Growing Tons of Vegetables in Water! Hydroponic Growing! 

I’m a Canadian senior who recently discovered Mike Vandez (I think). I’m just learning about this method, and am doing my research. We have bitterly cold winters here in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, -30c on average this winter, so I’m trying to figure out what I can grow inside for a food supply. Our cost of living and housing has become so overwhelming in Canada, that most of the seniors/disabled can’t afford a healthy diet. The problem is, we can’t afford even moderately priced online hydroponics courses to learn the nitty gritty either. Personally I’m scared to death; I am 5’2” and have shrunk to less than 100lbs. I’m terrified that if I don’t find an affordable healthy food source, I’ll just continue to deteriorate, so are a lot of my friends. We are far from alone. As Canadian seniors we can’t complain or we’ll be offered MAID for being too poor to eat properly ( something you should never know!) Thank you for sharing your actual food blend without taking a course. I have subscribed and will look up the other people you mentioned that you’ve learned from. If you could please share how to do everything on an alternative budget, so we can all afford to do this. So through this methodology we can afford greens and nutrients to help us survive. ❤️

The first time I saw hydroponics and grow lights used was in the 1970's by the pot farmers in Washington state growing weed in their closets. I hadn't seen that before because I'm from California where people just grew outdoors. The marijuana farmers have always been on the forefront of hydroponics and grow lights. Whether or not you agree with the use of marijuana it's still worth picking those guys brains, they have this stuff down to a science.

Bella: "You poor fella. You are talking to yourself. It's ok. I am here to help." Lol❤

This is my first comment on your videos, after a few years of following. I just wanted to thank you for your service to the community as a LEO, and by way of spreading knowledge via RU-vid. You’re and inspiration AATW!

I 💘 this channel i can't stop watching it. It will help you out a lot on crops and working with animals. I 💘 Houston and Emily with their cute selves. Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers. I 💘 you all and your channel too.😄😄😄 Keep up the good work. Lo

Thanks for all of your gardening advice. I plan to get my 6 year old granddaughter to help me with gardening this year. I have mostly raised beds but I will now try some Hydroponics. God bless you and your family!

I wasn't going to get into planting this year. With COVID-19, we've been so busy and stressed, I'm a nurse and my husband works in hospital as well. I have to say, the hydroponic tubs look pretty great. I wouldn't have to worry so much about watering and pests getting into the beds. Thanks for sharing Daniel.

Daniel, your passion for growing your own produce is proving to be extremely successful... All your plants look healthy and delicious... Great job and thank you for sharing your knowledge👍

We just started ours on our apartment deck thanks for the idea. Can't wait until we start blooming and harvesting! Thanks arms family stay humble 😁

Loving your videos since I found you in March. I javelin started 2 55 gallon hydroponic gardens. One has 2 banana peppers and they are doing great. I repurposed small coffeemate containers for pots. The other barrel has 3 varieties of cucumber and 1 cherry tomato. I have already harvested the first cluster of tomatoes and cucumbers just started to blossom this week. I followed your instructions except I star with water from my koi pond. I water everything with fish poop. I have had to add a couple gallons of water a couple of times but that came from the koi pond too. I have two more barrels to start soon. Can't wait. Thank you so much this has been a lot of fun. Hope it holds up in florida heat.

I love being in the high tunnel. This is where I learn the most from you. Thanks God bless, take care and be safe.

Your garden vegetables are growing so well & healthy looking. I grow my leafy greens in the Kratky methods during winter, but haven't try growing anything during the summer, because our temperature is so hot and humid here. Probably will give it a try this year, since your pepper and cucumber plants looking so healthy. Thanks for sharing your garden experiences.

Great video brother. Real down to earth explanations. I ran across your videos about a month ago when I decided to do some more research about hydroponics. Your videos are by far the most practical. And you don't just teach facts, you share experiences, good and bad. Keep at it. I hope you, your family and your homestead prosper greatly this year.

Your hydroponic garden is great. You are such a great inspiration. Thank you for your service, my friend.

I saw your other video last year. It inspired me to start gardening this way. I used to have a black thumb. I now have a squash plant growing. Please please make more of these videos.

Great information without fancy language. Instantly accessible to people. Thanks and keep up the amazing work!

Love the video, ha ha ha ha Bella. There's Houston, nice to see his smiling face. I like that vertical planter, that would be perfect for myself and I lack good space. Thank s for sharing!

Thanks for this! I saw your video a few weeks ago, with the tote on your patio. I live in an apartment with a patio that gets morning sun, but is all shade after about 12. I've struggled growing in pots. I started researching this method and have started ordering supplies. Now to get my hands on a drill, to drill the holes... 😜 This was really helpful! I'm ordering the clay beads that you showed, instead of the rockwool grow cubes that another video recommended. That way I can start my seeds in dirt, like I normally would. Thanks for the tip about rain. I have a covered patio but this is good to know, so I can pull the totes in closer to the door to avoid the added water.

