Anyone using or seen the rain gutter system for container gardening? I just saw this for the first time and I am consitering doing one next year. It seems very slick to me!
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That looks nice mrsg. This style I’m talking about you never have to water it’s system keeps it watered as the plants call for water. The gutter is a water troff that feeds grow cantainers. It has a float shut off that feeds water as the containers calll for more like a hot sunny day. The nice thing is once these are set up you dont have to do anything but harvest!
Here is another set up. This guy is in the service and leaves for periods of time and his garden keeps on going. I like the little biplane in the video too.
It has been the standard commercial method for growing sensitive botanicals in translucent greenhouses and “hoop houses” here for at least 60 years. 
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Okay but how about growing vegetables, and such for northern growers. What I like is the no watering. Plus it can be put in places where weeds and animals have little factors. I’m thinking of one run up in the air off the ground with round sheet metal underneath so animals cant climb up.
I fill really stupid. 'I’v been watching my pots twice a day.
I had a customer (until I retired) with an operation in Toronto growing full size cabbages and kale in this system with inert media. In fact most of the “trough” growers I’m aware of were using inert media. Certainly the trough growers here were using pea gravel in the 1950’s-60’s until the Aztec Perlite company opened up in Escondido.