Use for old guttering

[uks]

Nextdoor's are having there guttering replaced. I've had an idea for recycling them. I have a bare 6x8 foot blank brick wall that i'm going to turn into a vertical garden with the gutter and brackets.
I think i can get maybe 7 columns on that wall. Which would be the same as another 42 foot row of growing space.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/design/pl...rden.shtml

[Skean Dhude]

Good idea. I've just written tomorrows article about vertical gardening funnily enough.

[Scythe13]

(9 February 2012, 11:44)Skean Dhude Wrote: Good idea. I've just written tomorrows article about vertical gardening funnily enough.

SD, I hope you've given a mention to windowfarms. They are awesome!!!

UKS, I tried to comment earlier, but my internet crashed and the message didn't send. I tried to say about using a vertical low point window farm style hydroponic system to filter the liquid through the roots and allow for an indoor garden, if you were so disposed to do so. On an outdoor garden, you're better using the guttering as a way to hold pots and then allow the water to fall into a pipe that feeds the pots in the guttering below that. If you use a gentle slant, the water can flow off of one section of pipe, into the top section of another, then gently down that piece of pipe inthe the next one below with an opposite slope. If that makes sense?

Think of it as holding a similar shape to this > The liquid would run down the top line, then into a catchment system at the point of the > and then down that system to another point, that would look like < and so on and so forth down the wall. Obviously you'd want a smaller angle than that. But it is a very good system.

I've found you some pretty pictures and diagrams

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3583/3506...b54a8d.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_SEZJ7vwKd6I/S7...ab9f57.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkCuPrsPn_I

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Found it! Finally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i61tJFqO...re=related

[Prep Girl]

Good video thanks.