Good Morning!

[WiscoFishNut]

Right on man! I'll have to post a pic of the crazy planter we built a few years back. It's raised to waist height and self watering (as self watering as can be lol).

Happy Hump day!

Here's the planter I was talking about. The construction was pretty heavy duty since it holds a ton of dirt plus water, so it took a few of us to put it together. The whole thing is lined with heavy duty plastic sheet making it water tight. In the bottom is a bunch of perforated drain pipe sheathed in a sleeve/sock. The water is delivered via that PVC pipe you see sticking up. The PVC tube was cut at an angle and then stabbed down in to the drain pipe. On the bottom back of the planter there's a whole drilled with an external drain hose that lets the planter keep about 4-6" of water in the bottom (had to do some sealing to keep from leaking with a copious amount of duct tape). The plant roots draw the water from the bottom once they get long enough.

It's held up pretty dang well for the last few years and makes it easy to keep a small veggie/spice garden. Less watering, and less bending over to pick stuff lol.

"watering pipe" is front right


You can see the drain hose on the back bottom portion


Here's the drain pipe used to create the water holding area (super cheap stuff from the hardware store


This year I'm just growing 1 tomato plant, 1 poblano pepper plant, 1 bell pepper plant, 1 jalapeno plant, and some parsley. Went way overboard last season lol. The blue containers in the one pic are more planters built on the same concept, but I'm not running them this season.

 

[revhtree]

Good morning!!

 

[dbowman5]

Happy Hump day!

Here's the planter I was talking about. The construction was pretty heavy duty since it holds a ton of dirt plus water, so it took a few of us to put it together. The whole thing is lined with heavy duty plastic sheet making it water tight. In the bottom is a bunch of perforated drain pipe sheathed in a sleeve/sock. The water is delivered via that PVC pipe you see sticking up. The PVC tube was cut at an angle and then stabbed down in to the drain pipe. On the bottom back of the planter there's a whole drilled with an external drain hose that lets the planter keep about 4-6" of water in the bottom (had to do some sealing to keep from leaking with a copious amount of duct tape). The plant roots draw the water from the bottom once they get long enough.

It's held up pretty dang well for the last few years and makes it easy to keep a small veggie/spice garden. Less watering, and less bending over to pick stuff lol.

"watering pipe" is front right


You can see the drain hose on the back bottom portion


Here's the drain pipe used to create the water holding area (super cheap stuff from the hardware store


This year I'm just growing 1 tomato plant, 1 poblano pepper plant, 1 bell pepper plant, 1 jalapeno plant, and some parsley. Went way overboard last season lol. The blue containers in the one pic are more planters built on the same concept, but I'm not running them this season.

my low tech version is shopvac bodies where i open the drain cover when there is too much water

 

[sp1187]

GOOD MORNING.
I sure do love muggy summer days in Michigan with no AC.
It is summer right? We skipped spring?

 

[Crabs McJones]

GOOD MORNING.
I sure do love muggy summer days in Michigan with no AC.
It is summer right? We skipped spring?

what is spring?

 

[WVNed]

Happy Hump day!

Here's the planter I was talking about. The construction was pretty heavy duty since it holds a ton of dirt plus water, so it took a few of us to put it together. The whole thing is lined with heavy duty plastic sheet making it water tight. In the bottom is a bunch of perforated drain pipe sheathed in a sleeve/sock. The water is delivered via that PVC pipe you see sticking up. The PVC tube was cut at an angle and then stabbed down in to the drain pipe. On the bottom back of the planter there's a whole drilled with an external drain hose that lets the planter keep about 4-6" of water in the bottom (had to do some sealing to keep from leaking with a copious amount of duct tape). The plant roots draw the water from the bottom once they get long enough.

It's held up pretty dang well for the last few years and makes it easy to keep a small veggie/spice garden. Less watering, and less bending over to pick stuff lol.

"watering pipe" is front right


You can see the drain hose on the back bottom portion


Here's the drain pipe used to create the water holding area (super cheap stuff from the hardware store


This year I'm just growing 1 tomato plant, 1 poblano pepper plant, 1 bell pepper plant, 1 jalapeno plant, and some parsley. Went way overboard last season lol. The blue containers in the one pic are more planters built on the same concept, but I'm not running them this season.

That is a very nice deer feeding trough.

 

[WVNed]

I am wondering if I should put some tomato plants up on the deck so I can grow some more of those big green caterpillars

 

[fishguy242]

good morning all....rain again..beats the tstorms and 90's i must say

 

[sp1187]

what is spring?

a mechanical devise.
or a mythical season.

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Morning All. Happy Hump Day!

 

[siggy]

Good Morning Peeps

 

[dbowman5]

Thursday, for those barely awake and wondering. Good morning all. see i said that quietly. NOW WAKE and Face the DAY!!
hee hee

 

[homer1475]

Morning all!

 

[WVNed]

Good morning.

Need coffee

 

[Peace River]

Good morning everyone. Life's little distractions can sometimes be special gifts.

 

[MrsBugmaster]

Good Morning! They are here to open our pool already bright and early this morning. I was trying to sleep in and their call woke me up a little before 8. Guess I'm up for the day now.;Yawn

 

[fishguy242]

good morning all....t-minus x till friday,good thing i am starting to remember what day it is ..yay ..a good start

 

[WiscoFishNut]

Late good afternoon! I don't know about y'all, but I'm going to need a serious vacation to some super chill remote location when all this covid-19 crap finally ends. Each day I feel like things are stressing me out a little more than they should..

 

[dbowman5]

Late good afternoon! I don't know about y'all, but I'm going to need a serious vacation to some super chill remote location when all this covid-19 crap finally ends. Each day I feel like things are stressing me out a little more than they should..

breathe out; breathe in; repeat as necessary.

 

[ScottB]

Late good afternoon! I don't know about y'all, but I'm going to need a serious vacation to some super chill remote location when all this covid-19 crap finally ends. Each day I feel like things are stressing me out a little more than they should..

I feel you on this. Increasinging my ABV% does not seem to be completely resolving things. I heard about a book describing something similar to @dbowman5 suggestion. In it, the author suggests that by practise alone, I could hold my breath for 12 minutes and become an ultra deep diver. A healthy distraction perhaps?