I made a planter out of an old butter container and I am very happy with it. I used Morning Glories I picked from the yard, they are everywhere, but you could do this with anything, even tomatoes?
Clean out a butter container and cut a small silver dollar sized hole in the bottom of it, you can adjust it later. Put several Morning Glory leaves through the hole, roots facing the open side of the butter container. Hold them in place this way, and put dirt over them. Hold the roots in about two inches and pour the dirt over that. Make sure the plant is pretty much anchored into the dirt by very SOFTLY pulling on it and seeing that it is secure. Put Moonflower seeds in the top of the container and they will grow out of the top of the planter. The Moonflowers will bloom at night and the Morning Glories will bloom in the morning.
I hung these with the long twisty ties, but I could have hung them with anything else I had around. I always use recycled materials. I made my planter hole too big so I criss-crossed masking tape up and down and then taped over it along the sides of the butter container. I like the bright colors. I use this tape on my walking sticks that I make out of pruned branches from our trees and I make the kids use them when they walk to help let traffic see them.
By Robyn Fed from Hampton, TN
