How to build a Bottle Tower (I am def going to try this in the spring)

sb44

I have just stumbled across this on YouTube, I have never seen the idea before, it looks great, grow lots of plants in a small area with very little watering.

It just looks like a lot of bottles but includes a funnel and a filter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uDbjZ9roEQ&feature=related




http://desertification.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/combating-malnutrition-in-the-drylands-how-to-build-a-bottle-tower-for-container-gardening-willem-van-cotthem/

Ken68

Great sb..like the music. Have lots of 4pinters might give it a go.

ALIBOBSY

Just wondering if anyone else is trying these this year. I have my first ones up and filled, just going to get the first seedlings in. I have mine along the outside of the chicken fence so its easy to attach the wire around the bottles and I won't mind too much i the "girls" snatch the odd leaf that grows their way :rotfl:.

Trying to decide what to grow though, I am thinking herbs and salad, but not sure what else. I have got some leftover cabbage seedlings (hispi) and have wondered if one of those would work-I assume it would only be small, and what about other greens like chard?

Ali x

sb44

I had forgotten that I had posted it!

Too busy planting cheap Aldi trees this year to try this, I may give it a go next year if I remember.