Specialty Gardening: gutter garden, 0 by brandoblues

brandoblues wrote:
yes I have the same float valves as you have, and also found cheap float valves at an ace hardware that are used in swamp boxes. I chain all the troughs together with piping and keep a 5 gallon bucket in the greenhouse next to it with a single float valve. the water level in the bucket and the troughs are all the same so i had to take care at making sure everything was perfectly level. I would get more pics but its on its 5th inch of rain in the garden today, a wonderful break in the drought.

what do you use as growing media? I use a product from lowes called landscapers mix by hapi gro. its basically bark and perlite, and i think it does well in a wicking situation. i cover the surface with cypress mulch to insulate the mix. the water wicks higher this way ive seen. no more peat in my mixes.

oh here is a trough i built for a friend of mine, 60 ft of fun growing he had this year.