Advantages and design of a flower bed made of plastic bottles at home
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Benefits of bottle beds
Flower beds made from used raw materials have many positive aspects. The most important thing is the availability of the material, because almost every family buys drinks in plastic or glass containers. Secondly, the craft made does not allow perennial plants to grow chaotically, that is, beyond strictly allotted limits. Weeds also have a hard time crossing the plastic barrier. This will save you time on spring work when planting and weeding a garden or flower bed. Thirdly, a flower garden with a plastic fence prevents the soil from drying out.
Another very important advantage of such a fence is the ability to replace any fragment of the structure if it fails. Plastic is a material that does not degrade naturally, so reuse is more of an advantage than a disadvantage. Making such a structure in the garden with your own hands is not difficult at all, since the plastic is easily cut and dug into the ground.
What are the types of structures
To date, there are a lot of options for decorating the border of a flower bed or flower garden with plastic bottles. Using PET raw materials and your imagination, you can make a fence of almost any shape and size. Most often, crafts are made out in the form:
- circle;
- rectangle;
- square.
Of course, you can approach the process more creatively and do something in the form of a constructor in the shape of a butterfly, a sun or any other shape, as plastic will “endure” everything.
It is easiest to work with bottles of the same shape and color. However, you can make a multi-colored flower garden by alternating PET bottles in a certain sequence to keep the design neat and attractive. Types of placement of plastic bottles for the formation of a flower garden: vertical crafts, horizontal crafts.
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Flower bed installation process
A vertical fence is most often used as a border for an existing flower bed, while a horizontal structure is created together with a flower bed. Making a vertical craft is much easier, as the shape of the bottle follows the overall design theme. Before installation, stickers are removed from the bottle, then it must be washed and dried. To make the design more stable, sand can be poured into the container. The fence is installed in two stages:
- Determination of boundaries and their marking. At this stage, we determine the shape and boundaries of the flower garden, make a sketch on paper, and then measure the required distance along the perimeter and form a groove of 8-10 cm in depth. The width should correspond to the diameter of the bottom.
- Filling a PET bottle. The container is filled with sand, pebbles or any other filler and set abutted to each other along the marked contour. Thus, flower beds are formed from plastic bottles of a vertical type for a garden with their own hands.
Placing PET bottles horizontally is a little more complicated than the previous option, as it will require some skills and auxiliary materials. Such a fence looks very nice, and its protective functions are much stronger. As additional materials for the design, you will need a base and fasteners. A cement substance is often used as a fastening material, and an old leaky barrel or a used tire can be used as a base. The boundaries of the flower bed in this case are determined by the diameter of the base. Fastening material covers the base to the thickness of the neck, and be sure to remove the plugs.
The cement substance is prepared from cement and sand in a ratio of 1 to 2. If possible, you can use ready-made assembly glue. We begin to apply the solution and fix the bottles from the bottom, gradually rising to the top, since each circle acts as the basis for the next row. Strive to do everything neat and thorough, especially with the first bottom layer. We form each row of crafts after the previous one dries. To decorate the last row of bottles, use moss, pebbles or special decorations for the garden and flower beds. So, as a constructor, you can decorate the courtyard of your infield with used plastic bottles with your own hands.
How to arrange a decorative component
As soon as the fence is installed, the main part of the work can be considered completed. In principle, such a flower garden will more than fulfill its protective and protective function, however, you can show your imagination and decorate the resulting structure. To do this, you can use multi-colored paint, pebbles, or make various figures from plastic with your own hands, for example, tulips. To do this, the neck of the bottle is cut in the form of a flower petal, and then each flower is painted with acrylics. With such a decor, do-it-yourself flowers will look bright both in warm weather and in winter.
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