5 Easy Steps to a Small Garden

Jeanne Johnson Ortego
by Jeanne Johnson Ortego
4 Materials
$12
2 Hours
Easy
I chose to make a small container garden using worn out children's rubber boots. It's important to note that no children were deprived of rubber boots. I waited until they were sent to the Pound Store, then waited another week before purchasing any of these boots.
First I gathered children's rubber boots that I'd bought at the Pound Store as I saw them during the Fall and Winter. I was saving them for just such a challenge.
2. Then I cut drainage holes in the soles. This was the hardest and most time consuming part of the process. It was physically difficult, not mentally challenging.
I made the holes with a box cutter. So that I wouldn't cut a big hole in my thigh, because I always seem to cut towards myself rather than away, I put a flexible wooden placemat on my leg.


You also need to cut a hole in the lining of the boot, if it has one.
It helps to remove the insoles first!
3. Stuff the toes and bottoms with newspaper or landscape fabric so that no soil escapes. Because the holes are in the arches, the heels keep them high enough to drain.
4 & 5: Add soil and flowers.
Pretty in Pink.
Have fun displaying them!
I made a small vignette around my front door, which I never use. I wanted to put up a sign that says, "Please Go Around. The doorbell doesn't work, but you're welcome to wait. We are."
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  • 2177116953 2177116953 on May 12, 2018

    cute idea. Wouldn't the newspaper disintegrate,

    leaving the soil to seep thru the holes?

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