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Off to purchase our pantry doors, pick up our new MPPT boxes, and get 10 drums for pots in my herb garden, The drums are the old 44 gallon, and allow the garden to be waist height, so the herbs do there thing without making a mess, and easy to maintain, plus you place logs etc in the drum to release nutrients slowly.
What kind of rig do you drive, @off_grid_living? You will need an eighteen wheeler to carry and transport all that! I mean, just the 10 drums will easily fill a large lorry. Take it easy, young man, and have fun! I can see once a gardener, always a gardener. :-)
@david You'd be surprised how many 44 gallon drums you can fit on the back of a trailer 😂
@david You'd be surprised how many 44 gallon drums you can fit on the back of a trailer 😂
@off_grid_living Cool. 200 liter drums are quite substantial. So you then will cut them vertically down the middle to have two half trays then? Rest assured, a basement is an absolutely awesome thing to have. Makes for perfect mid- or long-term food storage. The only downside is when you get older, you have to walk up and down the stairs, too.
@lyse I think he means to stand them up vertically so the herbs grow at waist height for easier toiling and access 🤔
@lyse I think he means to stand them up vertically so the herbs grow at waist height for easier toiling and access 🤔
Yes James is correct, you cut into the top a square hole, allow the rim for a nice edge to remain, fill the drum with logs vertically and fill with soil, as the log rot away they add long term nutrients and microbial life to the garden. A garden at waist height means no weeds, herbs have defined space, and you fit more in in a metre square of space. Pipes enter from under and water it for you. So a smaller square is cut from below too.
@david Easy to carry 10 drums, on their sides, two and 1 on top is three, taking 1.2 metres, another 3 takes 2.4 metres and the final 3 takes 3.6 metres, my trailer is 4 metres long and 1.95 metres wide, with a steel front another 1.2 metres long. It has a lazy axle as well as another axle, 4 wheels in total. I carry steel beams about 6m long in it, through a door in the front.
@off_grid_living that is quite neat! You got a trailer that is just the right size for them, and then some. What do you use to haul it? Is it a pickup truck, or just a regular sedan with a hitch? I also find the use of the drums quite ingenious for cultivating, as they are the right size. A 55 gallons drum would be way too big for the task.
@off_grid_living @prologic Ah, I see, thanks! Yep, that sounds like a really cool system. And probably the very best thing is that you don't have to bend over. At least that's what I would see as the main reason to replicate it (but I'm not so much of a self grower (yet?)).