Larry hall from brainerd minnesota developed the rain gutter grow system out of a desire to grow tobacco and vegetables.
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You can use plastic buckets barrels or grow bags for containers.
Snipping first year blooms is easier snipping runners is easier and the renovation tasks that are still applicable for gutter systems are usually easier as well.
The water drains through a hole in this gutter down into the gutter below it.
He developed the system based on self watering containers and hydroponic systems.
The system works by pumping water from a fish tank set on the ground up into the topmost gutter.
Rain gutter grow systems are a new way to grow plants that reduce watering and reduce weeding.
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His youtube channel and facebook group pages are very informative as well.
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I switch to a fertilizer with a higher nitrogen content alone with other nutrients that tomato plants need like phosphorous to.
Larry has a website with materials and information about rain gutter grow systems here.
Clean the gutter with pvc cleaner where you intend to glue apply the glue and use a clamp to hold them together.
Take the rain gutter and mount it between two treated water resistant 2x4s.
This system is relatively inexpensive and easy to build.
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This is a self watering bucket on steroids so naturally i had to try it.
Gutter strawberries are very flexible systems.
And by that i mean well they are all dead big gardening fail.
Use a vinyl rain gutter instead of a snap version to allow you to glue the sides onto the wood framing.
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Just like picking is easier with most gutter systems growing strawberries in gutters allows for ease during certain maintenance tasks.
At the core the rain gutter grow system is a self watering container gardening method.
The containers soak up water from the rain gutter using a net cup on the bottom of each container.
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