Grow Your Own Wine Rack

A grow your own wine rack kit to delight any DIY, gardening, or wine enthusiast: We're thinking great ideas can be taken from this for the true DIYer who is not bound by kits. Created by artist and designer Lois Walpole, this wine rack is grown from 22 lengths of willow...

...and then "takes two to three years before the growing willow grafts together." Eventually, it can be harvested and brought indoors; holds up to 10 bottles.

Read on about the Grow your own wine rack, which runs £29.95 (about $45) and is available online from EcoCentric.

You can also grow your own mushroom log (choose from shitake, oyster and winter mushrooms).

Comments (3)

Neat, but not practical. The constant exposure to the elements would wreck havoc on your wine. There's a reason why wine cellars exist - stable temperatures and protection from sunlight exposure make happy wines.

Now. If you wanted to display an empty bottle collection, this might be the ticket.

posted by moptop on December 1st 2008 at 5:02pm
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moptop:

They don't intend for you to store your wine outdoors.
To quote:
"It takes two to three years before the growing willow grafts together and it can be harvested and brought indoors, to hold up to 10 bottles."

posted by Daily Nuance on December 1st 2008 at 5:27pm
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But it's so cool when it's outside, who would have the heart to harvest it?

posted by whytephoenix on December 2nd 2008 at 10:46am
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