HOW TO MAKE FLOWER-POTS

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 19 September 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

HOW TO MAKE FLOWER-POTS

Growing Flowers Indoors

Now that spring plants are showing above the ground, many girls and boys are thinking about growing flowers and perlrsps a few vegetables in their own plots of garden. Later in the season these girls and boys will have the satisfaction of picking flowers they have watched grow day by day, and of digging their own vegetables. But flowers and plants may be grown in old tins, which can be placed on the window ledge, by the frontdoor steps or even hanging in a room.

First of all take several old tins petrol tins cut through the middle will do vry well, turn them upside down, and with a nail four inches long, pierce holes in the bottom of each tin so that the water which is given to the plants can drained off. Turn in the ragged edges round the top of the tin and

if you are going to hang the flowerpot on suspension wires, make three or four holes at equal distances round the top of the tin, through which the wires can be tied.

Many people buy a few pounds of tar, melt it down and spread it round the inside of the tins and throw band on the tar while it is still wet, so that the tins will not ruct inside and spoil the plants. But most plants will live in tins which have not been tarred, for: two or even three years, and by that time the plants ara usually so big that they have to b?. separated and movsd into other tins in any case. When your tins are quite ready, almost fill them with good loose soil, set your pi nts gently and givo them a little fresh water every day, but do not swamp them. Stand the tins in a tub while you water them, and let the water drip away before you put them back in a .room or on a window ledge. You can paint the outsides of the tins any colour you like; both orange and green are good colours. Then perhaps you could stick on halved pine cones in a line round the tin. If you chip off pieces of bark from logs of wood and glue the bark on the tins evenly, as shown in the illustration, you should be pleased with the result. The second illustration shows a quaint flower-pot that may be made from a large cocoa tin with a hole cut in its side.