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Thanks champ! I'll have to relocate it before it takes over the whole bed then by the sounds of it I'll have to hook into the waterfall and finish it off soon then!



YES! My layman's babble is awesome

Well bugger me! I just get the water near crystal clear, and this bloody dust storm turns in to mud Can't win!

I finally managed to pick up a couple of mesh houses from Big W, they cost $49 each and they cover my system perfectly! I got them to stave off the frost until I get around to building the green house. It's heaps easier to get into the beds now, no more crouching under the bird netting!

I also put up some new trellis duck barriers after taking down the blockout blind (the wind the other night partially took it down for me!). If I can find a small enough shade sail I'll put it up permanently over the waterfall, and eventually I'll put up a darker section of shade cloth just above the pond.

Wow nice. It certain looks like a great way to get a cheap shade house happening. I've thought of buying something like this just for structure and attaching my own clear liner to it to create the greenhouse. Reuse.

But the real question is, why haven't you planted frost tolerant plants? It's just that we got our first frost today, and I don't have anything covering my plants.

whoa kenny, that cheap tent idea is great!
you've been busy, great work man, looking nice an green.
keep up the good work and a good day to ya!

Looks like a nice place to roll out the swag

I was looking at doing this and thought the gazebo frames were the best, think they were about $99 on special These wouldn't be any good for that I don't thing, they're just to keep the ducks / bugs / frost / birds off!



I have Most of the species I have are cold/frost tolerant, I have a few that aren't that I will cover with plastic for the time being. The reason I have them is because I planned on having a greenhouse up by now, but ran into a few hurdles So opted for the $49 solution! I'm planning an expansion (extra 4 beds) so looking at quite a large green house (at quite a high price...).

brilliant short term solution mate, always thinking.

You started buying from Big W now?
Will have to sell the B shares before anyone realises

lol! I would have got them from B if they had something similar I just noticed them in the W catalogue for $49 and thought them a perfect short term fix! They're 3mx3mx2m, so room enough to stand up in

Kenny,
I scanned your thread but couldn't find what I was looking for.
Since that day I visited your place, I've decided to copy your idea of putting the big pipe in the ground as conduit.

My question is: the small ribbed black pipe is supplying water to the grow beds isn't it?
If so, then the 'conduit' is draining to the waterfall.

if that's correct then great, my next question is are you using bell siphons or slow drains.
I'm wanting to use bell siphons, but am a little worried about the short straight drop, and actually forming a siphon.

hope you can help.
H

I do a short straight drop into a larger pipe

Hey Mate,

From memory you asked that question in another thread, that's why you couldn't find it here I use slow drain so my waterfall is always flowing, it takes spot on 45 minutes to drain with a 9.5mm hole. The rest of your assumptions are spot on, the black ribbed pipe is fed up inside the drainage pipe, so if I get any holes it just flows back down the waterfall.

Hi kenour,

Any chance you could send me a copy of your nice spreadsheet/graph so that I can use this for my new system data?

Love your work!

Cheers,
Hamish

There's every chance! It's pretty basic to modify, have fun.