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  • Squash station horse box for 2020 build

    Idea was to come up with a less plastic "Squash station" for the upcoming growing season. Fully up-cycled version, not so tall as the Rotol deleks.



    its 30" x 30" inch square at base, 22" x 28" opening at the top

    Will staple discarded manure bags, black side outwards onto the outside of the box

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    Filll with horse bedding manure in Feb, give a couple of months to break down before planting trailers & climbers in m.May

    Q: Reminds me of some architecture but cant think where ?

  • #2
    Looks good.
    Could be used as a hotbed in the colder months, then a squash bed. Nice.
    Are you still making the woodchip socks?
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    • #3
      I plant in the ground because I don’t like using any plastics,slugs love wet plastic,you could’ve made a nice little raised bed?
      Location : Essex

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      • #4
        I "made" something similar out of the wooden crates that paving slabs and slates are delivered in. I couldn't have got a horse in them though unless it was My Little Pony.

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        • #5
          Every time i put her in (MLP) she keeps escaping through the gaps.

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          • #6
            You need to keep the stable door closed.

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            • #7
              Good luck! There's always a hundred reasons not to do something, so all the best with doing it, and tell us how it did/didn't work.

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              • #8
                So here is the same box with old manure bag stapled to it.

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                Notice it channels the rain into the corners as intended...

                * in the mk1.2 version have the gullies slightly lower down the box.

                Two horizontal slats at the top and perhaps a bit of batten shaping the box at the bottom with the slanting slats more towards the bottom of the box.

                ** AVOID stapling in the water gullies
                Last edited by no_akira; 30-12-2019, 04:45 PM.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Jungle Jane View Post
                  you could’ve made a nice little raised bed?
                  Its a bespoke container to hold a loosely filled wheel barrows worth of straw filled horse manure. As im unable to find a commercially available box of these dimensions, i have to make it.

                  Also its a temporary structure only in use from m.May till l.September. Overwinter its stored under cover.

                  I need it to be light-ish (hence the big gaps) but rigid to contain the settling manure.

                  After ive grown my squashes x2 and o/d cuccumbers x2 (trailers & climbers super combo). at the end of the season I pull it off and process the settled nicely rotted manure with a riddle. Then use it on my seed beds as a light friable cap layer the following season.
                  Last edited by no_akira; 03-01-2020, 10:01 AM.

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                  • #10
                    I like this, will ask Mr M to build me one. He made a 4ft x 20" one in the greenhouse to help with passive heating ( but I have horrible feeling the manure may not be fresh enough)
                    Anything is possible with the right attitude, a hammer
                    and a roll of duct tape.

                    Weeds have mastered the art of survival, if they are not in your way, let them feed bees

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