Hey everyone we're here starting our IBC tote Wicking Bed Garden. We have our first one completed in Planta. This was our test one and then we have our first onion crop. What we did is we took IBC totes and cut them in half. We spaced them about 32 or so inches apart inside of a about 18 by 19 foot garden with landscape timbers and mulch surrounding us are the remaining material needed to complete. What we've done inside is we have four inch perforated drainage pipe. We're after on the bottom this is going to help disperse the water inside of the water reservoir. Then we have just a PVC pipe inserted which is going to be our fill pipe. This will be off to the side. That's what we're going to use to fill our reservoir. After the pipe comes white rock this will help be a porous space for the water to go. We cover that with just regular standard weed block. Cut a hole to go around this. In all of these we've also done a drainage hole. You can see here that's at the top of where our water reservoir will be. I think it will. So it will never hold excess water past a certain point. What we're doing now is filling them with sand. So we have 16 foot of drainage pipe three blocks or three bags of rock. Three bags of rock and then we'll put five bags of sand in there. Five bags of sand and we fill up the middle part where we didn't put rock with sand and then we'll make a smooth sand surface all the way around the outside and we'll level that and that will be our water reservoir. And then here you can see kind of the lines with our rock and then this is our sand line and then from here up we have dirt and we're thinking oh there's also mulch in there. There's a sand and then the first layer is mulch and then we have our grow dirt. We're thinking it's approximately eight two cubic meter bags of dirt. We had some loose dirt so this one got filled with some dirt from other projects around the yard. So there's two complete beds just under 20 minutes. Pretty exciting. We did a Peat Moss additive to this one. Sorry not Peat. Peat Moss. We forgot to do it this one. I can't always admit that later. Jason is going to keep working on some of the beds. We've got to make another trip to pick up some drainage pipe we have on order. One thing we've thought about is we probably need a cap of some kind so I'm gonna work on that to make sure that there's no excess debris falling into our fill pipes. There's a container. We've got a little leak in the valve so we're gonna have to fix that before we're completed. One thing that we want to know is we live in town so we don't like to use city water to water our gardens. So what we've done is we've upgraded our rain barrel system so now we have a what is it 330? 330 gallon. 330 gallon IBC tote. We've wrapped it in shade cloth. Help her bat out to grow. Down here we've got some fittings where we can hook up a hose and that's what we're gonna use to fill our IBC totes. We thought since we lifted it up there some extra pallets from what the other IBC containers came on that had given enough gravity with all that pressure all that weight and just a little bit of height we thought there'd be enough gravity to feed those IBC totes enough water. There's not. It comes out as a very slow trickle. So he has bought a motor. What is it? A pump, a transfer pump that is gonna work off of an external battery like his office right OB and it'll help us speed up the process of filling those containers. So we're gonna just keep building these out and we'll keep you guys posted.