Recycled Solar Garden Cloche

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Take the label off a clear plastic 2 liter

soda/pop/tonic bottle.

Cut the bottom off the bottle.

Plant a seed.

                    Press the edge of the bottomless bottle

                    into the soil around it.

The bottomless bottle is now a cloche or hot cap,

allowing earlier planting.

Open the bottomless bottle’s bottle top

for warm days and close

it

  for cold nights.

Take the labels off a few more

clear plastic 2 liter soda/pop/tonic bottles.

Fill them with water

and surround the bottomless bottle cloche hot cap.

Tie a string around this circle

and pull it tight.

During the day, the bottles of water

get warm

              and stay warmer longer at night.

This recycled solar cloche

can take a month off planting season.

If you have green

plastic 2 liter soda/pop/tonic bottles,

place them on the North side

of the solar circle.

                             The darker the bottle

the hotter the water gets

in the sunlight.

This is a two tone solar cloche.

Take some silver paint

and paint the backs of

the green bottles

                          to reflect

                           light back

into the system

and you have a

                      three tone tuned

                               solar

                              cloche.

I built one once

for Candide’s garden.

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