now that’s a green lawn chair!

July 17th, 2008 at 03:25am Jennie Pollock

my creative co-worker in charge of multimedia, chris soprych, shared this with me: Grow Your Own Lawn Chair.

the tip is courtesy of make magazine, which got it from treehugger.com.

“The Grass armchair is self assembled, each pack contains 14 corrugated cardboard frames and 100g pack of grass seeds. You will need about 240 litres of soil, to fill in the frame. First find the right spot, because once the armchair has grown you won’t be able to move it!! You can put up to 20cm of gravel with in the frame then the soil. Spread the seeds evenly using only 4/5 of the bag of seeds. Press them in and water slightly so that the soil is humid. Water the armchair everyday.”

so if you made the frame yourself, you’d be recycling and creating a reusable resource from renewable materials. too bad i just re-did my backyard.

by the way, make is a tech-inclined do-it-yourselfer magazine. i bought it for my father-in-law the engineer one year.

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