Holman GW0001 Mini Wall-Mounted Planting Kit User Guide

Holman GW0001 Mini Wall-Mounted Planting Kit User Guide

INTRODUCTION

GreenWalls or living walls have been known since the Hanging Gardens of Babylon before the birth of Christ. The gardens of today tend to have small footprints but lots of walls. These offer many possibilities for home gardeners to bring living greenery back into our lives. The Holman Green Wall is an engineered platform that is designed to make hanging or vertical gardens easy to set up and maintain in an Australian yard. Even if that is now an apartment balcony. Green Wall will allow you to transform a wall into a lovely growing space. The system is simple to set up and most importantly incorporates an irrigation system. This vertical garden unit enables you to grow a herb or vegetable garden near your kitchen, to beautify indoor spaces and patio areas make a colourful and welcoming entry statement
for your home.

Overview

Contents List:

• 1 x Green Wall Panel
• 6 x Clip-on Planter (Pots)
• 6 x Adjustable Drippers
• 6 x Drip Stakes
• 4 x Saddle Clips
• 2 x Ratchet Clamps
• 1 x 13mm Poly Pipe
• 1 x Click-on Connector
• 2 x Clamps
• 4 x Wall Plugs
• 4 x Screws
• 1 x 1.5M 4mm Tube
• 2 x 4mm Joiner
• 4 x 4mm Tee
• 2 x 4mm Elbow
• 1 x 4mm Punch
• 1 x 13mm End Plug
• 6 x Cable Ties

INSTALLATION

1. “Location” is as important in growing a Green Wall as it is in real estate. Growing on a vertical surface means that the amount of full sunlight is going to be restricted. North and west facing walls get the most light and heat. This can turn even a north facing wall into a growing spot that gets as little as 1 hour of direct sun.
2. You can install a single panel or multiple panels. If you plan to install 2 panels you can use just one 13mm supply line in between the panels.
3. Once you have determined where your first panel will be located you hold it against the wall and get it level (use a spirit level). It is most important that you get it level if you are going to add more panels because a small level error will magnify as the line of panels grows longer.
4. Included in the kit are 4 saddle clamps to fix the frame to a wall or fence.
5.   Hang the empty pots onto the frame and install the watering system.
6. The drippers are designed to regulate watering from a healthy stream to a complete off position. The adjustment is easily done by rotating the green top. Have the water turned on and then adjust the flow to a
   steady drip.
7.  Plant the hanging pots before you attach these to the panel. This means that you can do your potting at a bench at a good working height.
8. Hang the pots on the panel. Each pot has a flat hook at the rear. This slides over a wire on the panel. Once the pot is in position the most critical step is to position the dripper in the centre of the pot.
9. Water the plants as regularly as required. As a general rule the surface of the soil should dry out between drinks

SELECTION OF PLANTS

Trees by definition are not going to work.  The idea of a wall of vegetables is very appealing.Vegetables do best in high light situations. Flowering annuals can make a dramatic and welcoming splash of colour. Flowering annuals can make a dramatic and welcoming splash of colour. Examples are petunia, portulaca, pansy, viola, sweet alyssum and lobelia. For shaded east or south facing walls look at plants like bedding begonia and impatiens. For a more permanent show where regular watering might be a problem, look to succulents. There are many families of succulent plants where form and foliage colour creates long term features.

POTTING PLANTS

One of the real breakthroughs in the Holman Green Wall system is that pots can be removed from the frame. This means that you can do your potting at a bench at a good working height. You can even establish the plants on the ground before positioning on the frame. Once growing on the module if something goes wrong, its easy to remove a single pot and sort the problem and even replant and then pop it back into its original position. Choose top quality potting mixes as these will not only drain well but also have good water holding characteristics. Also these mixes wet easily and moisture readily spreads through the whole of the root zone.

RE-POTTING PLANTS
Empty the pot and use fresh potting mix. When planting up the pots fill the potting mix to the top of the lip as settling will bring it down as much as a centimetre once it is in the system. Additional pots will be available to buy separately and having a few spares can be a great idea You could for an example have a back up crop growing off the wall so that the changeover is instantaneous with the display always looking good.

FEEDING REQUIREMENTS

By choosing the Red tick potting mixes you will ensure that anything that you plant will have sufficient food to get them through a couple of months of growth. Following on from this there are two ways to go. One is to use a controlled release fertiliser and the main advantage is that most of the nutrients will be taken up by the plants. The trick is to apply a small amount so that you don’t find yourself staring at a stream of waste water coming out of the bottom of your Green Wall which contains most of the nutrients you applied at the top

DRIPPER FLOWS

You will note that the dripper flows can be quite accurately adjusted from OFF to a full flow. If you have pots of similar type you should try and set up all the drippers to drip at a similar rate. This way all pots get a similar amount of water. This is particularly useful when you have an automatic watering timer set up. Here you want the right amount of water to go to all pots in your green wall.

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