Wheres the pictures Dunc?.........Without pictures....it didn't happen!
well work in progress due to to much water in the oxygen
Heres the beds started
one filled and planted with Onions have added the poly cover to keep the rain out
its a 2" x 2" frame with 5off 2m hoops of 25mm blue pipe these are slotted over some 15mm copper pipe pushed into the frame 2M poly is then stapled to the frame
so you have to lift the whole thing off its also raised 2" at he moment to let air in . I've now got 32mm pipe and hope to go like yours to a 3m hoop for extra height and have the net side liftable for access to save removing the whole frame or bin the frame and fix the hoops direct to the bed.
the bed next to it shows how its done basically 8x 4 ft beds out of 9" x 2 1/4" planks
Ive dug down an extra 8" or so and binned the soil as its heavily contaminated with Couch and Mares tail
this is lined with weed mat and then refilled with sieved topsoil and compost the second bed is actually half full of soil but is now a Mud soup due to rain and no drainage
hopefully when its drier this will act as a water sump and the raised bit will not get water logged but this heavy soil will need a lot of compost added to get free draining
and i will probably dig in some drain piping in the center walkway to take it away
the plan is for 5 pairs of these beds in this lower area and some more in the upper bit to the right by the wall
a sample of the couch and mares tail root i found on the surface under the existing weed mat approx 1.5 wheel barrows
Here is the Water distribution plan luckily gravity will do all the work
the 2 IBC tanks will be placed behind my workshop at the yellow square then run pipe work along and down to the green house and to the beds
Hoping to get beds individually plumbed but cost may prohibit or slow that down
IBC outlet to 32mm pipe fitting
the emergancy secondary water storage is a newly cleaned out pond I estimate holds 25-30 thousand liters
Brown pipe is the newly diverted old sewage system that now takes all the rain water from the house roof. Tho showing how and it it the water coming out at he moment isnt roof water its ground water leaking into the old pipes
the grey pipe to the right is a divert from a ditch that runs thro the property and drains the 20 acre field basin above us its dry most of the time but now the ground is water logged it floods quickly in a downpour. In fat when i first put the pipe in it filled the pond to its over flow in a morning light rain ( same amount took the roof run off 1 week ) and over night over filled the pond to 4" above the top of the pipe so i now have a stop cap in the upper ind and the water uses the normal ditch
Pond was like this when we moved in
reed bed roots where a solid 18" thick ( is looking out over where the brown pipe is now SEB took out the Willows as there is a power line above )
on the soils ive been using a Trommel to sieve it tho its not currently motorised its a big help over a hand riddle
hopfully with a motor on it will work like this on
[video=youtube;z-5Txtj0HlU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-5Txtj0HlU[/video]
