Have you started your seeds yet?

If you plan on having a vegetable garden this summer, now would be the time to start your peppers and tomatoes, since they take a while to get going. That is exactly what we did tonight, started our jalapenos, bell peppers, and tomatoes. There are seed starter kits out there and sure, they look all fancy with their plastic trays and little balls of peat moss, but why pay for those when you can DIY your own starter pots?

I saved some cans, almond milk cartons, and to-go cups from restaurants (anything that would work well as a pot), then added some potting soil and the seeds and viola! A seed starter kit for the cost of a bag of potting soil! Make sure to label your containers, that way you know what is growing in each one.

This picture is full of DIY/reuse ideas. See the glass in the top left corner? That has some green onions growing in it. I found the idea on Pinterest, basically you take the white bulb ends of green onions that would otherwise be tossed, put them in a glass of water and they should grow. Then you just snip what you need as you need it. Pretty neat, right?

The table itself that the "pots" are on is a make-shift table made from an unused closet door and two sterilite bins. My daughter has LOTS of Legos and she really hated having to take apart her creations to get them back in the bins. So we decided she needed a table of some sort where she can play with her Legos and leave her creations out and out of the way. We looked at coffee tables, but it just seemed silly to pay $200 on a coffee table for Legos. This table, while not stylish, is definitely affordable (free!) and green since we are reusing what we have.