I like the setup. For future rounds, just to add to your ideas – your rain barrel getting direct sun will warm up and can cause you some root issues.. if you’re handy at all, and have the means, I would suggest you build some sort of cladding around it (ie: like a wooden box, horizontally cladded) and you’ll also have a better trellis system. Cladding my own 55 gallon and giving an air gap with the barrel dropped the water temperature by about 5 degrees celcius .. my plants loved the change. Alternatively, you can also dig down and put it in the ground, depending on you geography (did that with one of mine too, way cooler temperature wise)
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That’s quite the set up
I like the setup. For future rounds, just to add to your ideas – your rain barrel getting direct sun will warm up and can cause you some root issues.. if you’re handy at all, and have the means, I would suggest you build some sort of cladding around it (ie: like a wooden box, horizontally cladded) and you’ll also have a better trellis system. Cladding my own 55 gallon and giving an air gap with the barrel dropped the water temperature by about 5 degrees celcius .. my plants loved the change. Alternatively, you can also dig down and put it in the ground, depending on you geography (did that with one of mine too, way cooler temperature wise)