There are many cost-effective and sustainable ways to improve your garden. Often they revolve around eco-design and plant choices. It also involves working with nature rather than fighting it and choosing gardening methods that allow you to care for people and the planet.
But in addition to thinking about methods and plants, we can also ensure that our gardens are as sustainable as possible by considering the elements we have at home. Making use of natural and reclaimed materials is a wonderful way to create a beautiful, sustainable garden without costing the planet. And if you agree, you’ll love these ideas on how to reuse glass bottles in the garden!
1. Delimiting your garden
The first idea is use the bottles to create borders in your flowerbed. With the neck down they can also be filled with water and have holes in the lids. Thus, they add thermal mass to keep temperatures stable in a growing area and can slowly release water to plants, much like the watering globes purchased for this function.
2. Paths
Another cool idea involves embedding glass bottles in the ground, bottoms up, to create unique pathways through your garden. Planting ground cover plants, such as creeping thyme, for example, between the bottles can suppress weeds and create a stunning effect.
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3. Greenhouse
They can also be incorporated into eco-built garden structures. For example, glass bottles can be built into the north face, thermal mass structure of a greenhouse. Or even be used as an alternative to greenhouse glazing in certain areas.
4. Vases
Even individual bottles can be useful in a garden – you don’t necessarily have to have a lot of them to use them in your garden. Some glass bottles can be used as vertical structures on shelves DIY.
*Via treehugger