[HelenK]

Hi all,

I read with interest the very expansive thread on new things to do with your old plastic bottles, very useful.

My question is, can anyone think of a good use on the allotment (or anywhere else!) for emply glass 75cl wine bottles?!

I've wracked my brains but alas can't think of anything!

Thanks in advance,
Helen

[jjbull]

homebrew wine 

[savbo]

I've seen them buried 3/4 deep, neck down, as path edging...

[SpudtheBinx]

I'm with jjbull! Grow things for homebrew!

[Louise]

ive seen a path amde out of bottles too, it looked great. A good excuse to drink lots of wine too  
I found this pic for you

http://media.photobucket.com/image/glass%20bottle%20path/nova45/The%20New%20Garden/Project6-8.png


I just typed in bottle path in google images theres loads

Louise

[Kristen]

http://www.reuk.co.uk/Solar-Greenhouse-Heat-Sink.htm

"During the first series of BBC2's It's Not Easy Being Green, Dick Strawbridge put together an elegant greenhouse heating system using a 10 Watt PV Solar Panel, a 12V battery, a small fan, some PVC waste pipe, and 1 cubic metre of crushed glass"

[Trillium]

But the catch with the crushed glass was that he had to hire a special machine to do it so it wasn't dangerous shards of glass.

[Salmo]

Glass is banned from our attotment. Quite right too as there is nothing worse than broken glass in youe soil.

[elibump]

Go to Monsieur Besse's down the road, buy either 5 or 10 litres of wine in your cubitainer at 1.75€ a litre (less for rosé a little more for white) fill up your cleaned bottles and cork them, then savour the flavour at your leisure after a hard day's work in the garden/allotment.

[hindy]

I just refil all mine with the home made stuff. 
In fact I'll be filling 30 of them soon with this 5 gallons of rhubarb wine 

[elibump]

I just refil all mine with the home made stuff. 
In fact I'll be filling 30 of them soon with this 5 gallons of rhubarb wine 

  Dont't think M. Besse does rhubarb wine - will check next time I go.

[hindy]

I just refil all mine with the home made stuff. 
In fact I'll be filling 30 of them soon with this 5 gallons of rhubarb wine 

  Dont't think M. Besse does rhubarb wine - will check next time I go.

do they want some? 
I might even turn some into sparkling wine. 

[elibump]

 

He does sell from enourmous vats though - with a petrol pump attachment on, can you manage such quantities??

[hindy]

He does sell from enourmous vats though - with a petrol pump attachment on, can you manage such quantities??

Biggest batch I do is the 5 gallon one.
But thats plenty for me