Using Rain Gutters For Hydroponics

My friend was describing a plan he had to build a hanging garden from surplus rain gutters.

Using rain gutters for hydroponics.

Homemade hydroponic system using gutters. Hydroponic systems can do the work of a much bigger soil based garden but in a significantly smaller space such as your deck or a room in the house. This diy rain gutter garden idea is practical and low maintenance. I thought the idea was great and decided to build my own hanging ebb and flow hydroponics.

These closed loop systems use much less water than other types of gardens and the fish provide a natural fertilizer for the plants. Check out the informative diy post here. Follow this exclusive guide here to build your very own hydroponic rain gutter garden with the 40 feet of vertical growing space and 50 gallon fish pond. The water flows through each gutter in this manner until it drains from the bottom gutter back into the fish tank.

After a few months of good rainfall which filled up my ibc tank with rainwater i decided it was time to start up my aquaponics system. Vertical kitchen gutter garden. The system is conceptual and experimental and has not been t. This instructable outlines the construction of an indoor hydroponic system which is a design project by a team of four first year engineering science students from university of toronto.

Self watering rain gutter garden fish pond.