Urban Gardens

Woolly Pockets are flexible, breathable, and modular gardening containers available in two styles: those designed to be placed on horizontal surfaces, and those designed to be hung on walls for vertical gardening. Woolly Pockets can be used both indoors and out; they have built-in moisture barriers to help protect furniture, and they’re equally at home outside in the elements. They’re perfect for creating urban gardens where you have space to garden but no land to garden in. Woolly Pockets are lightweight and can be folded flat, which makes them very easy to use, move, and store just about anywhere.

What is a vertical garden?
A vertical garden, sometimes called a living wall, is an organized system of plants that grow vertically up a wall, fence, or other vertical surface. Vertical gardens are a beautiful way to show off plants, cover an unsightly wall, or create privacy in a courtyard. Because they are hung vertically, vertical gardens hardly take up any space. The Woolly Pocket Vertical Gardening System is unique because it’s easy to install, completely modular, and very easy to maintain.

What is breathability?
Plants need oxygen in their soil in order to thrive. Woolly Pockets are made of felt derived from recycled plastic bottles that allows the soil to refresh its oxygen supply.


Regular drip irrigation fittings mostly hidden in and behind the pockets. 2 adjustable drip heads per individual Pocket.

Living Dining Room Wall w/internal drip irrigation

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


Santa Monica Blvd Charter School’s new Woolly Pocket Edible Schoolyard

Woolly Pockets are constructed in the USA of mostly locally sourced sustainable materials. They contain two main components: the breathable felt and the built-in moisture barrier. The breathable portion is made of 100% recycled plastic bottles that have been industrially felted. The moisture barrier is made according to military standards for impermeability from 60% recycled plastic bottles. Each pocket is stitched together by hand with a double lock stitch and strong, UV-resistant nylon thread.

Kinds of plants to grow in the Pockets
Nearly any plant that can grow in a container should be able to grow in Woolly Pockets. Pick plants that are the right size for their new Pocket home. The bigger the Pocket, the bigger the plant it can hold.


Living Floor

The best soil to use
Choosing a suitable growing medium for your plants is key to your gardening success. The important thing to remember when choosing potting soil is that is should provide water retention, drainage, and nutrition. Most quality brands of all-purpose potting soil provide all of these things. The company’s current favorite brand of soil is EarthGro All-Purpose Indoor/Outdoor Potting Soil. It can be purchased at a variety of gardening centers including Home Depot.

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

Opportunity for UK Urban Gardeners
For the first Wooly Pocket project in the UK, Gardenbeet.com is looking for a vacant high exposure indoor/outdoor wall for a Wooly Pocket vertical garden placement. In exchange for products and labor at trade prices, they are offering free design and six months maintenace wherein any plants that die will be replaced.  The site must be located close to London, Richmond, near a water source for drip feed irrigation and have good site surveillance.