You’re about to be schooled in the brilliance that is the “bottle tower garden,” which can be installed against the wall of a house or along a hedge or fence.
This gardening technique is not only simple and cheap, but it’s also good for the environment (and you don’t need a green thumb to create your own). The man behind the project is Willem Van Cotthem, who documented the construction of his bottle tower in 2011-2012. He and his team began by stacking old plastic soda bottles along the edge of a fence, then by planting the seeds during a gradual process that involves more stacking and planting.
Within one year, the outdoor space completely transforms to a lush garden of beautiful vegetables and herbs. He says the number of bottle towers can be adapted in order to grow an entire family’s food year-long, year after year. Willem is an honorary professor in Belgium, and with a degree in botany, he certainly knows a thing or two about gardening.
The bottle tower garden works in both rural and in urban areas and is especially helpful when you live in a housing complex where plant space is very limited (i.e. a balcony). Even more incredible is the fact it can be applied at the lowest cost to alleviate malnutrition and hunger in all parts of the world.