Handy Dandy tip for your new sprouts...

[Lavender]

Here's a gardening "do" for anyone with new sprouts...

You can make mini green houses for your new sprouts by cutting the bottoms off those plastic 1 gallon (or 1 litre if you're Canadian) milk jugs. Take the lid off & place over your new little sprouts or seeds. This way, you won't be surprised by any late frost.

:) I've got a great crop of milk jugs in my garden right now.

[*ULA*]

that's a really good idea.. drink up, everybody! i need your jugs! wait.. that didn't sound right... ;)

[ruthie]

Thank you, my desk is looking a little weighted at the moment with all the plants I am having to keep inside!

[BearDancing]

clear 2 litre pop bottles with the bottoms cut out are great too

[Lavender]

Yeah, those are the best to use but we never drink enough pop to have enough of them & besides, I always hated to waste the deposits. :D

[Yvonne Belisle]

This is another one we should be thinking about :)

[Pan]

This is a great idea! I know hubby and I go through a lot of milk.

I've also found, when starting plants indoors, that draping a wal Mart bag over them can do as a mini-greenhouse thing rather than buying those pre-made plastic greenhouses.

[Pan]

I don't know why it posted twice.. but I'll make an entirely new post!

Would 1-litre bottles of pop work, too, you think? We buy a lot of those rather than 2-litres.

[MoonRaven]

We don't get milk in jugs here (it comes in bags... yes, bags), so we use old pop bottles too. The nice thing about them is that you can cut one in half and get two little greenhouses out of them (if you poke holes in the bumps of the bottom anyway), and you can reuse them every year. Isn't that worth whatever money you'd get from returning them?
(we don't get that here anyway - everything just goes in the recycling bin)

[Lavender]

Another thing that I've used too are those light clear bags that you buy veggies in...some of them are ventilated and you can drape them over sticks.

This winter, I wrapped my outdoor plants with bubble wrap that they were throwing out at work. I just put a tomato cage around the plant and wrap the plastic around the cages. Bubble wrap insulates really well.