As you may have seen from the garden plan, we have very limited space and sun to grow sun-loving plants such as strawberries. I love strawberries. I have some strawberry plants arriving in the next few weeks, and I need a place to plant them so they will thrive.
Design
Here's another of my bad sketches. We found lots of remaindered guttering in the garden and in the house when we arrived. With the addition of a few pieces of lumber and some paint, the idea is to create something free-standing or that leans slightly against the north wall of the garden to take advantage of the later afternoon sun.
Not to scale at all, v1.
Having found a solid, tall palette among our supplies, this second conception includes the already existing supplies, rather than using all new lumber for the framing.
Still not to scale, and even more poorly drawn, v2.
V3 was not that different from V2. I added interstitial boards to create the inclines I wanted the gutters to be on, to allow for good drainage, and planned fewer support pieces because I was using some pretty beefy wood scraps. I also modified my initial layout of the two shorter pieces so that they now made a continuous fourth row.
Implementation
Just a grungy pallet we found in the house. 1.2m x 2m.
Sanding and glue repairs.
The painting begins. On the bottom edge, it gets the rubberizing paint I had left over from the bathroom.
The top gets the same olive green as the garden gate. It turns out to be a nice two-tone green effect.
Checking all the pieces. This was when I realized I needed the interstitial angle boards.
When we moved the old staircase from the main house to the atelier, we had to trim it down by about 10cm, so I had all these hefty 10cm wide bits of wood laying around. They support the guttering quite nicely and attach to the interstitial angle boards very nicely.
Gluing and screwing in the supports onto the interstitial angle boards.
Testing the middle gutter support, the normal gutter older kind of clip. I found several unused at the house.
