Balcony Gardening

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Show off that vertical veggie garden 35 stories high. Or that bucket of potatoes you're proud of. Perhaps some fall mums that have been catching your eye through the sliding door into your living room. Any and all balcony gardens are welcome! Come and show your's off because we love to see it. :)

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Best way to connect and seal two plastic water containers? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 7 months ago by solbear@slrpnk.net to c/balconygardening@slrpnk.net

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I'm launching a little balcony gardening project that involves water reservoirs. I don't have much experience with these kinds of projects, so I need a little help.

Due to some dimensional constraints, I will need two regular plastic containers (your typical storage containers), and I was hoping to get away with only including a way to fill one of them. That means I will need to connect it to the other in some way. So I thought I would just drill a hole in both of them and stick a pipe between them.

What is the best way to drill holes in plastic without risking any splitting?
How do I make sure that the holes are water sealed afterwards? Can I glue around the pipe and plastic box?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Any hot metal thing will do. You can combine the melt with the drill method by poking a series of smaller holes with a hot nail. Better do it in a ventilated space though... a balcony will do ;)

And yeah, some glues just don't stick well to certain types of plastic. You can try roughen the surface up a bit with sand-paper but it will not always work and having a leak because you accidentally slightly moved a container is annoying. IMHO the rubber-gasket way is the most durable way of doing it.