Bathtub Gardening
While filming with Tania Coppel about her story on compost toilets we spotted this ring of bathtubs all under wire netting.
They reminded me of a ring of wagon trains circling round like in a cowboy Western movie protected by a wire netting to stop the possums for eating the produce. The only “Indians” that were threatening this circle of bathtubs were the rain-forest timber trees whose invading deep roots were robbing the vegetable garden of nutrients.
Bathtub Gardening
As this short video clip explains, moving the garden into bathtubs was a smart move especially if you also run a worm farm to generate the compost for the system. Just like following the steps in our bathtub worm farm post – this is the result you get if you let nature do a little of the work for you.
And if you suddenly get the urge to get really creative with bathtubs – how about running trout in a bathtub aquaponics system?
And you thought taking a bath was all a bathtub was good for?
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What a great idea and I also like the idea with the netting. Where would you find so many bath tubs?
People are always renovating their bathrooms. There are always bathtubs for sale at demolition sites, rubbish dumps and revolve or recycle centres.
I put in a bathtub garden of my own last spring, it performed really well. I was looking for others on the net and came across Anyas’ clip on You Tube. I met Anya in Melbourne years ago now when I was sharing a house in Box Hill with Mikah and Mark and Jaya, Linda and Isla etc and used to visit Anyas’ ‘Cafe Yartz’ with my partner Johanna. I would love to contact Anya again, it would be nice to catch up. Could you please pass this post and my email address onto her and hopefully she will contact me.
Thanks, love and light.