Upcycling a Wine Bottle to a Plant Nanny

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***Sorry for the delay in my blogging! I've been away. But I have a helpful travel tip for you all***

As I prepared to leave home for 3 weeks I needed a way to keep my plants healthy. I'm aware of the Aqua Globes and a few other watering solutions but I needed something that would last at least the first week or so {unfortunately I know for a fact that my plants can all last close to 2 week without watering... sometimes they're not high on my priority list.}

Here are a few options from Amazon.

Aqua Globes

Aqua Cone

I recalled seeing a wine bottle used for watering during one of my many searches for ways to recycle bottles. I read a few articles where bloggers created their own plant nannies from bottles but they all said the water was gone within the first day. I needed something with a little more time release effect. So here's my own solution.

I put my thinking cap on.... I grabbed a few extra bottles and corks. I drilled a small hole using 1/4 inch drill bit into the corks.

Filled up the wine bottles with water and pushed the corks back in. Next I thoroughly watered my plants {this will help keep all the water in the bottle from rushing out to feed your thirsty plant}.

I dug a little hole in the dirt and shoved them in upside down of course. I used two bottles for my ficus tree just to make sure it would have enough water.

I think I might just leave them in there. My plants seem much happier this way!

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