Ben growing edibles videos

[Logan]

He never mentioned the gutter system which is brilliant.

I've just googled that because I haven't heard of it before.

 

[Tincasteve]

Rain falls on the greenhouse, runs into a water butt, from the tap on the butt runs a pipe into the greenhouse into a very small cistern with a ball valve, from the cistern pipes run into capped end rain gutters so to keep a 2" deep level. The gutter is screwed between two 6x2 beams that take the weight of the tubs . The tubs need a hole cut into the bottom using a tank cutter, into the hole you place small water plant pots. When you fill the tubs with soil fill the water plant pot as this wicks up the water into the tub ,fill the tub completely and replace the lid ( lid has a similar sized hole as the tub) and plant through this hole, being covered it helps to stop evaporation. Also add a fitting at top top of the water butt so it can be filled if it does not rain.
If you want photos I can do that day after tomorrow as I'm going fishing tomorrow.

 

[Tincasteve]

 

[Tincasteve]

Biggest difference is mine are inside the greenhouse and all 4 gutters are fed from one small cistern . Also growing indeterminate toms means I train mine to grow around 2 canes per tub which are in holes drilled into the top of the 6x2 beams. That way I can get 10ft of tomato plant into a 5 foot space. The greenhouse cucumber plants get to about 30ft going back and forth across the back of the greenhouse. I can go fishing for a week and not worry about SWMBO not watering my beef toms.

 

[Logan]

Thanks that's very informative.

 

[Logan]

 

[Logan]

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