New way of constructing veggie beds, more efficient watering, increased yields !

[Scarlet]

I did state weekly watering which is wrong, I water daily.

Could you also explain how "more efficient watering" per your title thread...is watering daily

I'm on a water metre, plants get watered in when they are first planted up or sown and then they have to wait for the rain. Most allotments don't have water available except via runoff from sheds of GHs etc...this is usually used for undercover crops.

[no_akira]

That's what we like objectivity from a forum moderator...

[Scarlet]

Ive just asked a question? Can you answer it?

[bearded bloke]

Your second picture causes me great concern, for the health & safety of yourself & any visitors to your plot, it's a 'schoolboy error' I can actually remember being told about it in rural science class at secondary school.

[bearded bloke]

That's what we like objectivity from a forum moderator...

Please keep your posts respectful, moderators are also members & as members are allowed to post comments.
Scarlet made a post as a member, however I'm making this post as a moderator

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Another idea, heras panel expandable cloche for my chilli peppers and aubergines. Not sure how successful the aubergines are going to be but they're doing better than last year so fingers crossed.
NOTE: The pallet divider is the crucial part of this design as the cloche hinges off it. Also rain running off the cloche goes into the pallet voids... very clever.

Your second picture causes me great concern, for the health & safety of yourself & any visitors to your plot, it's a 'schoolboy error' I can actually remember being told about it in rural science class at secondary school.

Is this one of those h+s pics where you say how many potential hazards you see?

The spade and rake shouldn't be left on the floor, if that is really the best place the heads should be the other way round. (ok who is going to post the comic rake/ trip thing )

Ummm, what else.....

[bearded bloke]

Bang on Ng

[bearded bloke]

Reading this thread from the beginning I see .....

Well I took my idea to the Edible Garden show (stand 554) near Coventry at the weekend.

I displayed the new easier constructed design for people to copy for use on their own allotments.

That's a bugg@r, I was at that, shame you never posted in either of these threads ...

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...6-a_88553.html

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...6-a_86438.html

..... or I most certainly would have found you for a look at & chatter about this project in 'real time'
The EGS is now a thing of the past, but if you are at any other shows a mention in the chat thread would, I'm sure see your visitor numbers increase.

[marchogaeth]

If it works for you, thats great....I will stick with me upside down modified pop bottle....much less work

Been all the way through these posts today. I agreed with G4 last year and still agree today, especially if the bottles are doubled so the bottom one has soil/stone/sand in so the water runs through slowly. I would worry that the water was running through too quickly if the natural water table was well below the crops.

I've also read the OPs web site carefully. I'm sure you don't mean to be unkind no Akira but do you know the young lady with the key hole garden doesn't understand the science? This is meant as a kindly observation.

[no_akira]

Have you got any photos of the crops you've harvested so far?

Was a little bit late with stuff this year

[Cadalot]

I've read the whole thread and personally I think its a lot of effort for very little gain, to water at depth I bore a hole and insert a pop bottle with mapping pin holes all round and then extend the bottles by cutting the bottoms off and stacking one inside the other as the vegetables grow.

If I was to use a French drain approach to watering which is what this basically is, why would I need a wood which will rot or a bespoke plastic former? a line of pop bottles with holes in filled with stones would work just as well.

For my fruit trees in buckets in the ground a simple small coke bottle with a coke bottle full of sand as a plug lets me water at depth. I filled it with sand as the empty one in the picture blew out of the plug hole!

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Was a little bit late with stuff this year

I thought the point of the pallet was watering. I am confused as in one pic you have watering bottles, one pic a wet patch from watering and another pic where all the ground is wet (although that could just be rain)

[veggiechicken]

Re the dangerous rake - that's why there's a "roof" - when you step on the end of the rake, and it flies up towards you, the "roof" stops it slapping you in the face!
I can think of a good modification to the structure in the photo but I'm not going to share it here as I don't want it appearing in the next redesign uncredited

[bearded bloke]

I also can see a design improvement VC, wonder if it's the same one as yours

That aside, I'm wondering why the ground beside the pallet is saturated, yet the pallet is virtually 'bone dry'...



... I may be wrong (I've not quite fully read the thread, I'm currently looking at the links in an earlier post) but I thought the idea was to water inside the pallet & let it seep out slowly

[veggiechicken]

Its a difficult thread to follow because the concept changes each time the OP posts.
I'm really not sure what replies are expected? Comments are either ignored or treated with disdain.
I only read it because I have to as a Moderator.
Quite frankly, I think the thread has exhausted itself.