🌱 Vertical bed with his hands: use a sewer pipe

Fascinated vacationers constantly used all new inventions for the modernization of the kitchen garden. Interesting watering system, various protection from weeds and pests, special beds - all this passes quickly let the idea of the Internet to implementation on its site and verified in practice. Most often in the course are available materials. So Olga Linets from Moscow turned out to be handy piece of sewer pipe. What she did with it as it can be used to grow strawberries, you will learn of a material that Olga had sent to the editor HouseChief.

Have a nice day and the mood! I live in a small village, as they say, on the ground, and did not miss the bustling city, from which my husband and I moved a year ago. We have a small house, garden five hundred and that is all that is needed. We both have remote work, so I think that we were lucky. We can at the same time and enjoy nature, and have a stable income. I want to share my little practical experience in the creation of vertical beds for strawberries. From concept to landing it took me just a couple of hours, so it really is quite simple.

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1 Why do I need a vertical bed
2 I used to work
3 pipe preparation
4 Build irrigation system
5 Installing and filling the vertical beds

Why do I need a vertical bed

As I said, the site we have a small vegetable garden and a total of 5 acres. It's a little, so you need a clear plan for each meter. There Teplicka for tomatoes, cucumber bed, planting carrots and beets, salad greens. And yet I always wanted to breed klubnichnik, but for this sunny fruit to find a place, and its something just is not enough. It is because of this that I was wondering about the vertical garden of, especially since the Internet are many examples of such structures, which have been successfully operated in different regions.

For the experiment, I decided to use a six-foot piece of plastic sewer pipe, which we lay with the date of repair sewer.

I used to work

In addition to the piece of pipe it took me another two-meter pipe plastic small diameter piece geotextile, tape, twine, tape, and a marker drill nozzle for cutting round holes, emery and construction knife.

So I gathered all in one place and ready to start work

pipe preparation

I began, of course, with the marking. To do this, it took me a tape and a marker.

On the tube I made a mark every 30 cm. I will have two rows of holes that I staggered

For these marks I drill out circular openings with a special nozzle. I originally bought the instrument with a diameter of 7 cm, and then realized it was too much. Next time I'll use pyatisantimetrovym

After cutting out of the holes turned uneven edge with burrs. That they have not hurt my strawberry, I treat them with sandpaper to complete smoothness

All pipe is ready for use.

Build irrigation system

watering system in the garden of a specific. You know, the design is almost sealed, and the water should somehow get inside. Just water the bushes from a watering can in the vertical holes will be uncomfortable. That is why the irrigation system will be located in the vertical beds, so - inside the pipe.

Basis internal watering - a pipe with a smaller diameter. I made it through holes every seven to ten centimeters with a drill. Leaving only the tip of the whole twenty centimeters

That because of uneven edges of the holes are not clogged, I cleaned the blade of the knife construction

If you simply insert a tube into a bed, she immediately clogged with soil, and watering will not operate.

To avoid this, I wrapped in a piece of pipe watering geotextile

The lower end of the pipe rolled up tape

To geotextile not reversed itself, she cemented her twine

It remains only to insert this into my watering system vertical ridges.

Installing and filling the vertical beds

For the final installation of the pipe stub and I needed special clamps that need to be fixed on a support.

At the lower end of the tube I wore the cap, it will record the contents of the beds

Then simply put the clamps in the design, by the way, the pipe effortlessly removed from them, so that in the winter I shall omit his flower bed on the ground and zasyplyu foliage, that it is not destroyed by frost

Fill the bed of convenient ground using just such improvised funnel. It must be inserted into the hole and cover up the earth scoop

Since I missed a little bit with the size of landing sites, I cemented serpyanku ground that it does not spill. Later, the root system of strawberries razrastotsya, and there will be nothing to sleep. Serpyanku I taped with tape

After landing every bush I spilled soil from the hole on top

The first time my strawberries, "sad", hung up the leaves. It was the stress of the transplant, which took place a week later.

And in my first season crop planting pleased me

It was an experiment which I think is good. On one pipe, I planted 12 bushes. Pick berries convenient whiskers strawberries do not survive, do not rot berries, as they have no contact with the soil. In short, the benefits of solid. My plan to make more pieces of the next year, eight of the beds, and I think we have strawberries themselves provide.

If someone come in handy in my experience, I will be very happy!

Thank you, Olga! You have sent excellent photos and detailed recommendations, which will allow everyone to repeat your experience. Vertical ridges - a fairly common technique in the cultivation of strawberries, and many say that it is effective. In addition, we offer our readers here is a little video with a detailed description of the process:

We look forward to your impressions and thoughts on the subject in the comments, as well as new materials under the heading "not a woman's business." For sure, you have your own inventions and unique experience. Share it, it's very interesting!

Photo: Olga Lunets

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