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Author:  vegiegirl [ Jul 3rd, '08, 13:38 ]
Post subject:  Grow beds with curved bases
Does anyone have any experience with grow beds with curved bases? I have the opportunity to get some with curved bases, rather than square, and I figured they might work like gutters and help the water to drain better to the base of the bed?
Author:  Filip [ Jul 3rd, '08, 14:07 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grow beds with curved bases
I would say that a grow bed with a curved base would be advantage to square beds, as long as they are the right depth and volume for the job.

Cheers

Filip
Author:  gokul [ Jul 3rd, '08, 14:39 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grow beds with curved bases
Lots of people use curved bases here.

Half-barrels for example.
Also I think Synaptoman in one of his systems uses pipes a foot in diameter cut in half lenghtwise. For growbeds.

There's seems to be no problem at all in using most shapes of growbeds.
Author:  twintragics2 [ Jul 3rd, '08, 15:10 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grow beds with curved bases
you just need to make sure you get a water tight seal where ur outlet on the base of the growbed is. Nothing a bit of aquarium sealer won't fix.
Author:  gokul [ Jul 3rd, '08, 16:23 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grow beds with curved bases
Or you can use hole-less siphons which I use in one of my growbeds with no problems. I think there is a thread about it and Myles started holeless siphons first.

(I think steve introduced the autosiphon first? Is he the 'inventor' of it or are autosiphons an old thing?)
Author:  EllKayBee [ Jul 3rd, '08, 17:03 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grow beds with curved bases
One of the advantages of square GBs (probably the only one) is they give a uniform depth across the whole area and thus plants near the edge still have a reasonable depth to sink down into as opposed to a half barrel setup...both work very well

Another advantage....square GBs have a large flat base to stabilize the GB where as the half barrels need chunks of wood to stop them rolling :bigsmurf:

From the above you should be able to work out that I have flat beds VG :D
Author:  gnash06 [ Jul 3rd, '08, 17:54 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grow beds with curved bases
I think depth would be the only concern, wasn't too hard to add supports to the GB frames.

Yup, i do blue barrels and like to have them fairly high as I'm 185cm and hate leaning over to work on the system. (just lazy I guess :geek: )
Author:  trentski [ Jul 3rd, '08, 17:58 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grow beds with curved bases
bath tubs make good grow beds, right? right?

they have curved bottoms, right? right?
Author:  gnash06 [ Jul 3rd, '08, 17:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grow beds with curved bases
They also have depth :D
Author:  Outbackozzie [ Jul 3rd, '08, 18:41 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grow beds with curved bases
Since when are you 185 cm, lol you dwarf :D I think you have shrunken since last measured.

vegiegirl, how deep are the beds, that is the only concern.

Anything over 250mm in the middle is generally considered ok.
Author:  vegiegirl [ Jul 4th, '08, 16:40 ]
Post subject:  Re: Grow beds with curved bases
30 cm in the middle - but I can have them up to 45 cm (that's their present height - bought from a scrap yard) - I figured that was too much weight of gravel so was going to get dear old Dad to cut them down ...
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