Vertical Garden with Plastic Bottles

A vertical garden is the answer to problems of limited space, allows us to make better use of water, soil nutrients and allows us to watering plants in less time.

If we use plastic bottles as raw material we are recycling and making the project free cost.

How to make a vertical garden with soda plastic bottles?

Next I explain the method that I have used, not necessarily the best.

Materials:

• Plastic bottles (the bigger the better).
• Wire (To hang the vertical array of bottles).

Tools:

• Drill with 1 inch Spade Bit.
• Sandpaper.
• Pointed scissors.
• Pliers.

Diagram:

This vertical Garden version is formed by a group of plastic bottles connected by a neck and the base of the next, ensuring the junction with the first cap.

The first container (the top half of a bottle) is reserved for be a water tank. adding a little dirt in order to the liquid go down slowly.

Deposited on the ground is the other half of the bottle, where the water that is not absorbed by the substrate and the plants is stored.

The flow of water from the top to the bottom is not performed within a given time because it changes depending on how tight and wet is the ground. I empty the water from the bottom to the top once a day and add new water every three days, but of course this depends on several factors such as the weather and how wet we want the substrate for our plants.

Procedure:

1. Drill the base of the bottles with the Spade Bit, except that we will leave for the upper and lower reservoirs.

2. Remove the plastic remains with the pliers and sanding to enlarge just a little the hole that we have drilled.

3. Cut the bottle making the "windows" to plant what we want.

4. Cut the caps of the bottles with the tip of the scissors closed, turning to the desired width, drilling inside out.

5. Remove with scissors the plastic ring that is located under the caps.

6. Cut the bottle that we will place in the top by the half.

7. Attach the bottles inserting the bottle neck in the drilled hole of the next, then secure the union with perforated caps.

Finally, twisting a wire into the neck of the first bottle and hang.

Final result

Variant

In this version I placed diagonally the bottles with the same union between them, change only the ends of each line, which are connected by a flexible 1/2 inch hose.