The unique shape and diverse hues of wine bottles make them a versatile décor piece. Here are some of our favorite ways to upcycle wine bottles - Which one is your favorite? To see more, visit: http://blog.brightnest.com/
I toured a local Nursery and landscaping center yesterday with my Garden club and saw a fantastic re-purposing of wine bottles there. The owner had access to tons of bottles from local restaurants and bars and had used them as borders for gardens. I love the idea!
Don't have photo yet, but flip them upside down and use to make a garden border. Dig trench, pop them in, and really push soil firmly around them to hold. My husband has been yet to break them with John Deere or string weeder. Labels will decompose, but if you want to keep them on, brush over with spar urethane and dry before trenching in. Beer, wine, liquor, whatever. I do not recommend this for gardens with lots of kids or pets. The bottles can break if hit just right on the top. Easy and recycling at its best.
LOL - What do I do with wine BOXES?? Love the ideas. Really like the garden border by the upturned bottles. Wish there were some directions for so you I dont end up breaking the bottles.
Nanette F - how funny - your note was not there when I typed my note! Beer bottles work? Hubby drinks a Shiner Beer every night with dinner. I always thought beer bottles were thinner glass than wine bottles.
my husband took different alchol bottles, sprayed them inside with can spray paint,, different colors each, puting them upside down on poles , beside our fish pond , they are kool looking later we plan on stringing lights threw them,
I use all sorts of bottles for vases...washed out a tabasco sauce green bottle, left in the plastic pouring insert and the small flower stand up straight! Also, oilive oil bottles with colorful labels make a delightful vase...leave in the pouring insert and the flower stands tall! To add color, I added a bubble blowing small bright pink bottle to my collection in the kitchen window.
Yep, any glass bottles will do. Love the painted bottle idea. Bottles tree are also very popular in south. They are supposedly to keep away bad spirits. Beer bottles are thinner, so I intersperse them with other alcohol bottles. That's also why i don't recommend a bottle border in kid/pet areas or really high traffic areas. There's a picture after the wine bottle vases showing a border. I leave mine higher because i have raised/mulched beds. Moisten the soil, dig a small hole or trench
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and push bottle gently into soil. Adjust soil at bottom before refilling hole to adjust bottle height. Don't pound and wear leather gloves. You can have them all one height like picture or leave them to zig zag height wise.
I also use dinner plates as borders, too. 1/2 price Sat. At Goodwill can buy me a nice stack of plates for a couple of bucks. I make a trench, bury them at 1/3 to 1/2 and pack soil around bottom. Overlap them slightly if you want them to hold in soil/mulch. Flowered plates are really pretty, i use simpler plates because i want my flowers to be the show. Up to you.
I also integrated old tires into my veggie garden. No i did not cut them and turn them inside out, too hard.
I painted them, stacked them, and grow more invasive herbs like horseradish and mint in them. I live in the country so old tires may not be acceptable in closer quarters.
Mark B - There are some bottle cutters available. My distributor has 2, one for $24.95 (looks like a glass cutter and a compass) and the other is $35 The As Seen on TV - has an actual stand - looks more steady.
Nanette - nice ideas, I had heard the one about the tires. I'm sure they are quite plentiful if you keep an eye out for them. Wonder if they leach anything into the ground?
I love all these bottles! I don't actually collect bottles, but I will admit I do have a fascination with them. My sister received a gift that was purchased at a gift shop...her friend did not make it...that was a half gallon wine jug (green) with a loop handle that had been cut in half, edges sanded, and a place sitting on top of the bottom half and the top half sitting on the plate. Chips went in the bottom part and the dip sat in a bowl on the plate! Now is that a cute way to set out chips and dip or what! I loved it!
I also use dinner plates as borders, too. 1/2 price Sat. At Goodwill can buy me a nice stack of plates for a couple of bucks. I make a trench, bury them at 1/3 to 1/2 and pack soil around bottom. Overlap them slightly if you want them to hold in soil/mulch. Flowered plates are really pretty, i use simpler plates because i want my flowers to be the show. Up to you.
I also integrated old tires into my veggie garden. No i did not cut them and turn them inside out, too hard.
I painted them, stacked them, and grow more invasive herbs like horseradish and mint in them. I live in the country so old tires may not be acceptable in closer quarters.