Grow It
Keep fresh herbs at hand all winter long with these tin can planters.
Raise your own indoor herbs with a few tins and a can-do attitude.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
3 recycled soup cans
3 herb plants
Potting soil
Burlap ribbon, extra-wide Burlap lace ribbons, various
widths
3 flat wood ovals
Jute twine
3 oval stickers, black
Card stock scraps
3 wood skewers
Metal pie plate
Small decorative rocks
Drill
Hot glue gun
Craft glue
Fine-point paint pen, white
DIRECTIONS
1. Remove labels from empty cans. Wash the cans with soap and water, removing any label residue. 2. Drill a small hole through the bottom of each can to provide drainage. Repot each plant in a can, adding potting soil as needed. 3. Wrap a piece of extra-wide ribbon around each can; overlap ends. Fold overlapping edge under to create a hem; hot-glue ends together. 4. Wrap a piece of lace ribbon around the wide ribbon on each can, varying the lace widths among the cans, and glue as in Step 3, positioning overlapped ends over the previous ends. 5. Trace wood oval on wide burlap ribbon and cut out 3 burlap ovals. Using craft glue, adhere a burlap oval to each wood oval, matching the edges. Trim edges to neaten, if needed. 6. Hot-glue a border of twine around the edge of each burlap oval for a finished look. 7. For each plant marker, use the paint pen to write an herb name on a sticker. Attach sticker to a card stock scrap, and trim card edge even with sticker. Hot-glue sticker assembly to the center of a burlap oval. 8. Hot-glue the blunt end of a skewer to the back of each assembled herb marker. Let the markers dry completely. 9. Place plants in pie plate. Add markers. Arrange rocks around cans in pie plate as desired.