Vertical garden construction at OEC

Our latest vertical gardening project is for OEC, a Boise company committed to creating dynamic, innovative and effective work spaces. Here's a mockup of how the two sided vg will look mounted to their entry desk partition:



This is the first entry of two that will photo-document the entire construction process.

Step One: Cut mineral wool batts for the 28 square foot, two sided vg



Step Two: Drill the bracket that will be used to attach the vg to the 5x5 partition post


Step Three: Attach the bracket to the 7/16 OSB vg armature


Step Four: trim bracket bolts



Step Five: Attach waterproofing vapor barrier to OSB


Step Six: Drill for 5/16 double sided mounting screws


Step Seven: Attach bolts, carriage washers and nuts






Step Ten: Carve out inclined planting chambers


Step Eleven:  Fabricate 109 emitter T's



Step Twelve: Sharpen goof plug at the base of each emitter T


Step Thirteen:  Plunge emitters into the mineral wool batts above each planting chamber



Step Fourteen: Attach transfer tubing



Step Fifteen:  Insulative Mineral Wool insulation to the attic!



Step Sixteen: Use wood glue and loose mineral wool to seal seams between batts


Step Seventeen:  Use hot glue gun to seal emitters



NEXT: Completing the OEC vertical garden...