Please make a video that show step by small step how to make this and also how to plant the seeds/ seedlings/ plants and how to arrange the watering for your many beginner admirers who very much want to create something similar
Boy was this evera tease. No detailed instruction. Sure there are pictures but my vision is poor. I guess Iwill not be trying this in my garden. I will follow Larry hall.
I want to do this in my school greenhouse, which already has some "real estate" dedicated to hydroponics which I must use and understand. But I want to dedicate equal space (and vertical space) to THIS low tech system and compare costs and output of the hydroponics with it. I made an outdoor prototype with students this summer to get into it -- but now have more questions. To avoid algal growth when intending successive cropping, is wrapping the bottles in opaque material necessary? I also would like to start out with excellent balanced soil. I am thinking of using Vermont Compost's Fort Vee mix in part, with some local soil and some leaf compost. (Fort Vee is costly but has crushed granite and other supplements and a lot of compost, and worked wonderfully with soil blocks this spring. It increases costs but will give greater assurance of success for a student project. I am also thinking of mixing in some locally produced Biochar.) But for now my biggest questions are: 1. is wrapping the bottles to prevent algal growth necessary as I hope to use the same soil for successive growing? 2. Given the low arc of the sun in the winter months here (Cape Cod, MA) has anyone experimented with having the bottles mounted on panels that have a slight tilt to the north, and what low tech engineering solutions have they found, if so? Is there a way to have several banks or rows spaced north-south in a greenhouse? What fast growing crops are best suited to using this indoors in winter months? Is there benefit (necessity?) to use grow lights in the winter? Grateful for any comments here from your experiences! Rand Burkert, Greenhouse Teacher at Nauset Public Middle School.
1. is wrapping the bottles to prevent algal growth necessary as I hope to use the same soil for successive growing? I never encountered any negative effect of algae. 2. Given the low arc of the sun in the winter months here (Cape Cod, MA) has anyone experimented with having the bottles mounted on panels that have a slight tilt to the north, and what low tech engineering solutions have they found, if so? I live in the temperate climate of Belgium. We do not cultivate in winter, but fertilize our towers early spring with compost tea. No problems to keep the sale soil for years. Is there a way to have several banks or rows spaced north-south in a greenhouse? I expect positive results. What fast growing crops are best suited to using this indoors in winter months? I would go for lettuce, chilli peppers and the classic herbs, like thyme, celery, ârsley, oregano etc. Is there benefit (necessity?) to use grow lights in the winter? Maybe some crops would need it, but all depends upon your choice.
Dear professor, thank you for for the detailed explanation - I will definitely try it this year. I just wonder : I have not seen strawberries in this garden - I guess that this means that they do not respond well to this type of gardening?
Hello Jelena. This is a video about our experiments with bottle towers. We did not use strawberries, but many photos have been already published with strawberries growing on towers. Try to Google "strawberries on tower".
No offence but I’m not a fan of reading info on videos (I prefer vids That talk) but apart from that nice seedlings. I can read blogs online when I want to just see pictures and writing for way less data if ya get what I’m saying. I’m not complaining or hating though at all: each to their own 😊 I just like to give ppl input cos it helps u know what ppl like I guess hey 🤷♀️ How are they growing now? Have they fruited yet mate?
When collecting the seeds from the fruit, wash them first in a weak soap solution, then wash off the soap and let them dry thoroughly before getting them germinating.
This video helped me plant two red tomato trees in my yard two years ago and now I have a move coming up so I rewatched it to help me create trees from their fruit (and my neighbour's yellow variety) at the new place
