I wrote about this great mobile garden in a previous post. Thought I’d update folks, as it was still winter at that point, and there wasn’t much life in it. Now that it’s almost summer, this amazing raised-bed-on-wheels is bursting with scrumptious edibles, and I finally figured out what the hell was going on with the gravity-fed milk jug irrigation system. It’s pretty clever!
Still waiting for someone to put a bike trailer hitch on one of these….
Tags: growing stuff, major creativity points, mobile container gardening, public space
Okay, I’ll bite - how DO the gravity fed milk jug watering devices work?
Great blog!
Me too, I’ll bite. So what’s the deal with the gravity watering milk jugs? Inquiring minds want to know.
Sorry for the delayed explaination:
At first I was really skeptical about the efficacy of these funny milk-jugs, but it looks like they’re working pretty well. The maker found a hose fitting that threaded onto the milkjug (1″ female hose fitting to half inch male barb, perhaps?!). So the ‘caps’ of the milk jugs flow right into old garden hose or solid 1/2 irrigation pipe with very small perforations for a slow, low-pressure drip-feed. Nothing too fancy, but a unique innovation for a unique garden.
Years later, thanks for this post! I randomly thought of the words “mobile garden” today while figuring out how to grow edibles while traveling on foot across the country.
-b