2 Litre bottle greenhouse warmers.

What a good idea, I wouldn't have thought of that!

Folk are amazing with their ideas aren't they Scottie. Brilliant.

Great idea....

very ingenious.

A case of necessity being the mother of invention!

Oh I like that idea having a little greenhouse myself, tell her thanks I'm going to do the same!

does she put them inside like hot water bottles on the shelves or do you mean around the outside like a bottle wall?

either way great idea!

great idea ...i have old duvets at the ready for the colder nights in my polytunnel...

On the floor under the bottom shelf Sticki. Old duvets is a good idea too Sandra. I was telling my brother about the idea this evening and he was concerned that the heat would not be retained for long. If you do decide to use the idea proceed with caution.

Its amazing what ideas folks come up with to protect the plants and seedlings, this is so obvious but would never have occurred to me.......

Great idea, but what happens when they get cold again !
The shower curtains a good idea as well. Isn't it amazing how the simplest things work !

I have a stone hot water bottle, what we in Scotland call a stone piggy. That should do the trick. I knew if I kept it long enough it would come in useful. I also cook on a coal fired cooker. I could put a couple of bricks in the oven to heat up and transfer them very carefully to the mini greenhouse. They should act like storage radiators. I'd probably need to put them in a sand filled tray to make sure they did not melt anything.

Another option...I could put my eldest son in an unheated greenhouse.....he's full of hot air!!!!

I reckon if you could secure the bottles together and make them into a wall [all around the greenhouse if possible] that would make good insulation?

Great idea!
Someone who works here at the stud used lots of my bubble wrap for the inside of his green house! I wondered where most of it had gone!

maybe i could use bubble wrap to mend my ripped plastic greenhouse!?? with a bit of duck tape too!

Way to go! Or have a look at my new one, che apish but fairly substantial but you need a 'graham or Bampy' to put it up! I put duck tape on mine, without the orange sauce and it still ripped off in the wind.

Maybe I could stick it together with orange sauce instead!

Its where to find enough bottles. We don't use much that comes in these bottles but when I was at Suntrap we had a greenhouse made from 2 litre soft drinks bottles. If I remember Scotkat made one too for her Community Garden.

thats what i think i had in mind scotsgran ~ i knew i had seen one somewhere

Its a great idea if you have a pub nearby who will keep all their empties for you which is how Suntrap got theirs I think. I did a blog about my small plastic covered greenhouse. I bought a new cover for it to find the metal frame had rotted. OH made up a new frame out of plastic water pipe. Now the zip at one side of the entrance door has given way. He is considering getting that tripe wall plastic sheet and bolting it to the frame which will hopefully work. Until the plastic cover wears out I will fasten that side of the doorway with ribbons at intervals.

one day i will move and have a sunnier garden then i might have something more substantial?!!

I don't think I could start again somewhere else. Every now and again I see a house and think 'that would be a nice place to live.' And then I get realistic.

I only have one of those little greenhouses so last night I put two bottles on the bottom shelf with hot water in, there's newspaper under the greenhouse and bubble wrap on the shelves that the plants stand on, then there's a plastic old shower curtain on top of all that! It's stood in a sheltered corner outside the lounge window that faces South so gets the sun ( if there is any) first thing. The things we do!