I started this out think I might use Gemini to put this blog post together. AI is so fantastic and all. I uploaded my photo and let Gemni do it’s thing.
While it came up with what looked like an impressive report, it was unusable with lots of ten dollar words that, while I know what they mean, I wouldn’t use them for a blog post.
I like to keep things as simple as possible, most of the time. Sometimes the scientific names are required to get a point across, but not often enough that I concern myself with using them.
This is a simple post for a simple project that I hope others will find helpful.
So here we go.
I made this by cutting the bottom from a tea bottle. I don’t normally reuse the bottom but since my potting soil seems to dry out, I thought I’d give this a try.
Trying to sprout lettuce so I can have fresh lettuce while I wait impatiently for spring to arrive. I’d tried a living lettuce from Walmart but I think they leave just enough roots so it might last a bit longer than if it had no roots at all.
I sprouted a red globe grape seed a couple weeks ago, there was about six seeds but only one wanted to grow.
Red globe grape sprout.
Hopefully the grape will be big enough to plant outdoors in early speing but I have no idea how quickly, or slowly they grow.
The top part plugs into the 4″ pot snugly, so if you decide to make be aware it takes a bit of effort to get it together.
After seeds sprout the lid comes off so the plants can breath. I’ve only started doing this a while ago so I’m anxious to see how this works out.
I’ve also come up with a way to make pots for planting in from these bottles well. I’ll share that sometime down the road. It’s slightly more involved than this project but not difficult.
If wanted too, you could just cut the bottle in half and use the bottom as the pot and slide the top back onto or perhaps into the bottom instead of using a 4″ pot.
I just happen to have a fair amount of pots to use.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and good luck in all your ventures!
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