A few hours one day, and a couple of more the next… the old play fort from the side of the house is disassembled and out of the way! Not sure when I’ll get to start cutting the IBCs, as I’ll be out of town next weekend, but perhaps that gives me more time to plan.
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Having a fence along an edge of an AP system has been one of the best advantages I never thought of. Just by convenience and happenstance, my first (still only, blush) growbed was set up a foot from my fence. I hang water supply pipe on it. I laid the water return line at its base. I hung some cheap Home Depot green wire fence on the fence and it got colonized (aggressively) by SquashMelonCantaloupe vines, as the Grape Vine happily ran along the top.
I am pretty sure any additional growbeds, when I expand, will drain toward the fence where the 4″ main drain will turn a corner and join the existing 4″ pipe.
Vertical towers can hang on fence and grow strawbs. And/Or, some channels for a stream of Growbed-filtered water can be mounted and run way down a fence, and back! (Recycle Idea: satellite-dish mounting arms, screwed to fence posts, holding about three PVC downspout pipes with holes to host tons of basil or bok choy in cups)
Thanks for the input, Rick! I’m excited about the fence area – it receives enough sun during the non-winter months, and is also out of view from pretty much anyone who might object. I’ve seen some vertical strawberry towers and thought similarly… though I’d likely need to keep the tops below the top of the fence – not sure what the homeowner’s association would say if PVC pipes were sticking up, viewable from a main road.
I’ve also got another area that could do well with the channels, but would need another small AP setup over there. Nat’s second AP setup, perhaps??? We’ll see how this goes, and then start planning the second.