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  • Raised Bed soil is still going to be wrong for these types of containers, and is blended to hold more moisture than you’d want for a containers. It’s meant to be used over a larger area, where a container soil is meant for fast draining, so that might be the issue.

    You can also 3:1 blend some sandy cactus/citrus soil with a raised bed type to get the desired drainage needed to prevent it holding too much moisture.

    If you’re in a hot and arid climate, you might also want to split up waterings to be more frequent with less overall water at each watering to ensure the roots don’t take heat damage in containers. Tedious, yes, but it works.

















  • I’m just giving you the simple facts. Your requirements are like asking how to farm salmon in a bathtub: not going to happen.

    I just gave you the most realistic use for what you provided, the simplest part of that knowing that GROUND soil cannot be used for RAISED beds of any kind for a number of different reasons. The most obvious being is that it will compact down to whatever it was once watered a few times, and looking at your picture it’s simply compacted clay dirt mix. Dirt is not soil, and it won’t grow anything successfully in a container setting.

    To successfully grow anything perennial, you need aged, worked, and nutrient rich soil or compost to even get to any sort of successful stage to eat. You can’t just lump dirt into something and expect a living plant that needs nutrients to work from that.


  • I’m not sure why you’d NOT want a battery powered one, because as you say, the batteries last years, and a USB powered one would waste much more electricity over time, but I digress.

    If you have any mini SoC boards or ESP32 devices laying around, you can get dirt cheap 2-pin external temp sensors. Works on anything with a GPIO pin out that supports simple I/O.

    Anything you find that is Zigbee by nature will be battery powered, however, you might be able to find a device with a different purpose that happens to have temp sensors that export data you could monitor.


  • Wouldn’t want to just lay them in the ground and fill them, you’d want to dig a hole and submerge probably half of them, then fill the bottoms with a mix of the ground soil you dug out, and soil amendment meant for raised beds. This will help to deter subterranean pests from getting in.

    You may also want to (carefully and with the right bits) drill 1/2" holes spaced around the outside to let more water drain and let microbes and worms in and out. This helps to normalize the inside with the outside soils. Then fill to about 1" from the top.

    As for what to plant, I would imagine leafy greens that like cooler conditions would like this sort of setup (the soil inside will stay cool versus a wooden raised bed structure). Spinach, Kale, Cabbages, Mustard Greens, Brussel Sprouts…etc.



  • You seem to have zero knowledge on the subject, so let me educate you a lil bit:

    Data isn’t treated like physical evidence.

    Drugs and weapons are physical evidence.

    US laws do not cover any protections of ephemeral (non-physical) evidence pertaining to crimes committed ex post facto: meaning law enforcement is not privy to any and all collection of said data if not in scope for a crime committed, unlike…PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.

    You can see drugs. You can hold drugs. Law enforcement can make a reasonable assumption that someone shooting a gun in public is breaking the law and seize that gun, because they are actually breaking the law (juris laws dependent) by firing the gun.

    If suddenly our laws allowed the assumption that whatever exists on a phone for a random person in public contains something related to a crime, police would be able to stop anyone and everyone on the street everywhere and take their phone or data for simply thinking every person is suspicious. This is why the 4th amendment exists, and why police are enot allowed to do such things. His is why warrants are a thing.

    Read up.