Abstract: There is provided a column planter including a tank to be filled with water, a plurality of planting pots stackable on top of each other, to form at least one column of stacked pots, each pot having a central opening in its bottom, as well as a plurality of drainage holes, and a substantially vertical, substantially rigid tube for each column on which tube, with their central openings, are strung the pots of the column. The lower end of the tube is supported in the tank and the tube is of such length as to at least protrude beyond the soil surface of the uppermost pot in a column and an emitter is attached to the upper end of the vertical tube. There are further provided mounting and supporting members for affixing the column of pots on the tank, and a pump having an inlet and an outlet opening and adapted to draw water from the tank.

Abstract: An arrangement for growing plants which includes a multiplicity of containers each having a bottom face, side walls and an open upper face, the containers being at least partially filled with a medium for growing plants and being stacked in the form of a self-supporting columns, and all containers above the lowest one being supported at least indirectly by a container positioned below, the stacking formation allowing an open space to remain between the side walls of upper and lower containers or between the projections thereof. Drain apertures are provided in each container for allowing excess fluid to exit therefrom, and the excess fluid draining system communicates with a lower container of each column.