Green wall and drip irrigation

[1Bee]

Because I'm over - committed and sleep deprived (!) I've come up with the idea of putting a hanging green wall (one of the fabric pocket ones?) in our backyard and using a simple bagged drip irrigation system to keep it watered.

Anyone have any experiences to share?

[Penellype]

The fabric pocket systems were one of the things I considered when I got my front fence. In general I found the pockets seemed rather small, so you would need shallow rooted plants and plenty of water. I rejected the bag irrigation system because the bag has to be higher than the highest soil surface and I couldn't see how I could easily fill it. It would also leave the top part of the fence bare as there is nowhere higher to hang it.

Watering things that are high up is always a problem, hence the idea of hanging basket hangers with pulleys. Fixed things like the pots I have or the pockets really need a hosepipe with a basket waterer extension - my outside tap seems designed not to fit any available hosepipe connector without sending half the water up the house wall.

I was worried that filling the troughs with compost would make them too heavy for the fence (the bigger ones take about 10 litres). My solution to the problem was to use trough planters with a layer of compost at the bottom and put the plants in small pots on top of the compost, so they can root into it through the holes in the pot. This also means that I can replace plants when something has finished without having to wait for the whole trough to die off. This would be useful if you were wanting to harvest one thing at a time. For bigger plants I use pot hangers and double up the plant pots with a gel water slice in between - strawberries seem to like this arrangement. I still have to water daily though, and the highest plants are above my head, which is tricky with a watering can.

I use 9 or 10 cm pots, 3 to a small trough, 5 to a bigger one:



(Photo taken 1st August 2017). Most of mine are flowers but there is no reason why you couldn't grow salads and other smallish veg this way. I'm going to try basket tomatoes this year in the bigger pots.

I hope this information is useful even though I haven't any actual experience of the exact system you are wanting to try.

[HoneyChild]

This is a good thread. I've been thinking about something similar.

I've recently been installing my willow screens in my garden. The problem I've been having is that the willow screens I've bought aren't the right size for one section of fence. I therefore have a ~2' gap in the corner which I thought could be hidden by plants. I just don't want to have to deal with watering and I don't have a tap nearby. I saw one on Amazon that's supposed to be self-watering as it has a reservoir at the base. Customers have added some photos and they seem to look good.
https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Wonderwal...dp/B06XY6LM12/