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Chatting => Frugal Living => Topic started by: fish on May 01, 2010, 08:26

Title: make a free green house....
Post by: fish on May 01, 2010, 08:26: saw this beuty at a local school,it is made from recycled plastic 3l bottles,the bottoms sliced off and threaded onto bamboo stix one on top of the other,dispite the gaps it was suprisingly warm inside.

(http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/fishfish_01/st%20georges%20day%20bourton%202010/DSC04898.jpg)

i may try this with cider bottles.............
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Post by: plum crumble on May 01, 2010, 09:31: WOW!!!!!

what ingenuity!!!!
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Post by: Manlea1 on May 01, 2010, 09:35: Love the idea but if i save up 300 odd pop bottles to make one i wont fit thru the door after ive finished lol :D
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Post by: mumofstig on May 01, 2010, 10:29: You could try bottled water Manlea :lol:
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Post by: Manlea1 on May 01, 2010, 10:30: Now thats a thought :D
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Post by: dexyblue on May 01, 2010, 12:12: there is a webite showing how to make it but I have forgot the name of it :wacko:
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Post by: dexyblue on May 01, 2010, 12:15: found it http://www.reapscotland.org.uk/reports/greenhouse%20v1.pdf :)
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Post by: missycat on May 03, 2010, 06:43: I want one...it's stunning but not sure what the other plot holders would make of it...they don't like my tyre planters :lol:
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Post by: monsta on May 03, 2010, 10:25: it would take me an age to save up the bottles! nice idea but it wouldn't go down well in my allotment as they give me evils for my recycled roof latt munty frame! :(
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Post by: granjan on May 03, 2010, 10:43: What a wonderful project that was! I bet the children will never forget that. :)
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Post by: Spana on May 03, 2010, 12:06: You can buy them, this is one being delivered :lol:(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c176/Codswolop/img005.jpg)
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Post by: kezlou on May 06, 2010, 13:50: wow that green house is fantastic!!
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Post by: Runwell-Steve on May 06, 2010, 15:58: I think I may have to build one of them for my garden and put it up next to my neighbours fence. He doesn't even like the proper glass one thats already there.
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Post by: ohsocute on May 07, 2010, 12:19: Brilliant ;)

Bet it would look good using different coloured bottles, would also help with shading the sun if it got too strong ???
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Post by: gsc on May 08, 2010, 07:39: Quote from: Runwell-Steve on May 06, 2010, 15:58
I think I may have to build one of them for my garden and put it up next to my neighbours fence. He doesn't even like the proper glass one thats already there.

My goodness, and I thought I had problems!!! :blink:
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Post by: greenun on May 18, 2010, 11:47: What a beauty!
Now... if it was possible to use whole bottles filled with water then it would get warm
during the day and stay warmish all night. (maybe) Grow warm weather plants in winter. Hmmm.... any clues anyone? :wacko:
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Post by: Digger Tom on May 23, 2010, 08:17: What a brilliant idea for a greenhouse. Its probably not practical for the likes of us, it would mean drinking an awfull lot of fizzy pop. But at a school it would work a treat, just get the kids to bring in there used pop botttles & 300+ would be there before you new it.
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Post by: joyfull on May 24, 2010, 07:44: somebody near here simply put a wanted post on our freecycle and left a bin outside their house for the bottles to be dropped into, think they got their amount needed pretty quickly :)