Plastic Bottle Greenhouses

by Sally on April 2, 2009

Yesterday I wrote about the ingenuity of gardeners to take discarded items and put them to good use.  Turns out I hadn’t seen anything…..

Forget 10 green bottles and sitting them on a wall. In this world of thinking big grab yourself 1500 and build a greenhouse.

plastic bottle greenhouseYou’ll need to know a lot of not so secret lemonade drinkers but when you have your haul you’ll have the key building material from which to construct a 6ft by 8ft greenhouse.

Thanks to the Guardian for highlighting this feat of Scottish engineering.  A schools project run in association with REAP.

If you decide it’s for you there’s a  free ‘how to build it’ step by step guide  available.

If life gives you lemonade bottles…….

Photo by Ewan McIntosh

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andrew douse April 11, 2009 at 8:31 am

If you want to see annother version of a plastic bottle greenhouse take a look at my squidoo page at http://www.squidoo.com/plasticbottlegreenhouse
This is the no bamboo canes version (and therefore cheaper to build!) you use wire looped around the frame instead and slot the bottles in.

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