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Heyyy! I wonder if you could just stand at the top and sloooowly water till it trickles all the way down. Very conducive to automatic drip watering, but I wonder if it would get too wet at the top or too dry at the bottom to do that.

I would like to see hanging plants that drape over and camouflage the black tubing (the tubing reminds me of a dryer vent).

Awesome.

swoon!

How neat! Thanks Regina!

i love this---but my plants on my balcony (in Montréal) never survive the winter...so i am a bit cautious. Besides...i love the swirly stairs in the plateau.

Love this!
Imagine filling it with vine tomatoes and strawberries.. yum.

Thanks for posting this Regina. The Rooftop Gardens Project is a leader in the use of modern methods of watering plants in containers. It is a world-class project. I’ve been working with sub-irrigated container plants for over 30 years but would learn much from these young people. They are my heroes.

What you see here is from their earlier work in 2005. I believe the experiment was to use gravity feed in the planter tube from top to bottom. They don’t explain much about it on their website.

Their most prominent current work is in the use of sub-irrigated (aka “self-watering) grower boxes for growing vegetables. Their DIY version is much like the commercial EarthBox. You can produce more vegetables, using less water in any sunlit urban space whether paved surface, balcony or rooftop. You do not need turned earth.

Have a look at this video. about them.