The New Gutter Garden

Jeff's been busy these last few nice days building the new gutter garden...using PVC pipe!  Here's he's gluing in the end caps with the float valves attached.  This is what a 'float value' looks like. (below)  He's been

looking for these valves for a couple of years and finally found them online
for a reasonable price (I think he ordered more than he's going to use right away!)  And here are the pipes attached to 2x4's so they will sit flat...or nearly flat...on the ground.  Next Jeff has to

to cut holes...with a hole saw...where he wants each bag or pail to sit on the pipe.   Then the 4 pipes will be attached via tubing to a rain barrel and the system will be self- contained and self- watering.  No more open water for mosquitoes to breed in or Fanny to drink from! He's planning on having 2 of these systems...one in the greenhouse...when it gets moved and re-skinned and one alongside the garden. He's going to reuse the pails and plant bags from last year when he can and he's got dozens of pails from the dog shampoo shop that was on the corner of Dewey Ave and Mohawk St last fall if he needs more.  Every time we go to Walmart Jeff looks at the extra large Rubbermaid storage boxes...the $20 ones...that he thinks would be perfect for growing potatoes in, but I just can't believe he'd spend that much for a plastic box and then drill holes in the bottom of it for netting cups! I'll keep you posted on that front if he decides to do that!