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Stacking Water Butts - mad as cabbage idea?

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited May 2018
    They sell 2000 ltr water tanks, if you want them. They're just expensive.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    You could reinforce the lower butt with banding like an old fashioned wooden barrel. To be honest though if you got a decent quality ex-food grade shipping barrel for the bottom one then there should be no problem stacking one on top as they're designed to be stored like that when full. The blue ones builders like to reuse are incredibly tough.

    It's annoying that the smaller sized IBC tanks are more expensive than the usual 1000L ones. You can stack those no problem but the larger size tanks have a big footprint for the garden. I've got one hidden under the stairs but until I get a solar pump set up to lift the water up to my first floor garden it's not the most practical place to keep my water. Keeps me fit running up and down with watering cans though. 
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995

    You could grow clematis up around them.   :)
    Utah, USA.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Hmm someone was asking about vertical planting systems in another thread. Perfect combo here I think. Green roof, vertical planting supports, built in irrigation. You need something to block out the light as the tanks go pretty green inside even in low light conditions.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Good to see there is a plan coming together.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Our link to vertical gardening methods seems to have disappeared. Can others see it?
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    @Fire Nope.. it's gone.  How odd.  I tried multiple searches.. and the link on the brick wall discussion.  
    Utah, USA.
  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Typical,  My first successful attempt at adding a link and the post I linked to looks to have been removed.  
    West Yorkshire
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @NoraGW, any idea what happened to our very interesting discussion on vertical gardening?
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