Each spring we plant a new garden at our home and last year we bought a bunch of herbs and a few vegetables from a local nursery for our herb garden. The rest of the herb garden was created from propagated herbs from the rest of the yard. The soil for last year’s garden was compost that I made from waste wood scraps from our job sites that I use as mulch. It took a couple of years for it to decompose, but it worked really well as compost!
In addition to the mulch pile we started a compost bin for yard waste and food scraps. The bottom of the pile is full of worms and the mulch is ready for next cycle of life.
Unfortunately, the place where we bought the live herbs is no longer there since we are in a severe drought and it could not sustain business. Earlier this month, I was checking on the herb garden and most of the plants are doing well in spite of the frost. The rosemary, thyme, sage are still alive however the basil died since it is an annual. I pulled all of them up to put in the compost pile and collected the seeds in an effort to see if they would grow indoors.
From previous posts you can see that I am also trying to find new and interesting ways to re-purpose trash. The same day that I collected the seeds, I noticed that we were almost out of eggs. This looked like the perfect container for me to try to grow the seeds! I cut the lid off, got some soil from the bottom of the compost bin and planted the seeds. To insure that the water would drain out I cut a hole in each egg holder and used the lid as a drain pan to catch all of the excess water. By using waste trash to hold the seeds, compost from lasts year’s garden, and seeds from lasts year’s garden we managed to get new basil plants at no cost!
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You can see that each egg holder is the perfect size for a starter plant. I put the seeds in soil and in less than a week I noticed sign of new life. You can see the Basil poking through the compost.
The lid needs to be cut off so the sun can reach the new leaves. The lid then gets placed under the carton so it can catch the water from the holes. Make sure that you put the container in direct sunlight so they can grow. I have to water mine every other day to keep the soil moist as well.
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what a great way to recycle, can’t wait to grow some seeds
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