HOW TO MAKE A STRAWBERRY PLANTER. Seeing as this is around the time you should be planting your strawbs I thought it timely to write about this vertical strawberry planter I made a few months back.
Instead of writing about it straight away I thought it would be better to test it first so have waited until it was established, yielding fruit and can advise on where I would do things differently. After I built this, I found a version for sale at a major garden retailer so you can just go and buy one if you can’t be bothered making it but they’re pretty easy to make. You will need: An electric drill with a hole cutting bit that will cut a 5 – 7cm holeA 2 or 3mm drillbit for the watering pipeA length of PVC downpipe 100mm or 150mm diameter. AQUAPONICS. CONTAINER HOME 001. CONTAINER HOMES. Container Homes Approximately 30 million steel shipping containers are in existence, filled and floating, or standing about empty in a port.
Eight feet wide by 8.5 feet high, and either 20 or 40 feet long, the steel shipping container has been the globally standardized transportation module since 1956. Costs of shipping empty containers back to their origin are high, so oft times the containers sit unused in ports. If one lives near a port with abundant containers, then the energy required to transport the steel container to a local building site will be lower than an inland location, far from the port.
But buyer beware, as that used container might have been sprayed with insecticides or fungicides inside, and coated with lead or heavy metal paints on the outside.