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Is this possible?

rlewrlew Posts: 73
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Why? They look l onions to me.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    What is it supposed to be (other than some dumb idea someone has posted on Facebook)?
    Rutland, England
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That was my thought @BenCotto.
    All kinds of things are possible, but it doesn't mean they're worthwhile  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Perfectly possible. I’ve seen a similar thing done with a glass ‘vase’ with ‘cups’ for lots of bulbs. I think it was a Victorian antique. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Do a reverse image search and this typical example of Facebook bellendery features a lot.
    Rutland, England
  • rlewrlew Posts: 73
    Yeah I got sent the pic from a colleague. He has some pics that are possible. But this 1 intrigued me, would be a good space saver
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Cutting 45 neat holes in a water bottle is not an easy task, especially if you’re determined to end up with the same number of fingers at the end as you had at the beginning. Watering the onions at the base of the container would be a significant challenge, as would harvesting the onions as you’d have to enlarge the planting holes to take them out. Or do you intend only to eat the green leaves, the bit that everyone else throws away.

    As I said, a dumb idea.
    Rutland, England
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I would think it's quite fiddly to plant up, with a hole for each bulb to grow out of and getting them all pointing the right way. And watering so that the top ones got enough water but the bottom ones didn't get too soggy might be tricky. Plunge the whole thing into a deep bucket for a while and then let it drain, maybe. You'd need holes in the bottom and a saucer underneath to avoid damaging whatever it's standing on.  So it's possible, but not very practical. And it'd be a bit of a fiddle to dismantle it and replant the bulbs in the ground afterwards.

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If (very large 'if') I were going to make one, I'd use a pyrography tool to melt the holes in the plastic bottle, starting from the bottom, adding the bulb fibre and the bulbs as I went.  I'd probably only do it to prove that it could be done.  I can be stubborn.  😂

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It might work with crocuses, I suppose.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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