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A container system for growing plants includes a container and a growing medium. The container comprises one or more flat but flexible wall panels (10, 10′, 10″, 62) and connectors (12, 12′, 12″, 24 and 25, 66) for joining adjacent wall panel edges to form a continuous container wall. The panels hav

A container system for growing plants includes a container and a growing medium. The container comprises one or more flat but flexible wall panels (10, 10′, 10″, 62) and connectors (12, 12′, 12″, 24 and 25, 66) for joining adjacent wall panel edges to form a continuous container wall. The panels have openings (18, 90, 98) through which plants (40) can be grown. Openings not in use are closed by integral flaps (16, 63), which spring open or shut owing to the curvature of the panels and the flexibility of the panel walls, and snap shut into the openings. Long panel connectors include channels (20, 28) for receiving and engaging complementary panel edges, and stiffen the containers. Perforated irrigation tubes (44) may stand in the assembled containers and pass through apertured top caps (50); bottom caps (50, 70) provide drainage. The containers can be extended in size by connecting further wall panels, and some can be stacked. A growing medium for use in the containers comprises a 4:1 mix of young sphagnum moss peat sized between 20 mm and 40 mm and perlite sized between 3 mm and 6 mm, with mineral additives and a wetting agent.

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A container for growing plants in a growing medium which comprises: at least one wall panel provided with openings through which plants can be grown, said one wall panel being generally stiff but capable of being resiliently flexed between planar and curved configurations, being essentially planar i

A container for growing plants in a growing medium which comprises: at least one wall panel provided with openings through which plants can be grown, said one wall panel being generally stiff but capable of being resiliently flexed between planar and curved configurations, being essentially planar in its unflexed state, and being vertical and curved in ground plan in the assembled container; closure means for said openings in said wall panel, said closure means comprising flaps which are integral with the panel, which lie in the plane of the wall panel when closed, which are formed by making cuts through the panel, which open outwardly to form the openings on horizontal hinges defined between opposite ends of the cuts at the lowermost edges of the flaps, and which are retained in the openings when the flaps are reclosed; and panel connector means connecting together adjacent wall panel edges to form a continuous container wall.