That's OK. Wifey and I covered our garden today for the hard freeze tonight.
Because of my ribs the docs do not wanting me bending any more than I have to. I was looking at raised garden beds but the kits completely nuts.
I wonder what it would cost to build something like this with treated lumber and with the beds at around a 3 foot height so I did not have to bend much.
Anyone have any idea of cost?
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The cows eat the garden that way around my crib.Old guttering attached to your fence also provides non-bend over gardening.
My brother did that a few years ago. He had 55gal plastic drums split lengthwise filled with pea gravel, and one of those big totes with fish in it. He fed the fish, the fish pooped in the water, and PVC piping carried the poo water up to the plants in the pea gravel. It seems like it worked OK, but I don't know why he quit doing it (though I think he stopped doing it about the time he got started with chickens).A true hydroponics system uses a tank full of water and fish and circulated the fishy crap water through the plant troughs which feeds the plants and you just feed the fish, so you end up harvesting large fish and vegetables and simply replace the fish with more small ones.
Here's a pretty large setup
Does the metal heat the soil up to much during the summer months? Wife is afraid of roasted veggies before we get them picked.
Is there any shade around your beds? I use to have 16 raised beds that were on the east side of some of my shade trees. The shade would hit about 6 in the evening so it made cooler picking and tending to my plants. Just a thought.This is new for us, so zero experience so far.. We had to do something for our backs and knees though.. Mulching and watering "should" keep the excess heat at bay, fingers crossed..
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