A Harebrained Idea - Northerly Sky Peppers

Uncle Eckley

Uncle Eckley

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A new outlet for my boredom.  The boredom. 
 
Problem: the rectangular footprint of my two-story house is cardinally oriented, faces south, and backs right up to a wooded area.  My HOA will not tolerate rows of Homer buckets set out in front of the house, and it's way too shady around the back, so the plants I can't support properly indoors with my one LED light will have to settle for the east or west sides of the house.  The HOA might even insist on the east side.  
 
Harebrained Idea: I've got a wood deck spanning the width of the back (north) side of the house.  What say I design and build a means of hoisting a platform up to the eaves or so to get up over the shadow of the house?   Should be able to get full sun on the platform while the pitch of the roof hides everything when viewed from the street.  I'm thinking tubing and pulleys, anchored to the house somehow, with tracks along the frame to steady the thing in the wind.  
 
Any and all serious or silly ideas and suggestions, please!
 
Get some used pallet racking like this, if they ask you can tell your hoa its there for gutter cleaning, roof maintenance, or whatever.

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Just had another thought.  If I get some sacrificial vinyl siding, just a few pieces, I could take down some of the existing siding, and cut holes in the sacrificial stuff so I can firmly fasten the whole shebang to the back of the house.  Caulk around the penetrations in the sacrificial siding.  If I want to take the thing down I can replace the original siding and it would be like it never was.  This would keep the deck space free as I would no longer have to extend the frame so the way down to the decking.  The only thing is I'd have to have a way to reinterface (<-not a word) the carriage with the tracks once it reached the frame on the way back up..  Hmm..
 
Maybe that's going too far..  It would be a lot more difficult.
 
A friend was doing handyman/yardwork for someone in a HOA.  Found out what he wanted to do was against the rules.  So he read all the rules, went back to them and said, ok, I can do this according to the rules, they said yes. And I can do this, they said yes, I can also do this, they said yes.  He then said, well I'm going to do all of it, and it will look like crap, but it follows your rules.  Or you can let me do what I intended to do, which will look much better.....
 
They let him do what was "against" the rules, otherwise he would follow the rules and make an eyesore. 
 
Sometimes you can play their game and beat them.  YMMV.
 
Just climb up in the trees and nail your potted plant to the trunk as high up as you can get it. You might have to prune a little tree above your plant. Then run irrigation up there, maybe some kind of system to hoist yourself up there to harvest
 
I don't suppose squirrels would molest them..  A sort of treehouse arrangement would be simpler, but I can't handle heights.  It didn't bother me when I was younger, but now I go dizzy.
 
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