@lightm - I love your signature: "Support your local community. Local hardware store, local feed store, local grocery. There are always alternative to Amazon." DH bought Shout from Amazon a few months ago and I almost imploded. Cheers!
I feel for you and all who've gone through this process. My brother and I did this in 2018 after our mom passed, which is wild that it still feels like yesterday. She had a lot of stuff, but not a hoarder by any means. We also had to deal with her garage that had been housing our grandmothers antique furniture since her passing in '08. We would always go in there and attempt to look through or make decisions, but for my mom and I it was too emotional to be able to act. Just grateful to my bro that he was able to rally so much and get stuff done. I, on the other hand, was a wreck and really leaned on him. It's all hard, in addition to the physical items. Hang in there. And peace be with you and your loved ones.
Thank you. I am certainly still guilty of purchasing on Amazon very occasionally when I am desperate... But starting about half a year ago, we have been buying all meats and dairy from local farms. Something I am very happy about.
I'm really happy with how much water they hold and since there's some hot days coming I'm excited to see how they stand up to the heat. I'm not sure how I'll tackle the bigger IBC because you're right, the draincoils are expensive, like 42 bucks for 8 meters. Vinidex is $138 for 20m. Could do some sort of crate setup instead to create the voids.View attachment 3656558
Those 4-inch drainpipes with the socks are very nice. I just use the perforated 4-inch drainpipes and cover the ends with some landscaping fabric. You don't need to cover the entire pipe with a sock. The soil will not seep into the perforations and clog the drain pipe as long as the ends are covered. For me, it saved a little money.
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Anyways, for those who don't know, the 4-inch drainpipe fills with water which acts as your water reservoir. Then you need to drill a hole in the sidewall, so the bottom of that hole is at 3 inches on the side. That gives you a 1-inch air gap so your plants don't drown.
Those wicking beds and planters are my favorite because it's impossible to overwater them and the water reservoir lasts for a long time. On my planters, I only have to refill the planter about once a month if we get average rainfall. One summer we had a terrible drought, and I had to refill the reservoir once a week. But the plants in the wicking beds never suffered as they had a constant supply of water. Very nice.
The only drawback to the wicking beds is that you have to invest in that drainpipe. However, there are a number of people who use empty plastic bottles and containers in their wicking beds and that works good for them. I'm saving up some half-gallon milk jugs to see if I can get them to work as well in the wicking planters as the drainpipe works. That would cut down the cost.
I went to college in Massachusetts in the late 80's, and went to see a game at Fenway with friends who were Red Sox fans. So glad I got to see the "green monster" in person, really cool...but a bird crapped on my head, slopped all through my hair and shoulder, too bad that's my main memory of such a historic ballpark.
Understand completely.
I have an attachment like that for my Echo power head, but I've hardly used it since I installed raised beds.
This looks more useful!
You got a ton done!I'm tarred...
