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Vertical Garden | Easy to Build with Woolly Pockets Green Wall System  

 

1. What are Woolly Pockets made from?

2. The benefits of breathability and your vertical garden

3. What kind of plants should I grow in my vertical garden Pocket?

4. What is the best soil to use in my vertical garden Pocket?

5. What is the best kind of water to use in my vertical garden?

6. How much water should I use in my vertical garden?

7. Is there are particular technique to watering a vertical garden?

8. Installing a vertical garden - I am a DIY vertical garden person

9. Vertical Gardens! Help! I am not a DIY vertical garden person

Installation & Maintenance of Woolly Pockets

Vertical Gardens | Green Walls | Living Walls |Hanging Planters and Baskets |Wall Planters

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1. What are Woolly Pockets made from?
Woolly Pockets have two main components: the breathable felt and the built-in moisture barrier. The breathable portion of the vertical garden pocket is made of 100% recycled plastic bottles that have been industrially felted. The vertical garden moisture barrier is made according to military standards for impermeability from 60% recycled plastic bottles. Each vertical garden pocket is stitched together by hand with a double lock stitch and strong, UV-resistant nylon thread. Creating a strong, durable vertical garden.

 

2. The benefits of breathability and vertical gardens

There are two primary benefits to breathable pockets in a vertical garden. Firstly, it allows the soil of the vertical garden to aerate naturally, which reduces the need to drain the vertical garden and also helps to conserve the vertical garden’s water. Second, when the roots of the vertical garden sense air they do something called air pruning. This is the natural process of stopping their own root growth when they sense they've reached the limits of their space. This keeps the vertical garden’s roots healthy and stops the vertical garden’s plants from becoming root-bound by growing in continuing circles as they do in non-breathable containers such as clay pots.

 
3. What kind of plants should I grow in my vertical garden Pockets?
Nearly any container plant should be able to grow in a Woolly Pocket vertical garden. Pick plants that are the right size for their new vertical garden pocket home. For planting examples click here.

 
4. What is the best soil to use in my vertical garden?
Choosing a suitable growing medium for your vertical garden plants is key to your vertical gardening success. The important thing to remember when choosing potting soil for vertical gardens is that that the soil should provide water retention, drainage, and nutrition to the vertical garden. Most quality brands of all-purpose potting soil provide all of these things to vertical gardens.

PLEASE NOTE: If the soil you choose for your vertical garden does not provide enough water retention or you over water your vertical garden Pockets, they will most likely drain too quickly which will cause them to sweat and even leak. This will not only wet surfaces beneath the vertical garden, it may also flush important nutrients from your vertical garden soil.

Maximum Soil Amounts in each vertical garden Pocket

 .40 cubic feet per individual vertical garden pocket (approx. 11 litres or .011 cubic metres)

 

5. What is the best kind of water to use in my vertical garden?

The manufacturer’s recommend  the use of filtered water for watering your Woolly Wally vertical garden system in order to maintain the natural PH balance of the vertical garden’s soil.  

 

If you can only use unfiltered water on your vertical gardens, you'll want to take your Woolly Pocket outside once a year to flush it. This means thoroughly soaking your vertical garden Pockets until water runs out the sides. Flushing your vertical garden Pockets won't harm your Pocket or your vertical garden plants, in fact it will help them. Make sure you let them dry in the sun before bringing it inside to prevent the damp vertical garden Woolly Pockets from damaging your floors or furniture. When you bring it back inside, don't forget to replace the vertical garden’s nutrients lost with fertiliser.

6. How much water should I use in my vertical garden?
The amount of water each plant needs within the vertical garden depends on what type of plant and what sort of climate your vertical garden is growing in. The manufacturers recommend watering 3 cups per individual pocket (or about 5% water to soil volume) and adjusting amounts based on the particular needs of your plants and vertical garden environment. If the Woolly Pockets vertical garden moisten on the outside after watering, try watering half as much the next time. If moisture persists in the vertical garden, be sure the soil you're using is a high-quality potting soil that stays loose and holds water in your vertical garden.

