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.
Rain gutter grow system soil mix.
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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 and connected to a well rain.
Also there is a tremendous amount of peat available.
This system is relatively inexpensive and easy to build.
Have you seen the youtube videos by larry hall on the rain gutter grow system and kiddie pool system using the grow pots.
Before filling you can cover the drain holes with mesh or small pieces of window screen to keep soil from falling through.
It is a low maintenance mass growing system that can grow many large and small crops at once.
The containers soak up water from the rain gutter using a net cup on the bottom of each container.
In this video i go through the steps as we built our own version of larry hall s rain gutter grow system using 1 gallon grow bags we purchased from larry t.
Use a basic potting soil in the rain gutters.
He arrives to make gardening easier.
You can use plastic buckets barrels or grow bags for containers.
Grow bag garden systems has what you need to get started today.
He also has videos on worms.
And by that i mean well they are all dead big gardening fail.
At the core the rain gutter grow system is a self watering container gardening method.
He has a diy mix self watering systems and low maintenance.