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The Great Garden Pipe - June 2018
This pipe can be used all over your garden for both compost and watering. If you place these pipes strategically around your garden, by the fruit trees, next to your veggie garden, in garden beds, you can use them for your compost, as an inground worm farm, and/or to water your garden.
You need to get a plastic water downpipe, a decent size in diameter, and in about 1 metre long lengths, as well as a way to cap the pipe. The pipe and sometime the caps you can often get from just asking around, salvage yards, builders offcuts, gumtree, freecycle etc. it doesn't matter what they look like, most of the pipe will be in the ground.
With the length of pipe drill a few holes, using a spade bit if you can, so you can fit a finger in the hole every 10 cm or so up the sides of the pipe. Dig a hole 3/4 the height of the pipe (helpful if you can borrow an auger or post hole digging shovel). Put the pipe into the hole, making sure it is reasonably level, then backfill around the pipe with some of the earth you have just dug out. Fit the cap and you are ready to go.
You can use a saucer, or even a small pot plant for decoration if you want, you can even get the kids to paint them in bright colours to make them a feature.
Contributed by Denise Scotford
You need to get a plastic water downpipe, a decent size in diameter, and in about 1 metre long lengths, as well as a way to cap the pipe. The pipe and sometime the caps you can often get from just asking around, salvage yards, builders offcuts, gumtree, freecycle etc. it doesn't matter what they look like, most of the pipe will be in the ground.
With the length of pipe drill a few holes, using a spade bit if you can, so you can fit a finger in the hole every 10 cm or so up the sides of the pipe. Dig a hole 3/4 the height of the pipe (helpful if you can borrow an auger or post hole digging shovel). Put the pipe into the hole, making sure it is reasonably level, then backfill around the pipe with some of the earth you have just dug out. Fit the cap and you are ready to go.
You can use a saucer, or even a small pot plant for decoration if you want, you can even get the kids to paint them in bright colours to make them a feature.
Contributed by Denise Scotford