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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Comments

  1. wow great idea I'm so going to try this thanks for sharing

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  2. Great idea...it is definitely worth a try!

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  3. Hi, love the creativity! My hubby suggested that for smaller plants you might be able to use a soy sauce bottle with the stopper thing in and not have to drill any holes. I haven't tested this yet, but though I would pass his idea on. =)

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    1. Awesome idea! I actually thought about the individual serving, mini wine bottles you see at the store but I think they have a screw cap not the cork.

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  4. that sounds good for individual indoor plants....but gotta adjust for outdoor beds

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  5. I love this idea! We are planning on being gone for vacation in October and I was wondering what to do about my balcony plants...this may be the solution! :)

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  6. A plant nanny - cool name!
    Great idea that I never would have thought of!
    Thanks for linking up this week!
    Stacey of Embracing Change

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    1. My ficus tree (in the picture) had 2 bottles and lasted for 4 weeks.

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  8. I just saw this one Hometalk. I am so excited; I finally have a use for my barefoot, flip flop, beach house, sea glass wine bottles!! Great idea, thank you so much for sharing! I'm doing this today.
    ~pat

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  9. im going away for 2 weeks vacation and i can't thank you enough for your tutorial you just save my precious garden !

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  10. Did you actually mean a 1/4 inch drill bit or just a 1/4 inch drill? What was the actual size of the bit? (1/4 inch bit is the largest a 1/4 drill will take.)

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  11. Love the idea! And I'm going to be making some. For smaller plants, I think beer bottles could be a good substitute....don't have any beer so I don't know if the wine corks will fit properly or not.

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  12. You can buy single beers with corks in them, just go to a specialty liquor store.

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  13. Great idea...I will try this for sure for my deck plants. Thanks for sharing.

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  14. Great idea...I will try this for sure for my deck plants. Thanks for sharing.

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