Herb Garden Barrel

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My apartment doesn't have a big enough deck to utilize my full size garden barrel, so I designed a miniature version for herbs. The base of the barrel collects excess water that can be reused to water the garden. The little side pockets are a great way to separate your different herbs. The pot design is also stack-able if you wanted to do that. If gardening is really your thing then you may also like the full sized 30 gallon barrel version seen here: http://www.instructables.com/id/Barrel-Gardens-Big-Value-in-a-Small-Package/ As it happens, while working on this design I was also reading a book about another man's gardening troubles and tribulations that lead him to the very same conclusion as me. I 100% recommend this book as a fun nonfiction read: ​The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden​ http://amzn.to/28Uv6od Instructions 2 Perimeters, 30% infill minimum. No supports needed. You may want to play with surface finishing after printing to make sure the base is waterproof. The full size model has a 5" diameter around the barrel and is 5" tall. The smallest usable version of this would probably be 85% scale or so. I recommend printing it as large as you are able. The main photo is a miniature version i printed to check the fit and take some good pictures. The 100% sized version is shown with an incomplete top because my printer gave up in the home stretch of the 14 hour job. I'll update pics when I get the full sized print out right.