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There are many ways that garden beds are not fenced off at the dacha. All sorts of materials lying around in the yard are used. The plastic bottle can rightfully be considered a hero of our time. On the farm they are trying to adapt it as a feeder, drinking bowl, watering device, etc. Garden beds made from plastic bottles are popular among summer residents, on which they can grow flowers and garden crops.
Options for making beds from PET bottles
Do it yourself beautiful beds for flowers from PET bottles it will not be difficult. Probably the most difficult job is delivering containers from a landfill. You will have to visit this unpleasant place, because large beds will require a lot of plastic containers. So, let's look at different options for cultivating a summer cottage.
The simplest border
The simplest fencing for a flowerbed can be made with your own hands by simply digging bottles along the contour of the bed. It should be noted right away that you will need a very large amount of containers. Bottles are only available in one size.It is optimal to use containers with a capacity of 1.5–2 liters for borders.
Now let's focus on color. The transparent bottles inside can be painted any color. This gives free rein to imagination and artistic imagination. To do this, take white acrylic paint, add the color you like, and then dilute it to a liquid consistency. Painting the inside walls of the bottle is very simple. A little liquid paint is poured into the container, closed with a stopper and shaken vigorously. After achieving the desired effect, the excess paint is drained.
A border from plastic containers can be made in three ways:
- In each bottle, the part tapering towards the neck is cut off. The container with the bottom is tightly filled with damp soil and dug in upside down along the contour of the bed.
- In order not to cut off the neck of each bottle, you will need a lot of dry sand or soil. All containers are filled to the very top with loose filler, after which they are screwed with stoppers. Further work consists of the same digging in bottles upside down.
- Using brown or green bottles you can make a simple garden bed heating with your own hands. The entire container is filled with ordinary water, screwed tightly with stoppers, and then dug in using the same method along the contour of the bed. Since dark colors attract heat from the sun, bottled water will warm up during the day. At night, the accumulated heat will warm the soil of the bed along with the root system of growing plantings.
All options for made borders will last for many seasons.If necessary, the garden bed fencing can be easily removed from the ground to be moved to another place or simply thrown away.
Making a vertical flower bed
In a small summer cottage, a vertical flower bed allows you to save space, but at the same time grow as many flowers or strawberries as possible. There are many options for making vertical flower beds, but in any case, you will need a strong support to secure the bottles. Any vertical structure will act as it. This could be a building wall, a fence, a chain-link fence, a pole or a knocked down wooden board.
Let's consider two manufacturing options vertical beds:
- In all plastic bottles, the bottoms are cut off, and a hole with a diameter of 3 mm is drilled in the center of the cork. A window for the plant is cut out in the side wall. Bottles in the narrowing area near the neck are filled with a drainage layer consisting of coarse sand with small stones. Next, fertile soil is poured at the level of the window, after which the bottles are secured on a vertical support with the neck down. Each higher-lying container should rest its neck against the ground of the lower bottle. When the entire vertical row of the bed is ready, a plant is planted in each window.
- The second option for making a vertical bed requires soldering with a hot gun. In all containers, cut off the bottom and tapered top. The resulting barrels are glued with a hot gun into a long tube, which is then fixed to a vertical support. A thin drainage pipe wrapped in burlap is inserted inside the resulting tube. This device is useful for watering plants. Soil is poured into the tube, and windows are cut out on the side wall with a knife, where the favorite plant is planted.
Showing your imagination, you can make it yourself from plastic containers. raised beds complex shape. Let’s say that after making an ordinary vertical bed, there are a lot of bottoms cut off from bottles. They make a great flower vase. You will temporarily need a large children's ball as the base of the structure. The bottoms of the bottles are glued together with a hot gun, but they are not fixed to the ball. It is only needed to give shape to the bed. The bottoms should form a ball, as shown in the photo, but there will be a large neck at the bottom for filling in soil and planting plants.
