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Make Lightweight Large Garden Containers for Planting or Party Displays

October 15, 2015 By Amy 5 Comments

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How to make lightweight large garden containers or planters that you can use for planting, holiday and party displays. This simple tip can be used in a variety of ways whether you are gardening or planning a bash.

I spied a super cool large garden container tip most recently when I was helping my friend Judy move. Among her many talents, she’s quite the green thumb. When she gave me the chore of emptying the dirt and summer blooms out one of her large plant containers, “but leave the plastic bottles in the bottom,” I came back with a, “say what?”

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How to easily make lightweight large garden containers and planters

Did you know that there’s a benefit to filling a large planter, bucket, or barrel with empty plastic bottles before you fill it with the intended items? You not only save on the cost of filler material (ie: planting soil), but it helps keep the container more light weight?

This was a new one on me. Is this a new one on you? Or have you been using this trick in your garden, too?

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Since I felt like I just had an a-ha moment, and since Judy sent me home with this awesome rustic bushel barrel…

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I thought I’d make a fall vignette pumpkin display knowing I’d be using much less hay than it appeared.

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And my barrel would be much lighter weight. Because now, I was privy to one of the secrets of creating fall displays with large garden containers!

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fall-display-barrel-pumpkinsNot just for seasonal, wedding, and party displays either. But gardening container’s, too.

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I was amazed at how well my summer planter did using the plastic bottle trick.

I stated out with so few plants for this 4th of July summer container.

“Crowd the pot”, is the saying, but I didn’t buy enough plants for a crowd.

Nevertheless, the flowers liked sharing the container with the bottles.

I had to water daily the first week or two. After that, I’ve only had to water it a few times a week.

How to make a large garden container look full | tip for using large display containers | stowandtellu.com

And again, the planter and plastic bottles were used for our flower and herb container planting for 2017.

Right on Judy, thanks for the tip!

This post was update on 8/21/19

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Filed Under: Garden & Outdoor, Holiday Ideas Tagged With: Autumn and Fall, I Spy, Quick Tips, Summer and Outdoors

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Comments

  1. Anne@DesignDreams says

    October 15, 2015 at 7:55 am

    Very cute Amy! I love that half barrel!!!!!

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  2. chris aka monkey says

    October 15, 2015 at 9:46 am

    what a great tip and it looks so fally ha ha xx

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  3. Feral Turtle says

    October 15, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    I love this. So pretty Amy. I always fill my planters with leftover Styrofoam…..unfortunately I don’t seem to have that talent of staging like you do. Mine just sit with dirt in them. Maybe you should hop a plane and come decorate for me…lol. What a great score. I love those barrel planters.

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    July 11, 2016 at 5:44 am

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  2. 4th of July Ideas for decorating outdoor space says:
    July 16, 2016 at 1:12 am

    […] Try this tip, if you are planting or filling large containers in your outdoor decorating. […]

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