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A Planter I Made From a Coconut Shell
By Janet Jenson
A hopeless re-user of useful things, I had been carrying a coconut shell around for years. It was in the bottom of a box of gardening supplies that started out in the San Francisco Bay Area and followed us to Arizona, and now it is in Southern Californa and so am I. Time to put it into use. So I got out my Dremel and drilled three holes in one half of the shell and put some twine through to make a handle. Nature had put a drain hole in the bottom already, so all that was left to do was to put a layer of sphagnum moss and some potting soil in the cavity and plant something. Not sure if the deep shade on my back porch would sustain any kind of plant life, I chose for this experiment an already rooted stem cutting from a neighbor's Swedish Ivy plant. She calls it Creeping Charlie. But after finding some real Creeping Charlie of the weed variety trying to play Atlas with the slabs of concrete in my driveway, I decided to discover the the real name for this houseplant (Plectranthus verticullatis)and to find out if it is edible. It is. This little hanging planter will keep the gophers out of my salad munchies. But will it put an end to this cloudy weather and bring the sun back?
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Contributor's Note
Although the leaves of this plant are edible, not all people should eat them, and as with all plants that may contain high levels of oxalic acid (spinach, purslane, rhubarb, and more), moderation is a good idea. In small quantities, I think they make a tasty and nutritious addition to a salad. They have a nice texture, too.
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Keeping the gophers out of my salad greens.
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Cooool! And I thought the only thing they were good for is bras. 
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CONTRIBUTOR'S REPLY
Hmmm, maybe I should rename my blog "The Empty Cabinets of my Coconut Shells."
Cool! I have some coconut shells I've been saving too. I have been thinking of making bowl from them, but your idea is much more original! My collection is getting a bit too unwieldy so I'd better do something with them soon. How did you get the top (cut) edge so even? I cracked mine open with a hammer and the edge is really jagged. Interesting about the houseplant being edible. It's funny but I never thought of checking to see if my houseplants were edible or not. I know a lot of them are definitely poisonous. So what does the Swedish Ivy taste like?
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