle bin.
Posted by: Anthony Howe | May 19, 2009 at 11:50 AM
That's a fantastic idea--why have I never thought of this. I guess the best ideas are the simple ones. :)
Posted by: Jennye | May 19, 2009 at 10:22 AM
That is interesting.
Posted by: Darla | May 19, 2009 at 08:21 AM