I am slowly working on creating a. Permaculture garden/ food Forest sort of thing and got these large clay drainage pipe sections for free but I’m not sure what would go well planting in them if I’m using them as stationary planters / small raised gardens, looking for perennial edibles preferably, but honestly any and all recommendations are welcome.
I will basically just be filling them with dirt and planting stuff on top. Nothing detailed like filling them with different types of dirt or mulch or stone. Literally just dirt shoveled out of the ground.
Shovel for scale.
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.
That’s not the ground I will be getting the soil from, maybe my bad for not mentioning that but I have ground with much higher quality soil nearby in my actual garden. I just haven’t moved these there yet since they’re heavy.
Do you know any edible perennials that would grow well in a raised pot thing like this?