Hill Country Heritage Garden - Carolyn and Michael Williams
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| Vicki Blachman giving a presentation on making your own herbal vinegars |
Hill Country Rural Home - Dave and Jennifer Phillips
Neighboring Gardens of Donnis Doyle / Ann & Robin Matthews
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| Squirrel-proof bird feeder made of PVC pipe and an old satellite dish |
5 comments:
Thanks for posting the various things that catch your eye as a gardener. I noticed in one of your photos, a couple using galvanized waterers. What intrigues me - as I get older - is the possibility of using these in lieu of raised beds to elevate my work platform even higher. Less bending over which is getting to be a lot more impportant to me. Do you know of any reason galvanized containers might prove hazardous to vegetable crops? I'm assuming they provided some type of drainage system. Anyway, thanks for posting the pictures. It got me to thinking about alternatives.
E Brashear
Thanks for posting the various things that catch your eye as a gardener. I noticed in one of your photos, a couple using galvanized waterers. What intrigues me - as I get older - is the possibility of using these in lieu of raised beds to elevate my work platform even higher. Less bending over which is getting to be a lot more impportant to me. Do you know of any reason galvanized containers might prove hazardous to vegetable crops? I'm assuming they provided some type of drainage system. Anyway, thanks for posting the pictures. It got me to thinking about alternatives.
E Brashear
Ercel - as far as I know, the galvanized steel tanks won't leach anything into your food crops. For drainage I've heard of people both drilling a bunch of holes in the bottom or removing the bottom entirely.
Went shopping for galvanized water troughs. Not cheap, but should be a once-in-a-very-long-time purchase. I would need to drill holes in the bottom to get water piped into each one. The other thing I note is the need for the trough to be on a level pad of some sort or it would wind up leaning. The metal doesn't seem to be geared for uneven side pressures. But, imminently a doable solution.
Ercel
Went shopping for galvanized water troughs. Not cheap, but should be a once-in-a-very-long-time purchase. I would need to drill holes in the bottom to get water piped into each one. The other thing I note is the need for the trough to be on a level pad of some sort or it would wind up leaning. The metal doesn't seem to be geared for uneven side pressures. But, imminently a doable solution.
Ercel
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