Grow some beer in your garden!

I was scouring the internet this morning for ideas to use as a border for the vegetable garden! I had seen where using flowering plants would look oh so nice...I loved that idea...but in my mind I would either have to pay for the instant gratification, or wait, wait, wait for plants big enough to flower...

Well, I walked outside to water, and happened to glance in the recycle bins, and what did I see but beer bottles. I had once seen where someone used them to make a border. Of course, I think they had soaked the labels off first...

I'm kinda liking the colors on them! Hey...I know what you are thinking (possibly)....but I am very cheap...oh soo cheap...with a capitol C. Anyway, I came back in the house and told my husband to keep buying the same 3-4 (basically) types of brown bottled beers he had been buying (no clear ones right now)...and I will finish this out. No one really sees this garden, but me (and you)...so what the heck. I think it looks fun, and hopefully the labels will stand up to the weather for the next 5 months or so.

The necks of the bottles push right into the ground...well, I added my body weight to get them in there good...and voila...easy, fun, and a work in progress...at 2 bottles a day it will take a while...but recycling is a good thing! Now I am wondering what I could edge in a nice shade of blue bottle!!