DIY Trugs

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Yana

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DIY Trugs
« on: March 24, 2012, 18:44 »
I tried to post this earlier and made a complete mess so I will try again.....

I was looking though a magazine and saw a large vegetable trug and wondered if I could build one similar. Anyways the OH got involved and hey presto this is what Ive got......
two trugs that are 2.4m long, 60cm wide and 70 cm high with internal draingage and off the ground for easy use. And one trug 1.8m long, 60 cm wide and 70cm high. They are bril! I even made fleece covers for them. They are going to be well used this year.

The piece of wood is to deter cats from climbing over the fleece. Seems to work.
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I have my own cement mixer and not afraid to use it!!

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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2012, 19:29 »
Well done  :D
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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2012, 13:11 »
Hi
Were building a trug too but not sure what type of liner to use, any ideas? If it's permeable it will let water through onto our patio, if it's waterproof, will the water gather? Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

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Aunt Sally

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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2012, 13:46 »
Very nice but I thought a trug was a gardeners basket  :wacko:

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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2012, 14:11 »
I thought so too, I'd call those planters or troughs and they are very nice. :D
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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2012, 21:05 »
Trug is what the OH calls them. He's a non-gardener and as he builds me so many great things I daren't tell him it's not the right name.

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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2012, 21:15 »
Oh...  Bless him  :lol:

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Yana

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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2012, 21:19 »
Hi Bob.  
The drainage works as follows:
The entire inside is lined with damp proof membrane that sits on corrugated PVC roofing that slopes from each end downwards to the middle, so there is a natural drainage slope. There is a very narrow gap between each sloping piece of corrugated PVC roofing and DPM that is coered in sacking that sits on a piece of wire mesh. The water drains through the soil and downwards to the gap along the channels of the PVC roofing and out through the sacking and because of the mesh, the soil does not get washed out.
A late addition is a piece of guttering under the gap that slopes backwards and this means that the excess water drains out in a more controlled way.
All in all, I think they are a great piece of engineering. My OH is a whiz at this sort of stuff.  ::)

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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2012, 12:34 »
Trug is what the OH calls them. He's a non-gardener and as he builds me so many great things I daren't tell him it's not the right name.


I seem to remember a great thread about trug dependency, was it on here? doesn't come up on Search...

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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2012, 20:11 »
Your OH isn't entirely wrong Yana. The tall raised beds are  called trugs for some reason. Perhaps he is thinking of these?
http://www.vegtrug.com/

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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2012, 20:20 »
I think your OH is still a bit right Yana, as my dictionary says that a trug could be a variation on the word 'trough', so there we have it...

...all basket cases...;0)

http://www.sussextrugs.com/ukshopnew1.html

They seem to last forever though...!

I like your new one though - great bit of work there!
« Last Edit: April 30, 2012, 20:21 by Growster... »

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Yana

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Re: DIY Trugs
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2012, 21:09 »
Thanks growster and Maxyboo. I'm thrilled with them. Already cropping salad leaves, spring onions, radishes and carrots from them. Used them as seed beds for the brassicas and now over run with very healthy seedlings.
I got home from work early today and managed to sow the next batch of lettuce, leaves, onions and carrots before the rain came on.


 

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