New & Improved Self Water Container Systems

 

 

Permaculture Garden Ways

Our Self Water Container Garden Systems
continue to be one of our favorites. We have several raised gardens including a tire garden using this idea. They are connected to a series of rain barrels - this makes for good use of our most valuable resource, water..

 

We made some changes for a new and improved system. The most important design change was to the tire garden beds. We replaced the 1/4” flexible tubing with 1/2” pvc pipe. With these and other improvements, we are hoping to eliminate the yearly clean out.

 

We implemented this in a couple different ways. We converted an 18’ brick raised garden. The piping layout was easy but increased in complexity when we designed it for our circular grow beds. Everything had to be pre-planned since the pipes aren’t flexible.

 

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The hope is to make this an easier gardening experience for the kids’ Grandparents.

 

In our new circular tire garden, we planted herbs. We used metal paints to brighten up the dreary tires. We like oil-based paints because of their vibrancy. They adhered well to the tires, only requiring one coat.

 

The tire flower design information was found on youtube. Click here to see “ProjectGreenTV”s Tire Flowers

 

Next season, we will continue to add more of these systems in conjunction with installing more rainwater barrels. But for now, we still have time to catch the last of the growing season :)

 

 

Shelly
September 2013