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Horizontal Tube bed

Well my wife convinced me to add an additional bed so she can be part of the fun. First of all she is going to plant sweet grass (she is native american and they use it for ceremonies and basket making). I have an 8 foot 4x4 pvc fence post tube we are going to cut open and make it a window box unit. Seeing as it is only 4" deep, which for this plant is more than enough what would you all suggest for a drain system?

Thanks

John

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Permalink Reply by loki on October 25, 2012 at 12:39pm

i just realized that it look like you are using a 2in to11/2in to 3/4in as a stand pipe so esentially like this[/\] flip that around to look like this[\/] the largest part should be closest to the top of the bell! try that out first and ignore the other stuff i said! if you have your down pipe that looks like this [\/] water will get vacumed in to the stand pipe hole this way [/\] water has to try to force its way to get to the top of the stand pipe to exit the system so flip your stand pipe around and you should be golden!

Permalink Reply by John Cubit on October 25, 2012 at 1:05pm

Loki,

Thanks, currently that drain is 3/4" with a 1/2" reducer at the top draining into 3/4 in drain. The bed is only 4"x4"x6'. Drilling a 3" hole leaves no room for a bell. The current bell is 2" diameter x 4" height. I am def. considering the a constant flow.

Permalink Reply by John Cubit on October 25, 2012 at 1:10pm

LOL...crossed messages. I will try that tonight.

loki said:

i just realized that it look like you are using a 2in to11/2in to 3/4in as a stand pipe so esentially like this[/\] flip that around to look like this[\/] the largest part should be closest to the top of the bell! try that out first and ignore the other stuff i said! if you have your down pipe that looks like this [\/] water will get vacumed in to the stand pipe hole this way [/\] water has to try to force its way to get to the top of the stand pipe to exit the system so flip your stand pipe around and you should be golden!

Permalink Reply by loki on October 25, 2012 at 1:16pm

i tried to edit in the window but i caught it to late and took to long to type it!

John Cubit said:

LOL...crossed messages. I will try that tonight.

loki said:

i just realized that it look like you are using a 2in to11/2in to 3/4in as a stand pipe so esentially like this[/\] flip that around to look like this[\/] the largest part should be closest to the top of the bell! try that out first and ignore the other stuff i said! if you have your down pipe that looks like this [\/] water will get vacumed in to the stand pipe hole this way [/\] water has to try to force its way to get to the top of the stand pipe to exit the system so flip your stand pipe around and you should be golden!