Time to get the commercial garden ready for the tomato season.
Commercial
Garden
The gallon bleach bottles only last about one or two seasons before they
have to be replaced.
Commercial
Garden
I use a sharp single edge razor blade to cut the bottoms off the bleach
bottles.
Commercial
Garden
A good place to find empty bleach bottles is in dumpsters behind laundry
businesses.
Commercial
Garden
The holes for the bottles are drilled 18 inches apart.
Commercial
Garden
This gallon garden will have three runs forty feet long.
Commercial
Garden
I am going to use 4 inch pipe all the way to the tank so their won't be
any back up of water leading back to the tank. Last year I had a problem with the water
not draining fast enough when I dropped down to a smaller pipe size that returned to the
tank.
Commercial
Garden
The tank sits in an insulated metal box below ground to help keep the
nutrient solution temperature down because water chillers cost to much.
To curl your 2-liter bottles heat an old Teflon coated frying pan to 150
degrees and slowly turn the bottle and it will start to curl inward. Have a 16 ounce solo
cup ready to cram in the soft pliable bottle to form it around the solo cup.