Rotokare@Rawhitiroa: Bottle house progress: Our school is building a green house .... it
Showing posts with label Green Houses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Houses. Show all posts
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Rotokare@Rawhitiroa: Bottle house progress
Rotokare@Rawhitiroa: Bottle house progress: Our school is building a green house .... it
Thursday, 23 April 2015
Toko School Bottle House
Click below to read more about Toko School's bottle house from their enviro blog.
Enviro Learning @ Toko School: Our bottle house is finally completed!On Wednesday...: Our bottle house is finally completed! On Wednesday 20th August we invited Rural Women to come and see the finished product...
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Plastic Bottle House
Just before pet day last year we finished off our bottle house. Students looked into different types of greenhouses and their costs using Google. This kind was the greenest and the cheapest, and looked simple for us to build! Thanks to our lovely local recycling centre and local families, who saved all the bottles for us, we managed to get enough to complete the job.
We also managed to get a grant from Phonak to help with costs of the framing. We raised our tomato and cucumber seedlings last year, but we're hoping it comes into its own this spring to raise a lot more seedlings.
The build was really time consuming, and because our kids are littles, we had to do it bit by bit. We could only get a few bottles on each bamboo pole before some lost interest and we had to move onto a different area of the garden. Something to consider. We also needed adult to cut bottles.
If we were to give advice we would say to pack your poles tightly together for maximum insulation. We might have to go back and adjust our front with a few extra poles.
We also managed to get a grant from Phonak to help with costs of the framing. We raised our tomato and cucumber seedlings last year, but we're hoping it comes into its own this spring to raise a lot more seedlings.
The build was really time consuming, and because our kids are littles, we had to do it bit by bit. We could only get a few bottles on each bamboo pole before some lost interest and we had to move onto a different area of the garden. Something to consider. We also needed adult to cut bottles.
If we were to give advice we would say to pack your poles tightly together for maximum insulation. We might have to go back and adjust our front with a few extra poles.
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