Five Items You Can Recycle and Use in Your Vegetable Garden

Vegetable gardeners were green long before green went mainstream. We use the recycling of food waste for decades to store rain water in barrels, when the weather is dry and takes so many other things.

But now that the world finally caught up with the green movement, it is time for a list of items that would be overlooked, and many may consider trash can handed, but really great to use in the vegetable garden.

Cardboard egg cartons
When you buy your eggs inStyrofoam boxes then you have to change the cardboard variety. Cardboard egg cartons, except in a position to be recycled with regular cardboard can crushed and mixed in your compost and am also very seed starters. Simple small drainage holes in the bottom of each of the twelve cups of cut, fill with potting soil, add your seeds and water. Once they germinate and grow, cut about two inches, you will see the box so that you separate the cupsand then the entire complex cup.

A gallon plastic milk containers
I can give two uses for each, before including them in the recycling center. First, you rinse the container, to ensure that any residue of the milk is gone. Then fill about an inch from the top with water, put the cap back on and keep the entire container in the freezer. In about a day, you have a nice solid block of ice you can use at your next barbecue to cool the drinks. When the ice is ready to runsome lukewarm water on the outside, it dissolves the ice in the plastic pages. Take a utility knife and cut the container in the middle, thus separating the top of the container from below. To be able to remove the ice. Now take the bottom half and drill a few holes in the ground, and you have an excellent pot for flowers and plants and the top is a great defender against the cold air at night.

Reuse that old pants
Before you throw the old hose inthe trash for yourself your very own soaker hose to create. Poke lots of holes in the sides of the tube, so that when you turn on the water drips back through the holes you just created.

Tights, socks and old T-shirts
Not only do they throw in the trash, you can bind them to your plants. Tomatoes have weak stems and instead of splurging on Velcro connections can cut a couple of old socks and T-shirts and use that instead.

Newspapers
Done reading the newspaper you read this? "IsYour neighbor? Good! Newspaper makes a great weed barrier, and am also great mulch for the compost. To use as a weed barrier in your garden, lay the paper, cover with grass and wet it with your hose. To use in your compost, shredding the paper and throw it only there.

Trash is trash, if you do not think of anything. As more and more people are involved with the green movement, especially those who will plant vegetable gardens, we begin to also seemore ways to waste from our landfills.