Outdoor grow in smart pots on leach field
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Depends on soil permeability. If the soil is very permeable to water, then runoff from your pots & water from the leach field will both leach into the soil & travel downward into the water table. If it's not, then the extra water can cause the leach field to become super saturated & back up the septic system.
It depends on the soil, the size of the leach field related to how much demand is placed upon it & how much runoff there is from the plants. It's probably best to not take any chances, or a least not plant heavily across the area. A few plants would probably be OK.
It depends on the soil, the size of the leach field related to how much demand is placed upon it & how much runoff there is from the plants. It's probably best to not take any chances, or a least not plant heavily across the area. A few plants would probably be OK.
I think that you should leave a hole in the bottom of your pots so the main root can go deep into all that human feces and leeches and get all that human fertelizer. LOL
Yea I'm doing 12 total there, it's on a hillside south facing and it's semi level like someone dozered it, it is literally the only place on the property that will get full sun, it's hot here in the summer so the water should evaporate fairly quick. I'm just stuck in a hard place here because the area is so prime. It rains like a rain forest here in the winter so my plants should back the system up. Also the soil is rock hard
Throw your smarties in a kiddy pool, or something will retain the water. Maybe have a drain hose attached to the side wall of the pool so no standing water for the bugs, and drain it further off the hillside. Good luck.
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This type of fitting on the low side of the kiddie pool with a poly line running away from the septic should work.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Watts-3-4-in-x-3-4-in-PVC-MPT-x-FPT-bulkhead-Union-PL-1872/202639687
with this on the outside
http://www.homedepot.com/p/SharkBit...H=REC-_-product-1-_-202639687-_-202721874-_-N
Run away from the septic with this
http://www.homedepot.com/p/DIG-Corp-1-2-in-x-500-ft-Poly-Drip-Tubing-B37/100163329
Good luck.
Edit:
This type of fitting on the low side of the kiddie pool with a poly line running away from the septic should work.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Watts-3-4-in-x-3-4-in-PVC-MPT-x-FPT-bulkhead-Union-PL-1872/202639687
with this on the outside
http://www.homedepot.com/p/SharkBit...H=REC-_-product-1-_-202639687-_-202721874-_-N
Run away from the septic with this
http://www.homedepot.com/p/DIG-Corp-1-2-in-x-500-ft-Poly-Drip-Tubing-B37/100163329
Good luck.
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If the septic system doesn't back up from torrential winter rains, then you're probably OK, particularly if you can help excess water get away down the hill rather than soaking into the ground.
I think we all tend to base our comments on what we experience in our own parts of the world. Your circumstances are clearly different than my own here in CO.
I'd love to grow outdoors, but our small yard in a very urban neighborhood pretty much rules that out, unfortunately. There's a streetlight not 50 ft away (from the bulb to the dirt) from the garden & we have alley people, too. Trash gets picked through on a near daily basis. Chances of a successful harvest are realistically near zero.
Wow Fisher your plants look amazing!! That's in the ground in the leach field?
Good advice bulldog but I'm completely out of money for this project but I def can see the working. I'm just going to go for it and cross fingers nothing gets damaged
Trust me I know about loving in this city I apartment grew indoor for 5 years I been waiting along time to go big outdoor
Thank you man..those did well. Mounds and smart pots above leach field no problem. The mounds did better. Hard clay and rock..typical norcal ground. Do it up!
Fuck yea! Plants grow great in norcal. If you get bored check out my residential mountain grow I'm blowing up the neighborhood haha. This is the one I'm documenting the leech field grow I'm not.
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