I did a cucumber, cherry tomato and believe it or not, a corn plant in 5 gallon hydroponic buckets. They grew so much faster and produced so much fruit. Can't wait to do more this year.

Thank you for sharing your hydroponics experiment that you have worked on.. It will really help especially those who are beginners.. Happy planting. Happy growing. More blessings to come😇💚

I enjoy how you share details of what to do in your own backyard. That high tunnel is awesome. You have me wanting a good salad.

Great video - Hubby's grand daughter is wanting to get into growing food and herbs...sharing so she can watch and learn!

You’re a wonderful teacher 👨‍🏫, thanks for all the info. Even in small spaces you can grow a garden!

Give Bella a kiss. 🐕 Love the beautiful plants you have 🌱 and inspiration you give.

This is one of the best vids I’ve watched on this. Thank you!!!!! Makes me want to start right now

Have a Blessed Memorial Day. Thanks to you and your family I have several different projects going. May God Bless and keep you all, Most of all, God Bless our fallen & their families, they gave it ALL, God Bless our Country that was the beginning of it ALL.

Daniel great video. The difference between peppers grown outside, inside the high tunnel in soil, in wicking tubs, hydroponic barrels is awesome. I just recently saw Bobby's video using perlite. Let me say that cabbage of his must be a record breaker lol. Thanks for this one because our high tunnel is doing great. We are going to try the barrel for cukes and a tub for 1 zucchini for our experiment. Hope all is well. God bless ❤😊🙏

Your tower planter is really doing well! The hydro plants are amazing too!👍

Thank you for sharing. There are so many ways to grow food now. It's nice to see you growing them in different situations.

What a BEAUTIFUL Garden! So Admirable...wow! I'm a believer in those hydro containers now! Thank you! Genius!

You introduced me to this method. And I greatly appreciate it. After research and trial and error I have grown massive cherry tomato plants and Carolina reapers peppers. Unfortunately zucchini plants only grow great until it starts fruiting then blows through water like crazy. Larger tomatoes do the same

Enjoyed watching you working in your hydroponics gardening. We have had some cold weather here in Northeast Georgia. Cold mornings and cool days. Growing my vegs is off to a slow start.

I received my greenstalk planter in the mail yesterday! I plan on planting my tiny Tim tomatoes and strawberries in it.

Checked again for the fertilizer. I noticed you have very healthy plants. Thanks again.

We are trying hydroponics for the first time this year! cant wait to see how it works out for us too! Best of luck this growing season!

You have great garden plants. You are having great success with your hydroponics. Way to go.

I'm so excited for my GreenStalk! Yours look great!

Thanks so much. We live in South Fl. We have a 9 month summer growing season lol. This will lengthen our growing season tremendously for heat sensitive varieties.

Wow, this is border line amazing. New concepts and possibilities. Thanks so much for this informational video.

Just love your content and how you simplify and show how you grow your greens very inspiring!!🌿🌱🌾👍

All your Gardens are so very nice! They look beautiful!

Your fur baby like mine, wants to see what I'm doing and trying to grab some veggies to eat. Stay safe and blessings to your family.

Your videos are always so informative. Thanks for sharing your knowledge

Thank you so much for the information/inspiration! I will start on Hydroponics and vertical gardening :))

I always love learning from you ! Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge !!

Good and I enjoy watching cause your the only one that can be done hydroponic out side the house. Thank you very much bro.

Great tutorial!! I've always wanted to try hydroponics but you have made it simple and easy. Thanks!!

First time viewer and i really enjoyed your video. Great approach in trying various methods in growing your veggies.

Hi to Arms Family Homestead , that garden looks so amazing with them beautiful crops. Great work on that garden and plants. This was a nice video about crops i 💘 it. Thanks for sharing and Happy Mother's Day to all the mother's. God Bless You

Awesome video very informative. Jimmy Houston is growing his channel by leaps and bounds.

Thank You very much. We like your dogs and your son too. We are in Canada .

My friend said he liked it so I desided to check it out

Great video. Just had boiled turnips n onions for supper. Finally enjoying garden stuff

Have been watching your channel for awhile now. I truly enjoy watching you and your family. Live in Northern California now but orginially Upstate New York. I did grow up on a farm of my grandparents. My son's hair when he was young was almost white and long. He's older now and it's a military length or shortness. Becareful out on the road. Stay well and love Houston, DeeJay, Emma, and you as well. Really do like the Alpaca's (donkey poodles), dogs, and goats.

As an experiment I took a couple "armpits" off of a tomato plant and just stuck them in plastic juice bottles. In there for over a month cuz I planned to put them in dirt but didn't have any at the time...no fertilizer. After finally planting them in a black plastic tote, these mater plants ended up huge! But I'm going to try water gardening next spring. Thanks for the awesome info!

Would love more videos of your garden, wicking buckets, and barrels! Not many out there that are growing this way and I am trying it this year

Love you guys I talk about you guys all the time!!

Your my favorite channel

Love that tote for the greens. Wayda grow!!

