How to Make Garden Container Using Soda Can

DIY Garden Container - Soda Can

Almost anything can be used as a container in your garden…
Your imagination is your only limitation…

This has almost become a cliche for it can be heard from every gardener or read in every book of container gardening.

Yet, nevertheless, it’s so true.  In fact, this is what make container gardening so much fun.  We can just be creative and playful and use whatever material we have on hand to make containers into certain sizes, colors, functions that suit our specific needs and styles.

And yesterday, I tried to make a container with a soda can.  I have especially chosen a can of coke light for I like how its silver and red match nicely with the little beet I bought earlier.

Here is how I made the soda can container

DIY Garden Container - Soda Can First, I compared the size of the soda can, the beet, and the pot to determine how big of a container should I make (e.g. how deep should I make the cut, etc).

DIY Garden Container - Soda Can Since I couldn’t find a pair of scissors sharp enough, I used a hand pruner to cut the can.

DIY Garden Container - Soda Can Then, with a pliers, I bent and rolled down the pieces one-by-one (sometimes, it could be easier by just using hands).

DIY Garden Container - Soda Can I poked 3 holes at the bottom of the can for adequate drainage.  While I did this after all the cutting and bending, I would suggest you to do this first, before anything else.  It will make life a bit easier for you.

DIY Garden Container - Soda Can Put a piece of landscape fabric at the bottom of the can to keep the soil from washing through the drainage hole.

DIY Garden Container - Soda Can Next, I carefully took out the beet…

DIY Garden Container - Soda Can and loosened up it’s root a bit.

DIY Garden Container - Soda Can Before putting in the beet and soil, I put in some horticultural charcoal for better drainage (Perlite or vermiculite works just as well).

DIY Garden Container - Soda Can After filling up the can with soil, I watered the beet and it’s done.

DIY Garden Container - Soda CanI probably can keep this cool-looking coke light beet on my desk as a table decoration for a few weeks. When the plant overgrows the soda can, it’s time for me to repot it and find it a new, bigger home 🙂

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