 

You will want to monitor the amount of water carefully to make sure each vertical garden pocket is getting enough water to be happy, but not so much that the vertical garden pockets sweat. Check the back of the vertical garden pockets for moisture once a month and adjusting the amount of water accordingly. Just to be safe, check your vertical garden Pockets after watering. If the vertical garden Pocket's are wet, you're probably over watering your vertical garden. But don't worry, just pat the vertical garden Pocket dry with a towel and use less water in your vertical garden next time. The wall is protected thanks to the impermeable moisture barrier in each Woolly Wally Pocket vertical garden.

 

7. Is there a particular technique to watering a vertical garden Woolly Pockets?

Yes, water the soil closest to the wall to prevent water from running out the front of the vertical garden. Think of the back of the vertical garden Pocket as the watering side and the front as the breathing side of the vertical garden.

 

Drip Irrigation systems and vertical garden Woolly Pockets

The manufacturers strongly recommend installing filtered drip irrigation for your Woolly Pocket vertical garden’s system. You'll want to run the irrigation line along the inside of the vertical garden pockets towards the back, right above the root ball of the vertical garden’s plants.  You'll need an adjustable drip system so you can customize the amount of water to the needs of each plant in your vertical garden. Plan to install two drip heads per vertical garden Pocket.

 

Remember: Think of the back of the vertical garden Pocket as the watering side and the front of the vertical garden Pocket as the breathing side.

8. DIY vertical garden installation

This is the written explanation of the Instructional Vertical Gardens Video

 

You'll need:

· A vertical surface to hang your vertical gardens

· Woolly Pockets and a fixing per hole. The vertical garden fixing holes are located every 55.9cm (or 22 “) centre to centre.   

· An electric drill, screwdriver, tape measure, level

· Masking tape and a pen

· Quality soil

· Garden shovel or pail

· Plants

· A vertical garden assistant and about two vertical gardening hours

 

a. Using your level and measuring tape, place one piece of tape vertically down the centre of the wall where you want to hang your vertical garden Pockets.

 

b. Using your level and measuring tape, place a piece of tape horizontally along the wall where you'll be drilling the holes to hang the vertical garden Woolly grommets. When hanging multiple rows, space them 35.6cm (or 14") centre to centre vertically so that the vertical garden Pockets overlap a little to hide the wall behind them.

 

c. Using your measuring tape, mark the blue tape where the vertical garden holes should be drilled and pre-drill each hole.

 

d. Remove the tape and install the vertical garden wall anchors into the pre-drilled holes.

 

e. Hang your vertical garden Woolly Pockets using the screws and washers supplied. When you hang multiple vertical garden Pockets, save the anchors that will hang two vertical garden Pockets for last so you can double them up.

 

f. Fill each vertical garden Pocket halfway with soil. Add your plants and top each vertical garden Pocket off with more soil, as necessary.

 

Remember to watch the Vertical Gardens Instructional Video.

 

9. Help? Vertical Gardens? I am most definitely not a DIY vertical garden person!  

While the vertical garden Woolly Pockets are an easy to install vertical garden system not everyone has the time or desire to undergo Do It Yourself vertical garden activities. Garden Beet can provide an installation service for your vertical garden system.

 

Please make contact for a vertical garden quote on 0772 688 5346 or ask@gardenbeet.com

 

Vertical Gardening is enjoyable. Simply follow the vertical gardening instructions and you will be able to enjoy vertical gardens either inside or out. Vertical gardens not only allow urban dwellers to grow gardens in limited spaces but can also absorb noise and help assist with a building’s thermal properties. Vertical gardens can look spectacular no matter how small or large. Like all plants remember to water and feed your vertical garden and it should bring you endless vertical gardening joy.      

Please note if your are considering building a large green wall with Woolly Pockets it is your responsibility to assess whether it is necessary to obtain engineering checks, planning permits and/or building permits.