During an Austin Organic Gardener's meeting, the speaker, Lucinda Hutson, showed a cool slide show featuring her use of glass bottles to edge a garden bed. She even used cork as mulch, and I thought this would be a great way to use our excess wine bottles and corks.
Here's my interpretation of the wine bottle edging project starting with prepping the bottles.
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| Removing Bottle Foil Ring |
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| Rinsing Bottles to Remove Labels |
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| Clean Bottles Ready for the Garden |
With the stone removed, my darling assistant dug a trench to accommodate the bottles. I was going to help, but someone had to take pictures, right?
After placing the bottles in the trench, we packed soil tightly on both the front and back sides of the bottles. Fortunately, we had some soggy soil that had been left in a wheelbarrow during some rain, and it worked great for this purpose.
Uh oh, we're a few bottles short of finishing. I guess it's back inside for more wine...
So, a couple of weeks have passed and here we are... the finished product.
Looks like we'll be collecting cork for bit longer...
An admirable reason to drink more wine although I never have really needed an excuse. However, when winter is over and I am about to put all my wine bottles from the greenhouse in the recycling maybe I should think twice!
ReplyDeleteThis was a fun way to recycle some bottles. I've been told by people, who have also done this project, that all sorts of stuff will actually grow up and into the bottles. Should be interesting.
DeleteLooks awesome. Love this idea. That is a great excuse to drink more wine.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rambling. We're definitely having some fun with the wine theme. Looks like a bottle tree is next.
DeleteLovely.
ReplyDeleteI have to limit myself to weekend wine only - my healthy 1 glass always turns into 3. Which means, I'll have a lot of corks for you.
You have blue bottles! You have to have a bottle tree.
Cindy S.
Ah yes, the blue bottles are being reserved for a bottle tree, or perhaps... a bottle tree forest :)
DeleteWe've been using wine corks for mulch for a while....ever since Pam@Digging, did a post on a visit to Lucinda's garden.
ReplyDeleteAnd, we have a bottle tree. It sometimes is the only thing 'blooming' here.
Since the tree is full...maybe we'll just edge something...hmmmm
The blue flowers of a bottle tree in bloom are very striking indeed. And, the best part... completely deer proof.
DeleteTo Ally and her darling assistant: that looks awesome! When we did ours we were lazy and left the labels on and they wore off in time. I will be saving you all or my corks! Cheers! Jeanne
ReplyDeleteMy charming OCD hubby has to remove all the tags and labels off everything. If I fail to remove tags, he calls me Minnie Pearl. I have to admit though, the bottles do look nice and sparkly will all the labels removed. Cheers!
DeleteLike one needs and excuse! I've seen gardens lined with bottles and it's a great look. Good luck with your project.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tina. You're right no excuses needed. It's 5 o'clock somewhere :)
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