I have a typical city garden which is long and thin. As I am on the
top of a hill, and the garden slopes down and sideways,my vegetable
patches needed edging to stop the top soil washing away.
Rather than paying lots of money for pretty edging I asked friends and
neighbours to contribute empty wine bottles which do the job
wonderfully well.
I have four beds, each of which take about 70 bottles, so you learn a
lot about your friends' tastes in wine.
One such friend asked if I only wanted green bottles as he had blue
ones.
I took two, which he asked be placed far away from one another. Why, I
asked. The reply was that two blue bottles placed together would breed
like flies!!!!
These bottles have been in place for over 10 years and have been
colonised with ferns. They also collect water in the dimples and the
birds love to drink from them.
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clayangel_sc 24 months ago | reply
Great use for those bottles. I love the beautiful bits of color but also the extra that the water collects in the dimples for the birds and that you were blessed with bonus plantage inside the bottles as well. Bravo on an idea very well executed.
Gerla Brakkee 17 months ago | reply
Wish I would have found this earlier! Great idea!!
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Earthgarden 13 months ago | reply
Awesome idea!
Sherry Schmidt 13 months ago | reply
Neat!