Water Trough Garden Beds
Choose a level sunny spot fill with dirt or pots plants and seeds.
Water trough garden beds. This galvanized trough is the perfect size for a small planter. You can place galvanized troughs within larger garden beds to separate and prevent crawling plants from taking over your garden. They re a smart replacement for the typical wooden raised beds because they re sturdy and last a long time. 12 trough planter in a parking lot jean mcweeny of state by state gardening wrote about urban folks and apartment dwellers using troughs as planters.
These unique raised bed planters look like galvanized watering troughs but they are durable embossed metal that easily bolts together. Water troughs or stock tanks as they re also called make fabulous gardening beds. Less weeding low maintenance and simple to set up. The metal water troughs i purchased have drainage holes at the bottom.
Drip water slowly into the basin refilling as it seeps through until water is left standing on the surface. At a height of 24 inches each trough provides a luxurious depth of soil to promote root growth of vegetables and herbs. Two troughs with a small footprint each is 2 feet wide and 6 feet long sit side by side in the yard behind a san francisco row house in a garden created by designer katey mulligan. I don t have city water on my rural farm so we rely on a rain catchment system instead.
Metal water troughs are just large containers in your garden and they should be treated the same as other container gardens.