Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 241Jan 04, 2013 1:12 pm Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 245Feb 07, 2013 11:55 am Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 249Feb 24, 2013 10:10 pm Fu Manchu To add to this massive thread. Get this book: http://littleveggiepatchco.com.au/the-book/ Feel it. Touch it. Smell it's knowledge ooze from its hilarious pages. It is your new garden bible. Throw away your other books into the compost. Your life will be complete Ohh thanks for the book rec. Sounds like it could be my next fave read. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 250May 24, 2013 7:35 pm Hi folks, two questions 1. raised vegie garden beds, what sleepers to use? We've heard treated pine will contaminate food. 2. Drip irrigation. We want to set up a drip irrigation system subsoil during building process. We want to be able to feed it off both a rain water tank gravity feed (yes tank is higher) and when that is dry normal mains water. Any suggestions? Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 251May 25, 2013 3:01 pm Hi animal, Just reading through your blog and noting where you have made some big cost savings during the house design stage. Good reading! There are threads about sub soil irrigation and drip hoses. Fu is the expert here but for gardens, I always use gravity fed drip hoses laid under the mulch rather than standard drip hoses when feeding from a water tank. The gravity fed hoses have larger emitters whereas the standard drip hoses should have an inline filter on the supply line and need more pressure. Gravity fed drip hoses are best supplied by a larger poly main line and drip hose branches are best plumbed as a loop back to the main line. Main line inline taps will also isolate sections of drip hose when needed. You have a regular and high rainfall pattern in your area and with an annual rainfall of around 1,500 mm, your tank should be constantly replenished. Even the driest months of August & September deliver on average 80 mm of rain each month! You can easily reduce the rainwater harvesting costs. If you are also supplying sanitary flushing, have a look at the linked thread below. viewtopic.php?f=35&t=61491 If you are connecting the water tank pump to an outside garden tap, also read the next linked thread. viewtopic.php?f=35&t=61588 You can also save money by ditching the 5,000 litre colorbond slimline tank and getting two narrow base taller poly tanks. The slimline tank shown on the plans (off your blog) appears to be about 2.7 m long x 1.4 m wide. I am in Victoria but I have linked two tanks (below) that will give an indication of alternate size and price. The first ($495) is 2100 L, 2 m tall with a 1.2 m diameter. The second ($440) is 2250 L, 2.1 m tall with a 1.25 m diameter. http://www.asctanks.com.au/urban-poly-b ... ound-tank/ http://www.asctanks.com.au/pro-plastics-2100lt-round/ A problem I see with the slimline as per your plans is that it covers the downpipe's flow path. While you may have intended to option the tank with an inlet so that the downpipe will divert to a top meshed inlet, have you thought about how the tank's overflow is going to reconnect back to the stormwater? There appears to be little room between the end of the tank and the external shower structure. Having two tall tanks with narrow bases in lieu of the slimline will overcome the return to stormwater issue plus other issues with (some) slimlines - internal cleaning for one. If regulations deem that you need more capacity, simply site another tall round away from the first two and link them. You can also height adjust the third tank to eliminate the need for an overflow pipe if it serves as a buffer tank. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 252May 26, 2013 7:36 pm Thanks heaps H20 saver I'll have to come back to your post mid week more thoroughly. Why is a slimline tank harder to clean? Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 253May 26, 2013 7:58 pm animal-re: the treated pine edging for your vegies..there are two different treatments-one of which uses arsenic and I believe gives that blue/green tinge and is the one to avoid. When you are ordering make sure that you tell them that it's for vegetable gardening. Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 254May 26, 2013 8:42 pm There are different designs of slimline tank. The difficult ones to clean are the poly 'honeycomb' type I have linked below as you can only access the area directly underneath the top inlet. http://www.precisionpoly.com.au/Slimlin ... Tanks.html The colorbond type should also have an access inlet at both ends on the top so that it is easy to hose out the bottom every few years. Tank overflow pipes are fitted with mosquito proof mesh and this mesh can gum up. The mesh needs to be accessible from above but many slimlines are wrongly optioned with the top meshed inlet at one end or in the middle but the overflow at the other. The inlet should also not be directly directly above the bottom outlet that supplies the pump for obvious reasons. Corrugated metal tanks are often optioned with the pump draw outlet fitted to the bottom corrugation. This means that the bottom of the outlet is very close to the bottom of the tank. Once the tank has been harvesting water for a while and builds up a sediment layer, the low inlet will cause the pump to ingest sediment. The pump draw outlet should never be optioned close to the bottom of the tank (as most are). It is always handy to have a dedicated flush/drain valve fitted to the bottom of the tank. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 255May 26, 2013 8:53 pm thanks, I took a photo of where the tank is going, the foundation is poured. The pipe right next to the tank slab I assume is for tank overflow. the far side pipe a little away is shower drain. (I don't know how to load the picture here, but it's on tipypic Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=34oojt5&s=5 I will try and find out what they've arranged. THIS FORUM IS THE SCHNITZEL! Thanks heaps folks, you're amazing. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 256May 26, 2013 9:05 pm They must be planning to dog leg the overflow pipe unless they plan to plumb the outlet to the corner of the tank. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 257Mar 18, 2014 8:20 pm [quote="animal"]Hi folks, two questions
1. raised vegie garden beds, what sleepers to use? We've heard treated pine will contaminate food. We lined non-toxic HDPE liner in our garden bed, not only to isolate soil from treated pine, but also avoid loss of water , search "HDPE liner" on gumtree or ebay, you will find plenty Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 258Mar 18, 2014 9:10 pm -Moo- Fu Manchu To add to this massive thread. Get this book: http://littleveggiepatchco.com.au/the-book/ Feel it. Touch it. Smell it's knowledge ooze from its hilarious pages. It is your new garden bible. Throw away your other books into the compost. Your life will be complete Ohh thanks for the book rec. Sounds like it could be my next fave read. arrggggh what was the book? The link doesn't work! Re: Vegetable Growing: A guide for home gardeners 260Jun 12, 2014 10:06 pm Question, how many fruit trees do you think we need to sustain our family. I will be looking to plant Mandarin, Orange and Apple Trees. We have purchased an acre so I can finally put in plants that will produce fruit for us. Not to mention the veggie patch. Strawberries and blueberries are on the list. I have grown both before but with the strawberries we never got to enjoy them as the slugs and birds got to them first. Any hints and tips for the strawberries.... Help!! I’m meant to start building soon and have only really just learnt about orientation. Im reading so much that no grass will grow on the heavily shaded south… 0 1584 We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. That’s why we… 5 18363 Hi, you've probably already resolved this, however, Commbank will probably pay the funds to you after you send evidence the work is done regardless the change in the quotes. 1 36595 |