How to Craft Plastic Net Bags into Green Recycled Houseplant Holders

I am one of those people who keeps running out of pots and table space for my massive houseplant collection. Out of desperation one day, I grabbed one of those small plastic net bags that fruits and vegetables come in from the grocery store and worked it into a hanging flowerpot holder. I love it!

The small plastic net bags are strong enough to hold a potted plant, but delicate enough to almost give the impression that your plant and under-plate are floating on thin air beside the window. These plastic net bag flowerpot holders went together very quickly for me. Here is what I am doing:

Supplies:

Plastic Net Bag

Thin Wire (A long celery tie with the paper stripped off works.)

3 or 4 long pieces of clear plastic fishing line

Step One: I am using a red plastic net bag that squishes down to about the size of a drinking straw that is 15-inches long. The red color plastic net bag goes very well with plain terracotta colored flower pots. These plastic net bags come in all kinds of colors. Choose the plastic net bag color that is the best color match to your flowerpot.

Step Two: I am using some old 7-inch to 8-inch sized luncheon plates as my water catchers. My pots are 6-inch to 8-inch across the top terracotta. The plastic net bags will stretch to hold all kinds of sizes of plants and under-plates, your sizes do not have to match mine. I just really like the way that the larger under-plates look while hanging.

Step Three: Center your under-plate in the bottom of your plastic net bag. At the top of your plastic net bag quickly lace wire that is bigger than your flowerpot rim through the holes; there is no reason to be neat, this will be hidden. Center your flowerpot on top of the under-plate in the plastic net bag.

Step Four: Roll the wired edge of your plastic net bag down in tight rolls until it is around the top rim of your flowerpot. Stand back and look at your pot. If you want some pretty colored glass object or pretty glass chunks sitting on your under-plate to catch the sun, put them into your plastic net bag now.

Step Five: Poke around at your rolled wire rim of the plastic net bag until you can get the wire ends through the net so that they are now on the outside of the wire roll. I poke with my finger until I feel the end and then wiggle it out. You may think of a better way to do this. Twist your wire ends together as hard as you can so that the plastic net bag is holding tightly around the rim of the flowerpot.

Step Six Optional: If you believe that your rolled rim needs a little more beautification, you can sew it into a very strong neatly rolled shape with thread or clear fishing line. Keep sewing over the whole rolled rim in a looping kind of stitch, pulling tight as you go, all of the way around your wired rim on your plastic net bag.

Step Seven: Tie 3 or 4 pieces clear plastic fishing line onto the plastic net bag rolled rim around the top of your flowerpot to hang your plant with. Knot these together at the top. A quick wave of a lighter over the knot will melt the knot into a solid knot. Hang and enjoy.