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How to liven up a disused fireplace with plants.

Step 4Finishing up

Finishing up
Fold the edges of the binbag inwards towards the plants and then sprinkle another layer of compost over the top to cover it up. Plump up the foliage to make it look nice sit back and admire. Now you're fireplace looks nice and I like to think of it as an anti-fire using up all the CO2 that would have been produced in that very fireplace by burning wood. So you're also being green, which is nice if you live close to sea level like me. NB I know nothing about climate change it could well be man made but at the same time be natural, I don't want to start that whole debate, I also would like to point out that you will not solve global warming by doing this Instructable. But to be honest most of you clever Instructableists will have invented a way of inhabiting the moon soon so it doesn't matter anyway. I digress though...
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