Posted on 04/12/2013 3:21:07 PM PDT by Kartographer
I have been busy with my Pallet Dismantling bar again, and this time I have made slot together pyramid garden planter from the reclaimed Pallet timbers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipQLy-0Pfag
This planter took me approximately 90 minutes to make: The design is simple, and so is the required level of woodworking skill, the only tools required are a square, pencil, electric/cordless drill and suitable spade end drill bit, and a tenon saw; although a chisel and some sand paper would be useful for tidying up the slip joints.
I cut down some 2.4 metre long pallet deck planks that were 9 cm wide and 1.9 cm thick to 1.9 mtrs long for the base tier so that the tier inside the slip joints is a 1.8 mtr X 1.8 mtr square
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You can grow rice in any 10” high container that holds water. 6” of dirt covered with 2” of water for 100 days depending of rice type. I grew the Japanese sticky rice.
My growing season is very short. The rice finished growing indoors. When I brought it indoors in October, it still looked like blades of grass. By December I had a cup of rice. I started a new batch indoors two weeks ago. They have already germinated.
uhm...ok... those are wimpy wheels!
How neat that is. How big was your container?
...goes to a video called "Pallet Dismantling/Stripping Bar® by Cargo Cycles". Nothing about the article you linked to.
Any old stockpot would do. My pot is 10” high and 11” wide. I made a mark at 8” high inside so when water evaporated I’d know to what level it should be added. I think I sowed about 100 seeds. The seeds have to have their covering (I forget what it’s called)in order to sprout. The grocery store rice won’t grow.
Eeexcellent idea!
Nice! My local customers are totally into the Square Foot Gardening system this season. This is an off-shoot, but very do-able. :)
my weekly prep was ordering potassium iodide tea tree oil n heirloom seeds. last week i learned to make tortilla. this weekend i plant seeds in garde. next big project is solar. this subject is sooo confusing to me. volts x amps = watts. inverters controllers panels batteries sheesh
So it would take up quite a bit of space to grow your own and have enough to last to the next season, and quite a bit of seed too.
100 seeds is about a teaspoon of rice. I could have fit over 500 seeds easily in that 10" pot. A blade of rice grass produced approx 15 seeds.
"Next season" doesn't apply here. If a new pot is started every few weeks indoors then one would always have a constant fresh supply of rice after 100 days or less! Consider it as an exotic house plant which needs no weeding or pruning.
For container growing, I really like my Earthboxes (http://www.earthbox.com). They are based on a soil-less system where you add fertilizer and minerals to a peat based mix. It has to be bottom watered so the container is covered to prevent top watering. Sounds weird, but these things produce so much more than in-ground planting. They have a section on their website explaining the science behind it.
One Grape tomato plant produced almost a cup a day for months last year.
In west Michigan here. Started my romaine lettuce just after Easter as usual in my very large pot with a plexiglass sheet over it. I have the best results with romaine lettuce, also called “paris cos” on the packet. It LOVES being transplanted, so when it is nice and thick and about 4” tall I pull it out in chunks, spread it out in a line and plant in rows in the garden. I don’t even try and separate the plants. I have a great yield and start up a new batch of seedlings when the first come out of the pot so I have 3 crops at least each year. Other leaf lettuces just seem to lay flat even though I have great well tested soil. The romaine has a crunchy spine and it always stand up nice and straight.
Thanks for the link, I’ll check it out. So how many milk jugs do you figure it would take to grow a lb. of rice?
I wish I had spare pallets. I need them to stack firewood.
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