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I love growing plants and veggies indoors, especially tomatoes. But just hate my house looking like my backyard.

In my quest for a beautiful indoor tomato garden, I came across this idea from my friend (known as dcarch) who is a creative genius. He posts frequently at TomatoVille.com.

Amazing tomato planters - From a Soda Bottle

Here is dcarch’s idea about how to create amazingly inexpensive but very attractive soda bottle tomato planters. He was gracious to share his wonderful idea and amazing photos with the readers of this blog. As you can see from the picture, these planters make excellent showpieces and are sure-fire conversation starters.

Materials needed:

1. 2 or 3 liter soda bottles - the number depends on how many tomato planters you want to make.
2. A glue gun and few sticks of hot melt glue.
3. Few old CD or DVD discs.
4. Toenail clipping scissors.
5. Spray paint of the color that appeals to you: textured or metallic sheens will look better.

Materials for the amazing tomato planter

Ready to make your tomato planter?

Here are the step-by-step instructions.

In this post we will make two tomato planters - the Bottle-Bottom Planter and the Wine-glass Planter - from a single soda bottle.

Amazing tomato planter - Step 1

Using a marker pen, carefully mark the middle of the bottle to enable cutting it into two equal halves. You can be creative and make the edge fancy if you like as shown here. Make a pilot cut using a sharp utility knife. Now, insert your toenail scissors through the pilot cut, and then cut the bottle through your mark to make it into two equal halves.

Amazing tomato planter - Step 2

You can as well as put holes on the edge of the bottle bottom planter using a paper punch.

Using a sandpaper lightly smoothen the sharp cut edges.

We will use the bottom half of the bottle to make the bottle bottom planter. The top half of the bottle will become the wine glass planter.

Making the Bottle-Bottom Tomato Planter:
 

1. Take the bottom half.
2. Spray paint with a color of your choice.
3. Always do the spray-painting outdoors or in a well-ventilated area - don’t forget to wear your masks.
4. Let the painted bottle air dry for a few hours.

Amazing tomato planter - Step 3

Voila!! You have your Bottle-Bottom Tomato Planter

Making the Wine-Cup Tomato Planter:

1. Take the top half - make sure you have the cap tightly screwed on.
2. Take a CD / DVD disc and lay it flat on your work table.
3. Using the glue gun and hot melt glue stick, drop few dabs of glue on the center of the disc.
4. Put some glue on the top of the bottle cap also.
5. Immediately join the cap to the disc - press the cap down onto the disc and hold for a few seconds until the glue is firm.
6. Optionally, to give additional weight to the bottom, you can glue another CD to the bottom disc.
7. Spray paint with a matching color of your choice and let the planter dry.

Amazing tomato planter - Step 4

You have you Wine glass Planter.

What next?

Now all you have to do is to put potting soil into your hand-made tomato planters and plant you baby plants. Miniature tomato varieties are best suited for this experiment.

My friend at TomatoVille.com has used these planters in some very interesting ways. You can also use your imagination and be creative.

Invite your guests to make their own hand-picked tomatoes for their salad.

Provide your guests self-service plant-to-mouth tomatoes at their dinner table.

Amazing tomato planter - At the dinner table

Limitations:

• As you can see, these planters make excellent showpieces as well as conversation starters. However don’t expect to grow your tomatoes on these planters year round.
• Watering: It is better not to put holes at the bottom of your planters. Hence make sure you water your plants appropriately.

For additional photos, please vist dcarch’s original post at TomatoVille.com.

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If you are excited about these planters, then please comment. Also if you are making these planters by yourself, don’t forget to post some pictures here.

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