Recent content by chinchillin

Thanks man! I just bought some good cheap wood charcoal that's already been grinded down a bit. Next is just activating it. Will use hydroton too and we can conclude together :)

It's a small yard surrounded by neighbors. It's a new development so I don't want to give any negative impressions, which I know will happen, to my new neighbors that we will have to work with for at least the next year. It sounds dumb but in this country the importance and need of/for respect +...

I don't. It seems like they sell to people commercially but, I have no way of contacting their customers or would even want to. Farmers some times have a certain type of attitude to those types of inquiries. They said that in acidic soils you could use up to 30% and beyond the humic leaching it...

I'm about to start some raised garden beds that will have around 1000L of soil + vermicompost. Thus I need the commonly suggested 1/3 or 500 L of aeration. Pumice seems to be the easiest go to recommendation but, in my country, with how much I would need, it would cost more than the soil +...

I've been hearing that too with geotextile. Perhaps it's a piece of mind thing in thinking that it will block the rest of the stuff falling in. Here is the general idea. In mine, the bulkhead drain will have a pipe that goes into one of those corrugated pipes. Hopefully that will ensure that...

Right on man and thank you!

yes but, this will be a raised bed with geotextile, and some hay, separating the reservoir and the soil. With a 16cm corrugated pipes, you can put a drain pipe positioned inside to provide that 2-4cm (1") air gap. The wicking would start from the bed floor via the sand/rock/peat being nudged...

Looking back at it, my post was a bit confusing. The setup will be exactly like this. Will try to get slightly bigger gaps for geotextile, vermiculite, stones and course sand to go in between and on top. Thanks to the thread I tried a 25L cloth pot sitting on top of a perlite 10 cm deep...

Found this. fabric vs. plastic pots

Apologies but, oddly enough I couldn't find the answer after some searching. How high can the medium section of the swick be and still have some moisture? I'm planning to have a raised bed with a 10-15cm reservoir area and was told that 30cm is the absolute limit. What if we were talking about...

Asking here since I don't want to add another thread discussing what's already here. I want to start growing some cherry tomatoes and strawberries in a 30cm deep 1x2m raised garden bed with perforated pipes down below. Just to clarify... having that reservoir, with an air gap, would mitigate...

That was me posting it :) It looked like it worked for him. In another one of his videos he checked out a buddy's sand wicking bed and there was some green stuff on the surface. There wasn't an explanation of what it was or why. I looked up what sands to use and they say "coarse sand" I guess...

Hello. I'll be using this for an outdoor cherry tomato grow. I'm worried about organic matter forming in the perlite but that a baseless worry atm. I was wondering what else beyond perlite can be used in the reservoir to sit the cloth bag on. The resevoir itself is a bucket cut tall enough...