7 Reused Items to Boost Your Garden

4. Wine bottle hydro-plants

Many plants thrive when completely immersed in water. Here, a juvenile agave plant (left) and a common pothos plant (right).

Earth911.com has featured plenty of ways to reuse old beer and wine bottles. For your home garden, another way to reuse wine bottles is to make water planters out of them.

How to do it:

1. Rinse wine bottles and fill with water.

2. With scissors, cut at a portion of stem where there are few leaves (you might have to take off some leaves from the stem).

3. Put leafless portion of stem in water.

4. Watch beautiful roots begin to grow!

5. Stylish cinder blocks

Here, an aloe is planted in a cinder block. Mint is also a good candidate for cinder block planting because it can get out of control and become a weed problem if planted in the ground.

Too few cinder blocks to complete an entire project but enough that they are taking up space in the shed? Wondering what you could do with the extra blocks? Make planters out of them!

How to do it:

1. Turn cinder block to its upright position. Place block in desired spot in garden/ landscape.

2. Fill hole(s) of cinder block with soil. Place herb plants, flowers, aloe, agave, or other desired plant in cinder block planter.

3. Water well to ensure soil is moist, and marvel at achievement!