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| Laura, also known as "the garden lady" collected some old 2 liter pop bottles cut off the bottoms, painted them black, and beautified them with some lively colored acrylic paints. wow! |
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| Laura is not only a great gardener but a great colorist! Look at this shipping pallets!! So vibrant! This is just what we need in gloomy Snohomish co. She used spray paint that you can find almost anywhere (i.e. Home Depot, Lowe's, Fred Meyer, etc.) |
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| You're almost ready to plant!! The next steps are so easy: 1. Drill the bottles to the boards. 2. Cut a small square of landscaping fabric and place in the bottom of each bottle (we don't want the soil falling out) 3. Removed the caps on the bottles 4. Add soil/compost mixture to bottles 5. PLANT!!!!! TIP: You can arrange the bottles in any order you like but remember if you have bottles above other bottles like this: I I I I I I I I I be sure to put the plants that need the MOST water ON TOP. |
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| TADA!! We are still adding more bottles but here is our work in progress... So easy and affordable! Some people like doing an herb garden, others have made salad gardens, what would you like to have??? Have you made a vertical garden before? Do you have any tips for us? Please share!! |
Hi Everyone! Garden Lady here--I just wanted to post some of What I Learned About Painting:
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2. Use paints that are formulated for what you are painting! For the pots, I used a special paint for plastic (you can also get a primer that goes on plastic, and then you can paint over in any old color you want). We chose to paint our bottle pots black to help warm up the soil, especially for early/late season plants like greens and radishes. The paint for plastic is supposed to stick to the plastic bottle better than paint for wood or metal.
3. A clear coat over everything is a good idea! Don't pick an enamel paint to use on over the plastic paint though--it will soften/dissolve your plastic paint, which you can see on the first bottle pots I painted. Not a horrible mistake, but not optimal either. For the second set, I asked the wonderful paint department lady at Home Depot what I should use, and she set me straight--those pots look much better!
Happy coloring!