My plastic barrel container garden

[Woodwizard]

Our yard has limited flat ground, I came up with an idea to use cut in half plastic barrels there was an ad in the local paper selling them for 6.00 apiece most had soap in them when full.

I cut them in half ran drainage pipe across the bottom for good soil drainage to the bung hole. The hole is about 2.5 inches above the bottom of the barrel so it can retain some water but not water log.

Made frames from pressure treated wood and set them in the hardest part was filling them, I had a ton of good garden soil dropped off from a local farmer about a 100 feet away was the closest he could get his dump truck, with the hill and rocks a wheelbarrow was impractical.

So it went in by 5 gallon plastic buckets, 5 buckets per barrel half. I would do a few in the morning then in the evening when done in my shop, took about 4 days to do it all.

I used 7' tall poly deer fence and 3/4 electrical conduit for posts, had to add electric fence around the base later after being raided by woodchucks.

Last year I canned 98 quarts of tomato salsa a great addition to our cooking throughout the winter.

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