Recycled welly planters
Plants don’t always have to be grown in pots. Here’s a way to decorate your garden and reuse your old wellies!
To get started, you’ll need:
- Old wellies
- Stones
- Compost
- Flower plants or small herbs (we’ll be using thyme for our how-to, but you can use whatever you want)
Step 1: Create drainage
- Wash the wellies with warm soapy water and let them dry
- Before you can add flowers, you’ll need to make sure that water can escape from the boots
- Ask an adult to drill some small holes in the sole of your wellies
- Then add a few stones at the bottom of each shoe
Step 2: Planting
- Add compost to your boots and press down gently – make sure you get it right down to the toe
- Leave some space at the top for your plant
- Make a hole for your thyme plant and place it inside the boot - press down to make it tight
- Make sure it’s watered well
Step 3: Care and harvesting
- Thyme loves a sunny spot and doesn’t need much watering
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It will need trimmed after it flowers – this helps it regrow
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You can pick thyme all year round and it smells great!
If you have a go at this activity, we’d love to see your welly planters. Share a picture of your colourful creations on social using #DobbiesLittleSeedlings and tag us.
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