Recycled gardening infrastructure
During a recent trip to
Mark's mom's house (which we still call "going to Ohio"...even though
we now live in Ohio), I stumbled across a couple of innovative
solutions for garden infrastructure that I thought you might enjoy.
First, the no-brainer --- an old stock tank with holes in the bottom
filled with compost to create an herb planter. Pretty and functional!
Next, I snuck over into her neighbor's yard to snap a shot of this interesting pallet mulch/pathway solution. I'll be curious to see how this does in a month or two --- I have a gut feeling it's going to be one of those solutions that looks better on paper than it works in reality. How do I know? I've tried dozens of those solutions myself!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Yeah, at least around here (tropical rainforest Maryland) those pallets would turn into slug convention centers in no time. Believe me,I know.
I bought a 2' deep 6 foot tank to plant in- could not find an old tank. Our yard down in Savannah is very low and floods in the late summer monsoons thus I plant in raised beds and containers.
The farm store I bought stuff at has several with various plantings in them. What they told me to do was fill the bottom foot with rocks, then soil on top, and just leave the drain plug out thus I did not have to drill a new tank full of holes lest I decide I need it to bathe in one day or actually water livestock.