Wine Ideas, Tips & Guides

Can sending vines into space help wine production on Earth? Nicholas Gaume and Dr Michael Lebert from Space Cargo Unlimited join Emma the Space Gardener to discuss Mission WISE, and why they’ve sent both wine and vines to the International Space Station.

Hello! Welcome to Gardeners Off World. This week we’ll start with a musical interlude, as violinist Lindsey Stirling recently performed her song, Artemis, on top of the Launch Control Center at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center:

Plenty of gardeners will admit that growing wine cap mushrooms was their gateway to an unexpected new obsession with mushroom cultivation. Considering how rewarding growing wine cap mushrooms can be, that’s really no surprise. For me it was a shiitake mushroom kit that piqued my interest in growing other mushrooms, like wine caps. With their bright red mushroom caps and creamy white stems, the mushrooms themselves are visually striking. They’re also among the easiest mushrooms to start in outdoor garden beds, along pathways, on layers of cardboard and straw, and via many other substrates.

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I absolutely love outdoor decorations that use wine bottles! Especially blue bottles, but those can be harder to come by. I have colored bottles before using Modge Podge and food coloring for a transparent bottle, or with spray paint for an opaque one, but I wanted something different this time.

Growing succulents in wine glasses is easy. Gather some wine glasses, fill them with a commercial cactus or any loamy soil mix, and plant some assorted succulents. Further, decorate them with pebbles. You can use them as centerpieces and introduce them to coffee tables and office desks.

Water fountains are fun and relaxing, and can add a lot of visual appeal to your yard.

Hummingbirds are so pretty and fun to watch. This is a wonderful way to reuse and upcycle empty wine bottles. The hummingbird feeders look beautiful and attract hummingbirds to your yard.

One problem I have is seeing a potential project in just about anything and everything--I'm a self proclaimed crafting hoarder and I'm trying to be better about what I keep so as not to drive Rob completely bonkers. Something that I have a ton of that I know can be used in so many ways is a bin of wine bottles. Whether we've popped open a bottle for dinner with friends or my many friends keeping theirs for me, I've collected them over the years and have actually gotten rid of a lot of them when trying to purge the basement. However, I still have several and thought I'd finally do something with them.

Though there are various ways you can use empty bottles of wine, in this post, check out some really interesting Wine Bottle Water Feature Ideas that you’ll surely love to make.

I wanted to surprise my family with a unique gift so I built an outdoor table from a recycled wine barrel and wire spool. The catch was I integrated a propane burner into the project to produce a fire table the whole family could enjoy on those cool nights. Follow along and you too can build something unique like this.

Also Read: 26 DIY Wine Bottle Ideas

Wine bottles are beautiful and sturdy. Here are steps to transform your favorite wine bottle into a fun and functional wind chime for your home.

Spring is finally upon us! Hallelujah! I've been waiting for this nice weather since last summer ended and now the time has come to start sprucing up our yard again.

Hello friends! While we may be quarantining it up right now, that doesn’t mean that Spring isn’t in the air. And that means summer is just around the corner. Here at the Fiddle Leaf House, we spend so many days and evenings out on our patio as the weather gets warmer, so adding some light and ambiance was key! If you can believe it, these wine barrel market light posts were our very FIRST DIY in this home when we moved in 3 years ago! I wasn’t blogging back then, so I didn’t take any photos. But when we replaced our original faux wine barrels for real ones this past summer, I took a few photos of the process for you! I hope you'll visit me on my blog for more fun projects!This is a GREAT quarantine project because you can order materials online and then try out your local hardware stores curbside pickup for the bigger things, like the whiskey barrels, dirt, and plants. Many local nurseries are also doing local delivery right now too. And of course, if you’re reading this after quarantine life is over, then all you have to do is make a quick run to your local hardware store to pick up everything you need!

If you have spare wine glasses (if you don’t, go get some, NOW) in your house–complete one of these DIY Wine Glass Centerpiece projects. Display them to boost your daily home decor efforts or use some to decorate on special occasions and festivals. Moreover, they can be perfect wedding and party favors.

Do you love miniature terrariums and like showing off plants in a cute little place? If yes, then we have some amazing Beautiful Pictures of Wine Glass Terrariums for you!

You will be surprised to know that apart from sipping wine, there are many Things to Do with Wine Glasses! Have a look at them here!

We all love wine, don’t we! But did you know that there are also some really helpful Leftover Wines Uses in Garden and Home? No? Don’t worry, we have many for you!

You will love these DIY cork projects if you’re a wine cork collector, and if you’re not, you can easily get them for free or at cheap rates from an upscale restaurant, winery, friends or websites like the eBay.

Check out some awesome DIY Wine Bottle Ideas for home and yard that will surely tempt you to save the empty bottles from now on!

Use a wine barrel ring to create a succulent wreath. They used faux succulents. You can use real plants as well. Click here for the tutorial.

This infographic has all the steps required to create this DIY wine barrel planter.

Dinners, parties and get-togethers are never complete without a good bottle of red wine. But almost always, someone ends up with a souvenir from the occasion in the form of a wine stain on their much-loved clothing.

It cuts quite an impressive figure when you’re elegantly holding a wineglass in your hand. However, walls stained with a splash of wine are not attractive at all.

You are partying with your friends and suddenly a glass of red wine topples over the table and spills onto your favorite carpet – the scary moment that draws you into anger!