The finished ball is turned upside down, the ball is deflated and taken out from the inside. The resulting spherical flowerpot is placed in a permanent place. For reliability, the bottom can be cemented. The bottom of the flowerpot and the side walls are covered with geotextiles. It will prevent soil from spilling, plus it will allow excess water to drain out of the garden bed after rain. Fertile soil is poured inside the flowerpot and plants are planted.
Hanging flower beds
Ornamental plants and flowers look beautiful in hanging beds. In essence, this design is reminiscent of a flower pot, but instead of a flower pot, a plastic bottle is hung. The container can be placed with the neck up or down, as you like.
Let's look at one example of making a hanging bed:
- A large through window is cut out in the side walls. At the bottom, the side is left higher to make room for soil.
- The top of the bottle is pierced through and a rope is pulled through the holes for hanging. Instead of a cord, a chain or simple wire will do.
- A drainage hole is drilled at the bottom of the bottle. Excess water after watering will drain through it.If the container with the flower will hang under a canopy, you need to take care of a small pallet. Otherwise, after each watering, dirty water will drip onto the floor or a passing person.
I pour soil inside the prepared bottle, plant the plant, and then hang it on a nail or hook.
Original flower beds made from large bottles
If you have small children at home, you can make a fairy-tale flowerbed for them with your own hands. The heroes of modern cartoons are trains, robots, cars, etc. All of these characters can be made from large five-liter containers. Typically, such bottles are made from transparent plastic, so you will have to add beauty using paint.
The easiest way is to make a train with carriages, a boat or a pig out of bottles. The basis of the design is a container laid on its side with a hole cut out on top for planting flowers. Next, you need to use your imagination. Corks from small bottles are suitable for making eyes, buttons and other small parts. Wide corks taken from five-liter bottles will replace the wheels of a train or car. If the bed is in the shape of a pig, ears are cut out from a colored bottle, and a spot on the cork can be drawn with a marker.
The video shows a master class on a flower bed made from bottles:
Two more ways to make a vertical bed from bottles
Now we will look at two more ways to make a garden bed from plastic bottles so that it takes up minimal space in the yard and is beautiful. By right, these structures can also be called vertical.
Wall of boats
This method of making vertical beds is suitable even for decorating walls finished with expensive decorative plaster. The thing is that you don’t have to drill into the wall to secure the bottles.All containers are suspended on ropes using the principle of a rope ladder. It is optimal to use one different color of plastic container for each row to achieve aesthetics.
To make a bed, one large window is cut out on the side of all bottles. When viewed horizontally, the container resembles a small boat. Next, small but strong hooks need to be attached to the eaves of the building. They must withstand the weight of boats with soil. On each bottle, through holes are made in the neck and bottom area, through which a nylon cord is pulled. A thick knot is tied on a rope under each row of containers. It will prevent the bottle from sliding down.
It is optimal to make each ladder a 50 cm step between the boats, and all adjacent rows should be hung with an upward or downward shift of 25 cm. You will get even horizontal rows of boats on the wall, but the bottles themselves will hang relative to each other in a checkerboard pattern. This arrangement will help to optimally cover the entire wall area, maintaining a large space between the bottles in a vertical row for free plant growth.
Pyramid bed
To make this bed model you will need to build a pyramid. What size it will be depends on the owner. If you have a wooden beam on your farm, you can use it to assemble a pyramid frame. Horizontally laid five-liter bottles with a cut-out window for plants are secured to the jumpers with self-tapping screws.
A pyramid flower garden can be made from boards. On each tier, the workpieces are placed flat or at a slight angle. Holes are drilled in the boards for flower pots using a drill with a round attachment. The bottles are cut in half, the neck is thrown away, and the lower part is inserted into the prepared holes.To prevent the pots from falling out of the pyramid, the top edge of the bottle is bent and then fixed to the board with a stapler or self-tapping screw.
Conclusion
There are a lot of options for making beds from plastic containers. There are no requirements for these designs, so each master shows his own talent.
