How can 1,500 plastic bottles and some simple tools help you grow food? With an increasing emphasis on producing local food, REAP, Scotland’s local sustainable development charity, has come up with an innovative way to produce local food while recycling unwanted materials.
Their Recycled Plastic Bottle Greenhouse design blueprint was created to help people build simple greenhouses in eight easy steps:
1. Gather about 1,500 two litre bottles for a large sized greenhouse.
2. Wash the bottles and cut off the tops and bottoms.3. Cement four vertical posts into the ground.
5. Make a frame for each greenhouse side, the roof and door.6. Stake the bottles one inside the other with a garden cane supporting them in the middle. Place the bottles and cans on the frames to be attached at the top and bottom of the frame.
7. Affix the complete frames onto uprights.
8. Decide if the roof should be flat or sloping. Make the roof and attach.
Now your greenhouse is ready for planting. Download the full instructions to build a Plastic Bottle Greenhouse.
Visit: http://www.reapscotland.org.uk/
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