For so long now you've been accumulating the pretty little plant-
lets and wishing that you had pots about as wide as your window 
ledge. It's time to grab that plastic bottle that once held 3 
litres of cooking oil. 
                         
                             Heh heh!
Rinse the bottle with detergent. No need to scrub it clean at 
this point. 
Carefully cut in a straight line around the bottle at about the 
point where the bottle proper begins tapering off to the spout 
and handle.
You will end up with two pieces of plastic. The lower piece will 
be a rectangular object in each of its three dimensions. 
Your small children will immediately grab the upper part and cart 
it off to the bathtub for use as a fun-funnel. Let them. You're 
only young twice. 
Grab the next plastic bottle that once held 3 litres of 
cooking oil. Rinse the bottle with detergent. No need to scrub 
clean at this point. Carefully cut in a straight line around the 
bottle at about the point where the bottle proper begins tapering 
off to the spout and handle. Your small children are still 
amusing themselves in the bathtub, right? 
You know have two rectangular bases and one funnel-like object.
Pop all three pieces in the dishwasher and rinse off the oil 
thoroughly, or, rotate the four pieces at bathtime until two 
rectangular pieces and one funnel are as clean as you want. 
Take one rectangular tub and cut around it again, about one-third 
the way down the edge. You end up with a tub 2/3 the original 
height, and a rectangle of semi-rigid plastic.
Take the circle and cut it at two diagonal corners, making two 
right-angled walls. Make a cut half-way through each of these 
pieces, flip one, and mesh together to make a criss-cross 
platform that might just stand the weight of a small tub of soil. 
Punch holes in the bottom of one tub. Place criss-cross in the 
other tub. Place the holey tub atop the criss-cross and fill with 
soil.
Plants  etc.  etc. etc.  and place on the window-ledge. 
The second funnel? 
Like I said, you're only young twice.
Or donate it to your local day-care centre.
Remember: Every trip to the landfill site or the garbage chute is 
an admission of failure on your part!
Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com    www.interlog.com/~cgreaves
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