Plastic bottles stacked into a bottle tower can be recycled to set up a vertical kitchen garden at home. The bottle towers are used for container gardening of vegetables and herbs. How to build such a tower is shown in different steps.
Container Gardening
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do you change the soil every year? how about fertilizing? use water soluable and just pot in the water tower? pretty cool idea.
I think I've just found the solution to my husky digging up my vegetable and flower gardens! She can dig to her hearts content in the garden now, while I use the walls and fences to grow in towers 😀
Interesting idea in theory, but when the bottles heat up in the sun, they release endocrine disrupting hormones (BPA's and it's ilk) into the soil, to be taken up by the plants and subsequently ingested.
Hi Willem, do you think this bottle garden will work for tomato plants??
Doesn't the BPA in the bottles leach into the soil and then into the plant that would eventually produce food that you would then consume?😟
What a brilliant idea and great instructive video. There sure is no excuse not to grow at least some vegetables or flowers!
Excellent idea , well explained thanks a lot! What else do you grow in the bottle garden? Can you please list items that you have successfully grown in that garden?
Pretty awesome stuff. Been looking at building walls to my charismatic greenhouse & I reckon this is it – but im stumped on your 6th level (funnel). Narrative says 'no cap' but seems to me the video footage shows there is (or what appears to be) a red cap.
Please confirm (& whether it makes a difference and why).
Much appreciated. Excellent source of material for Eco friendliness, sustainability and well being. Thank You :).
Very good.
Hi Sir Willem, how many times should i use the soil in the bottle for new batch of lettuce? can i reuse the soil for another batch or change it after harvest?
great work sir
Actually I have some question.
1. how many times can I reuse soil, how do I know, whether soil had loosed fertility, that I change.
2. water supply, how long I do supply the water. how many times?
Thanks u and waiting for ur answer if anyone knows they can let me know.
brilliant
Great little ideas with big results. I'm inspired.
Very nice easy ways of garendening using plastic bottles ..i like it👌😊
I am inspired. Is the drip method enough to feed the bottom bottle.
Great work. well done
Really like the design! Thanks for sharing 🙂
amazing 🙂
So does the top of the tower remain permanently wetter than the bottom bottle? I get good drainage is important, I'm a big fan of Perlite, I just wonder how much water makes it to the bottom and if you need to place the plants accordingly.
THANK YOU THANK YOU. I want to use this to teach little people about sustainable living in the city. Growing their food and reusing bottles instead of creating trash.
Willem, this is brilliant! I have a good bit of land in which to garden, but weeds are a horrible problem with some plants. This is the perfect solution. I shall create a bottle garden for small delicate plants against my Hound run and it will serve the dual purpose of providing some shade for the Hounds in our hot Tennessee summers. Sharing with an agriculture teacher friend. Thank you for sharing and spreading the joy of gardening!
I will try. Good idea sir.
I really want to thank you both for this simple but very effective idea and for not using the generic crap usually used as nusic in these sorts of vidyas
Very good idea I'm going to try this.thanks for showing us
thank you for sharing such a great idea. Can you tell me how long this garden would last? Would you need to replace the whole tower once the bottles break down?
is the initial soil moistened before putting in the bottles?
Superb willem….Love from india
You ve showed me a way beautiful
Can you put a video of sappling preparation?
So inspiring!
Do you also you also use a 1mm hole for the buckets, or a larger hole?
I am going to try that . looks like it will work.
if you don't have a fence to stack against duct tape to a stake or pvc pipe .
Thank you so much Willam I have a small apartment and I have a porch but it's very small I'm going to try it and I have plenty of bottles God bless you Jesus is coming
Super!
This is fantastic. I’m going to ask our head teacher if we can do this in school.
Wow great idea sir , thanks for sharing , i will try this summer to grow my berrys
Greetings,
Better including explanation; audiovisual presentation.
All regards,
Mashallah Ali-Ahyaie
mashalah@gmail.com
What kind of fencing is that? How would I search for it on Amazon? Do you attach a ceiling and hang garden stuff from the ceiling? Also to protect from birds?