Very informative. I think I might try and see if I can grow something. Thanks Daniel. God bless. Stay safe♥️🇺🇸🌹

Yes that would be a fruit! LOL! I like how you correct yourself. I didn't realize until this video that your hi tunnel opens up in the middle for ventilation. That's pretty cool! Nice garden. Hey Bella! Missed Bear! Oh yeah, hey Houston! LOL!

Okay. This is a great idea for me, beginners. Really like this stuff. Tx

very informative, I'm going to try a few plants this year

Great video thanks Daniel

Those vertical planters are Wonderful!

That’s a awesome amount of greens 🥬 Daniel. Hey Houston! 👍👍👍💯💯💯

I make my own netcups out of yogurt cups. Works fine. I sometimes use a large lid netpot in 5 gallon buckets , I got them from Amazon. I use those for tomatoes. I use the masterblend and other two you use as well.

I had gone to a farmer's market a few years ago, I was sold some bok choy flowers. They were wonderful...they had a nutty flavor.

Love your videos man keep on doing what you’re doing.👍

I love this video,,tell DJ,, Happy Mother's Day❤️

You really really have a wonderful way of presenting everything some people with their growing on RU-vid just meander on and on but you were really helpful I enjoyed your first video and I am going to subscribe

This is something me and my husband may look into. We don't have a lot of room. This year we are doing the squar foot garden so far so good on that.

Drill a couple holes in that tub on the patio for overflow. You’ll never have to empty rain water. :) Happy growing.

Makes me want to try hydroponics! Your gardens look great.

Very interesting. Garden time is an awesome time. Keep safe. 🙏👍❤🍓🌱🌿🐝🐝

All of your plants and vegetables look amazing! Love all of your videos and love your shirt! Haha

lets not forget the 55 gallon bucket that had the cucumber plants that died to overheating thanks so much for all your knowledge i got my 55 gallon buckets with masterblend and also the wicker 5 gallon buckets great results here up north in toronto canada thanks again brother...

Thank you for this interesting video on hydroponic growing.

I love how you referenced a domino for the configuration of the plants 😂 My Okie family would greatly approve 😉

I love your videos and hope y'all stay safe and healthy during this pandemic😊😊

Your high tunnel garden looks amazing!

That is awesome, so miss my garden when I can buy the garden tower I will enjoy grow plants again. Stay safe & take care of you all. Thanks for sharing eh :))

I enjoy your channel a lot & I agree with the gal that said you would make a great teacher bc you make things very easy & INTERESTING to understand! Thank you for all the vlogs you make Daniel! I like how you & Dutch are friends & YOUR both great father's & men! Love both your wives & YOUR adorable children! Houston is such a little charmer! He is a great Youngman! GOD BLESS YOU & YOUR FAMILY! Hello from Orange County, CA ( I live in Anaheim but closer to Anaheim Hills & Yorba Linda, CA. Disneyland is close by but my 4 son's are all grown up & MY GRANDAUGHTER IS 18 years old, so I still like Disneyland but not so much as I'm more into your kinda living, which believe me, IS MUCH BETTER! I have folks that live in W.V & Ohio & I miss it there! I GREW up helping my Grandparents out with their lovely huge garden & I remember their tomatoes were so big & delicious it's no wonder they have the BEST PIZZA IVE EVER HAD in the small town called Follansbee, Cross Creek, Weirton, West Virginia where ALL MY Cousins still live! It's such beautiful country & good living!

nice plants I can,t get over the roots on your vegetable plants that's a lot I well have to try growing my plants like that some time thanks for sharing

I love all of the videos you guys make

Man, a lot of really nice plants you've grown.

I love it Daniel you have gave me lots of ideas my kids love growing any kid of plants and so do I they want to make videos since they see your kid huston on there talking with you lol anyway awesome video.

Love seeing all the different planting experiments.

I love growing myself too really love your garden 💛 💕 ❤.

Thank you! This was a great tutorial! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS!

I love it! I'm going to try growing some in my goldfish pond!

If police officin' doesn't work out for ya, you'd be a great teacher. You make things easy to understand. Must be from rearin' them youngins all these years, or explainin' to people how to follow directions at work? x) Father's Day is comin' up, I hope yours is the greatest! Love from Philly

Wow I'm going to try the Hydroponics. Looks very promising. Thanks for the Links. God Bless and Peace Be With You All ☮️🙏❣️

Awesome ideas! I love learning new ways to grow! Thanks for sharing! ❤️🍃🌿🌱

You really helped me, so thank you!

Wow your Tatsoi is beautiful. I started that 2 years ago, I grow it in a sunny window with water.... It is so prolific I eat off tht along with my red sils. water spinach etc all grown on a window sill the tatsoi is nor my favorite. I have lights now to grow even more on my counter. I can grow. so far about 40 plants indoors... Almost better than in my large garden, outside.. Nice video.. thanks

That was a maze video clip you put together there off yor vegetable garden and your hydroponic there 👍👍

This is interesting. Your videos are so good, I like watching them.

Great video, getting ready to do some experiments, this was helpful.

Hi Bella! We love you!