Lazy Suzan garden
Posted 11-18-2007 at 08:02 PM by commonsensekid
Aloha All
My name is Gaston, I'm 66 yr old and live on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Over the many years of having numerous gardens grown on the ground level, I got frustrated with all the invading bugs and critters and bend over work.
Being handy with welding I put together a revolving lazy Suzan garden, that's 16' across
This garden spins on an old Car wheel welded atop a 6" pipe cemented into the ground, off the edge of the Car wheel rim I attached five triangular racks that hold five 7 gallon grow pots...35 grow pots plus 3 in the center gives me 38 grow pots in all.
The beauty of this is the garden is, it's hip high and no longer do I have to bend over to work the garden or shovel, rake, hoe, pull weeds or swat at fly's and mosquitos in my face.
I can stand in one spot and plant/harvest the whole garden.
There are no bugs, slugs, frogs, rats, cat, dogs, ect, very little weed problem, or anything that will disrupt my continual food supply.
Also the garden rotates easily on it's own, via the trade wind breezes, this confuses any flying insects looking for a free lunch.
I have mounted the garden on a hillside slope so the grow pots are hip high on one side and chest high on the other side...this lets me examine/harvest the vegetables from top to bottom with ease.
Another good point of this type of garden is it can supply food in a tight space with only a crack of Sun shine to offer, being as it will spin (may need to motorize it) exposing all plants to Sun shine.
This is the best garden I have ever had working for me.
My next experimental garden will look like this> using a 20+ foot long aluminum extension ladder laying horizontally at hip height, supported by 3 columns of cement building blocks...on the surface of the ladder will be 10 or more 2'L X 3' W X 8" deep ACE Hardware plastic cement mixing trays.
Using a 1" hole saw, make six drain holes, use 2" of crushed rock for drainage, fill with your favorite soil mix and fert...prestO your covered when the food supply starts to diminish as the world goes through it's changes...if you ever move, you can take the garden with you!
Love you folks ~Gaston~
My name is Gaston, I'm 66 yr old and live on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Over the many years of having numerous gardens grown on the ground level, I got frustrated with all the invading bugs and critters and bend over work.
Being handy with welding I put together a revolving lazy Suzan garden, that's 16' across
This garden spins on an old Car wheel welded atop a 6" pipe cemented into the ground, off the edge of the Car wheel rim I attached five triangular racks that hold five 7 gallon grow pots...35 grow pots plus 3 in the center gives me 38 grow pots in all.
The beauty of this is the garden is, it's hip high and no longer do I have to bend over to work the garden or shovel, rake, hoe, pull weeds or swat at fly's and mosquitos in my face.
I can stand in one spot and plant/harvest the whole garden.
There are no bugs, slugs, frogs, rats, cat, dogs, ect, very little weed problem, or anything that will disrupt my continual food supply.
Also the garden rotates easily on it's own, via the trade wind breezes, this confuses any flying insects looking for a free lunch.
I have mounted the garden on a hillside slope so the grow pots are hip high on one side and chest high on the other side...this lets me examine/harvest the vegetables from top to bottom with ease.
Another good point of this type of garden is it can supply food in a tight space with only a crack of Sun shine to offer, being as it will spin (may need to motorize it) exposing all plants to Sun shine.
This is the best garden I have ever had working for me.
My next experimental garden will look like this> using a 20+ foot long aluminum extension ladder laying horizontally at hip height, supported by 3 columns of cement building blocks...on the surface of the ladder will be 10 or more 2'L X 3' W X 8" deep ACE Hardware plastic cement mixing trays.
Using a 1" hole saw, make six drain holes, use 2" of crushed rock for drainage, fill with your favorite soil mix and fert...prestO your covered when the food supply starts to diminish as the world goes through it's changes...if you ever move, you can take the garden with you!
Love you folks ~Gaston~
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Pics Please!Wow, that sounds amazing. Can you post pictures? If you upload them to a flickr.com or picasaweb account (both free), you can add them to your posts by clicking the little icon with the mountain and sun, and then pasting the URL of your photos into the dialog box. I'd love to see what this looks like!
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Yes, I would love to see what this garden looks like. A fascinating experiment and it sounds like it's working out perfectly for you. I'm impressed by how well your design is taking care of the bug problems. How long did this take to complete?
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