DIY Smart Pot

[MR1]

I would stay away from galvanized, nasty stuff, use aluminum instead. Stainless would be best.

 

[Lesso]

Yeah...the zinc oxides in the presence of water.

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

I wouldn't worry about galvanized--there are still millions and millions of homes in the US with galvanized water lines. Other than the fact that galvanized pipe are hard as !@#$% to work on, there is nothing wrong with galvanized and water.

 

[deadkndys]

I ordered fabric the yesterday. I will be making some pots to match the space I have to grow in now. And I found a cord for my camera and I normally have plenty of time unless something weird comes up, so not excuses for me.

So did you ever end up making those?

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

LOL, no. I still have the fabric sitting there. I have moved back to the mountains even though we still have a lot of snow. I just got too homesick. And then when I got here there just seemed so much to do. I will get to it one of these first days....trying to get a quilt done for a friend of mine whose b-day is the middle of March right now.

 

[jeritadamson]

geotextile? landscape fabric? the amazon link didn't work. mum's the word on the "patented" material used to make smart pots, apparently. i've heard of ecofelt. anyway, i want to make 48 200-gallon smart pots. need an affordable, bulk material. The manufactured 200-gallon pots are all too tall. i want to make one seven feet in diameter and a foot and a half high (7' x 18"). please, anyone, if you have undertaken large DIY smart pots (not 5-gals!) and succeeded, chime in! i need to find the cheapest bulk fabric that still breathes. anyone. weirdly hard to pin this down. $5/yard, by the way, is not cheap, not when making large pots like these. peace.

just found this:

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=201016