{"id":17750,"date":"2014-01-18T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T21:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17750"},"modified":"2014-01-18T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T21:41:19","slug":"drip-tray-for-indoor-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/18\/drip-tray-for-indoor-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Drip Tray for Indoor Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/IMG_7834.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Drip tray made from the bottom 4&quot; of a silver plastic five gallon bucket from Lowe's.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/105607-2\/IMG_7834.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have a number of plants being kept indoors for the winter, one of which is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laurus_nobilis\">bay tree<\/a>. This afternoon Danielle repotted it into something larger to get it ready for spring time, but this new pot didn&#8217;t have a drip tray, which makes keeping it on the carpeted living room floor a bit problematic. After heading to a local home improvement store to get a drip tray I found that the offerings there were not satisfactory. A cheap ($2) drip trays was so thin that I&#8217;d have been able to tear it, and a thicker one (think soda bottle wall thickness) was $4+.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of either of these I purchased a cheap, store-brand silver plastic bucket and cut off the bottom 4&#8243; to make a different style tray. This was only around $3 and is much, much better than the pre-made trays. I was also able to size it for a narrow gap so that any collected water won&#8217;t evaporate too quickly and will serve to keep watering the plant.<\/p>\n<p>I feel a bit wasteful throwing out the plastic from the upper half, but I don&#8217;t have much use for a segmented, ridged plastic hoop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a number of plants being kept indoors for the winter, one of which is a bay tree. This afternoon Danielle repotted it into&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/18\/drip-tray-for-indoor-plants\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drip Tray for Indoor Plants<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17751,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17750\/revisions\/17751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}