Specialty Gardening: Vertical Gardens, 1 by Jaywhacker

Jaywhacker wrote:
For a cheaper vertical growing system, you can buy just the hard plastic pots from http://www.theezgro.com for $6.00 each and then provide your own 3/4 inch diameter electrical conduit and fittings and use your own grow mix. The fitting shown in this photo is an EMT coupler. The two screws on the side will tighten down and secure the two pieces of conduit in the coupling. The bottom pot can just sit down on the top of the coupling and the other pots stack on top of that. The pots spin on the poles so you can walk by and turn them now and then to ensure all sides of the pots are exposed to an equal amount of sunshine. If I were setting up a pole system like this I would prefer to drop a large washer on top of the coupling to better support the pots and prevent wear on the bottom pot. Tighten only the top screw of the coupling and then you can just lift all the pots off the bottom piece of conduit and move them around if you desire. A system using only three pots per pole would be easy for one person to move around in case you have shade trees casting different shadows thru the growing season. Let your imagine run wild as to how and where you will mount the bottom piece of conduit. EMT straps are available to screw the conduit to most surfaces.........a porch railing for instance. Another post showing the pot sitting on top of the coupling follows.