The basic elements of my first rain gutter grow system.
Gutter planting system.
Our moving gutter system is designed to reduce labour energy and water consumption thereby both reducing your production costs and your environmental footprint.
What is rain gutter gardening.
I built my first rain gutter grow system in 2014.
3 pvc pipe 10 long 2 net cups dollar store baskets landscape fabric and two 2 x4 x10 boards.
Gutter systems have proliferated in urban settings rooftop gardens and deck patio porch gardens all over the world.
Literally the locations for gutter gardens are almost limitless.
Plants are grown inside of large or small containers and fed water and nutrients from the rain gutter which is maintained by a float valve.
The rain gutter grow system takes container gardening to a whole new level.
I ve been feeling an urgency to get this blog post update out because i have been seeing ridiculous growing traffic on our strawberry planting in rain gutters post and i think we should let you all know that growing strawberry plants in rain gutters hasn t turned out so well for us.
It was actually considered a hybrid rain gutter grow system because i used a 3 pvc pipe instead of a rain gutter.
Succulent plants generally have spreading roots and grow perfectly in shallow containers such as a portion of gutter.
And by that i mean well they are all dead big gardening fail.
The best garden gutter plants are those with spreading roots instead of those that continue to grow downward.
Grow bag garden systems has what you need to get started today.
Using our mgs will enable a production increase of 25 30 per square meter as opposed to conventional greenhouse table systems thereby heavily reducing the energy consumption per plant.
Pvc hanging gutter garden gutter gardens can also be used as a privacy screen plus they provide planting space.
It is a low maintenance mass growing system that can grow many large and small crops at once.
The largest selection of root pouch grow bags pond liners net cups kerick float valves and.
You ll need pvc white gutters and a few other materials to complete this project given here.
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The premise of rain gutter gardening is that any length of rain gutter makes a useful garden container.