Welding thread advice etc. etc.

TIG is so addictive. There is no going back once the argon addiction gets you. staring into the arc is weirdly relaxing once you get into it. Only had chance to try AC on ali one time at the end of my college course a few years ago and that is a completely different animal, but on steel the learning curve isn't as steep. Once you get the settings dialled in you can just weld and weld, even on the thin stuff. TIG welds look so sexy when done well but you can't hide ANYTHING and everything has to be spotless prep wise to get good results. I really want to start having a go at some multi pass joints and also crack on with learning to weld tube in weird and wonderful positions once I do finally get a TIG.

Has anyone done any weird and wonderful bodgery lately? I am currently building a kind of supportive frame for a multi tier semi aquaponic vertical garden for growing salad and herbs en masse in the greenhouse. The reservoirs will be gutters with an interconnecting water system which I may automate, and I have been making wicking pots out of hessian that seeds can be sown directly into. I have a testbed running on the conservatory windowsill with a load of lettuce, basil, coriander, sugar snaps, weird ancient salad crops like miners lettuce (claytonia) etc in, I just keep adding a canful of water every other day to support a few hundred little plants. Going well so far.

The ingredients for the greenhouse frame were from a steel bedframe my mate wanted rid of whilst moving house. All sorts of goodies can be scavenged and reappropriated. The vertical garden thing is going to be amazing if I can get it working well. I looked at hydrponics but there are too many drawbacks and it gets super expensive. This method is super simple and the pots are biodegradable, you just make different heights depending on how wet the individual crop likes to be.