If your idea of the perfect garden is a drift of lush greenery nestled inside a picket fence, you don't need to wait till summer to get it. This picket planter with popcorn plants is as easy to make as popcorn itself.
| Prep Time: About 2 to 3 hours | |
| What you need: | |
| Wooden clementine box
Wooden clothespins Wooden beads Glue Latex semigloss wall paint Plastic seedling trays Potting soil Popcorn kernels | |
| Seasons: Year round | |
| Materials: clothespin, paints | |
| Instructions: | |
| 1. | The planter's base is a wooden clementine box. We glued a line of wooden clothespins to the top edge, and wooden beads atop the corner posts and the adjacent clothespins. |
| 2. | Once the glue was dry, we gave the planter two coats of paint (we used latex semigloss wall paint). |
| 3. | We set plastic seedling trays--easily removed for watering--inside the box and filled each to an inch from the top with potting soil. |
| 4. | We then sprinkled on popcorn kernels (not the microwave
kind) and covered them with another half inch of soil.
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| 5. | We kept the soil moist, and our corn was up in about a
week. The greenery lasted for several weeks more.
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