101 uses for a plastic milk container

[savoyard]

A bird-seed scoop
A clothes peg holder (drill some holes in the bottom)
A food sachet tidy in the pantry
A funnel http://www.justfortheloveofit.org/home
A bailer for recycling bathwater
A sterilising tray for bee-hive tools

Savoyard

[crowsashes]

i use the 1 and 2 pint milk containers to freeze soups. ( handy when defrosting them)

[pelmetman]

We sometimes use the 2 pint ones as cane toppers in the garden. Not very pretty but do the job.
Sue

[liskeardjane]

I cut mine in half and grow plants in them, i use the top half to stick into pots or hanging baskets and water direct to the roots

[Thomzo]

Cut them up to make plant labels.
Keep the caps. Pop them in your baskets and tubs to make little dishes that hold the water. I had a hanging pot that I forgot about for a week and it survived.
Use to freeze home-made fruit juice, whey for bread making.
Use as a shaker when making sauces or pancake batter.
Prick holes in the top, fill with water, and use as an emergency watering can complete with hose (you do have to squeeze it quite hard).
Use to store wormery liquor, they sit under the tap of the wormery quite well.

Zoe

[JessieMac]

I cut the bottoms off the 4pt size and made a hole in the top and bottom of the handle,placed them over my bean and pea seedlings and pushed a short cane through the holes in the handle and into the ground,kept the frost off them and totally stoped the mice eating them and didn't loose a plant this year.

[Green Aura]

Sounds interesting Jessie but I can't quite visualise the holes and canes bit - any chance of a pic?

[JessieMac]

I will make one and Dennis will work out how to post a pic...................it would take me till spring to do it myself.

[JessieMac]

Green Aura The only way that Dennis can find to put the photo on the forum is to use Photobucket or Picasa and he doesn't want to create an account with either,do you know if there is any other way to post a photo?

[Helsbells]

As a homework task I got my pupils to make characters from there milk bottle heads, I got captain Jack Sparrow, Lady Gaga, The Mad Hatter, Ali G, They were really cool, here a re some pics from a websitre (not the ones my pupils made.)
http://www.twottodo.co.uk/plasticmilkbottle.html

[battybird]

We use the bottom half as a sawdust scoop for the composting loo. The top half (lid removed) buried in the soil next to the tomatoes and makes a good watering reservoire. we ran out of pipe and that was all there was...seems to work quite well! Have also used them as mini cloche with bottom cut off... good idea to stake them though Jessie! Will try that next time