Sun boxes and our Herb Gardens

For our last week of horticulture we made sunboxes and we designed our very own plant pots using just newspaper the aim of these plant pots was to help us start to grow our very own herb gardens.

Sunboxes 

We made sunboxes to help our plants grow indoors during the harsh Irish winters. The sunboxes were so easy to make and our perfect if you live in a small area , but you still want to grow your own herbs and plants. We made our sunboxes out of a cardboard box, tinfoil, and masking tape, so simple right ?
heres how we made them :

1. first of all we cut two diagonal triangles off the two thin sides of the cardboard box.
2. then we covered the whole inside of the box in tinfoil, this is to reflect the light and help the plants grow.
3. we stuck the tinfoil with masking tape and pritt stick, we had to make sure that the masking tape did not show because it would prevent the reflection of light. 

Plant Pots

We made our plant pots so we could grow our very own herbs indoors for the winter, they were so easy to make and they would suit any sort of living space. We made our plant pots out of newspaper, masking tape and a regular plastic bottle.
heres how we made them :

1. we cut six strips of newspaper , then one by one we wrapped them tightly around the bottle.
2. after the third, fifth and sixth strip we put on a strip of masking tape to keep them in place.
3. we then folded up the corners of the newspaper at the end of the bottle, we then carefully slid the bottle out form between the newspaper.
4. we then filled the newspaper pot with soil and ploped a few seeds in and there you have it, your very own plant pot.