Hey Hibiscusfan,
Happy New Year!
Here's a link to my flickr photos which shows that method. Click on the winter sowing album. I like this way, only because it's the fastest I've found. VJhale came up with this brilliant idea.
I prep a slew of jugs at a time. I have a pair of really pointy, smaller scissors that I use to poke 4 drainage holes in the bottom. Then a quick 3/4 around cut about halfway up the side of the jug and it's ready for soil. When you place them outside, face two jugs with the oven doors toward each other and that helps keep them closed more. Good luck!

Shore p.s. Hey GGG! Happy New Year

Hey Hibiscusfan,
Happy New Year!
Here's a link to my flickr photos which shows that method. Click on the winter sowing album. I like this way, only because it's the fastest I've found. VJhale came up with this brilliant idea.
I prep a slew of jugs at a time. I have a pair of really pointy, smaller scissors that I use to poke 4 drainage holes in the bottom. Then a quick 3/4 around cut about halfway up the side of the jug and it's ready for soil. When you place them outside, face two jugs with the oven doors toward each other and that helps keep them closed more. Good luck!

Shore p.s. Hey GGG! Happy New Year

Hey Hibiscusfan,
Happy New Year!
Here's a link to my flickr photos which shows that method. Click on the winter sowing album. I like this way, only because it's the fastest I've found. VJhale came up with this brilliant idea.
I prep a slew of jugs at a time. I have a pair of really pointy, smaller scissors that I use to poke 4 drainage holes in the bottom. Then a quick 3/4 around cut about halfway up the side of the jug and it's ready for soil. When you place them outside, face two jugs with the oven doors toward each other and that helps keep them closed more. Good luck!

Shore p.s. Hey GGG! Happy New Year

Hey Hibiscusfan,
Happy New Year!
Here's a link to my flickr photos which shows that method. Click on the winter sowing album. I like this way, only because it's the fastest I've found. VJhale came up with this brilliant idea.
I prep a slew of jugs at a time. I have a pair of really pointy, smaller scissors that I use to poke 4 drainage holes in the bottom. Then a quick 3/4 around cut about halfway up the side of the jug and it's ready for soil. When you place them outside, face two jugs with the oven doors toward each other and that helps keep them closed more. Good luck!

Shore p.s. Hey GGG! Happy New Year

Here is a link that might be useful: oven door milk jugs

Their could be several ways. I've been teaching people to use a soldering iron to burn a hole in the top and bottom of the jugs in the front near the seam and tie them together. This seems to work just fine.

I was just coming to post on this. Quiltingfox posted some photos on the Round Robin Exchange on how she cuts her jugs ("Quiltingfox's method"). Can somebody tell me if I need to tape when I cut this way? Quiltingfox, are you reading, by any chance?

Thanks!
Deanna

Here is a link that might be useful: How Quiltingfox cuts jugs

Thanks everybody I will try each way and see which I like best. This is my second year of wintersowing. Last year only about half of my seed came up but I think my containers were the fault. The milk jugs worked the best. Now to get busy doing milk jug surgery!

What I do is start right near the handle of the jug, and cut around until I get to the handle again. I use a hole puncher to punch 2 holes in the top & bottom, and use a twist-tie or a piece of wire through the holes to keep the jug closed. I can still pick the jug up by the handle and move it around this way, plus it makes taking the top on & off much, much easier!

The first couple of years, I used mainly 2L soda bottles, but then DH quit drinking soda, so I had to switch to milk jugs last year. The first few I taped the flap closed, but when the temperatures warmed up, and I took the tape off to increase the ventilation during the day, I decided that the tape wasn't really necessary anyway.

I do my flaps the opposite direction from Shorgrowin

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and once you fold the flap back down, it stays in place pretty well. Maybe if I lived somewhere that got a lot of rain, I might feel the need to tape it closed, but most of our precipitation falls in the form of snow. Mayblooms idea of punching a hole in both halves and closing with a wire or twist-tie sounds pretty good too.

Bonnie