Monday, October 12, 2015

Mapping the quonset greenhouse to the self-watering container gardening system, alternative system

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In this version, the quonset would consist of a single cattle panel that connects with another cattle panel coming from the opposite direction and meeting in the center.  This makes a long and skinny quonset.

The containers would be serviced from outside the quonset.  This gets rid of the walkway inside, which was wasting space.  There's no telling how many containers could go in.  May be able to stagger the containers and put as many as 20 of them in there.  If double-stacked, that could mean as many as 40 containers.  If 20 plants go into each container, that means as many as 800 plants can be grown in one greenhouse.  Whoa!

There should be plenty of water since the tank isn't subdivided and wasting space with the walkway.

The drawing below isn't proportional.  It should show a skinny looking floor plan.  No doors were included in the floor plan.  The gutters are on the side.  If the doors were there, it would be on the top and bottom of the drawing.

Need to figure a way to cover the water so that algae doesn't grow in the tank.  Also, could include a water plumbing feature that allows the containers to be screened off from the water supply.  May want this water for personal use!




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