Cukes, Lettuce, Tomatoes in my Tower Garden

5/6/2012

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HERE'S A VIEW OF MY TOWER GARDEN THIS MORNING.
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The Tower Garden fits in a small square of my patio, and contains a variety of growing vegetables including two varieties of tomato, three varieties of lettuce, basil, kale and cucumbers.
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Beautiful Bibb lettuce.
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Red and green lettuce in foreground.
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I love how the cukes and tomatoes share space.
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[LEFT] An empty slot waiting for a new seedling. Basil to the left.

[RIGHT] Close-up of the water filtration system.
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I love watching the cucumbers develop!

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HYDROPONIC GARDENING?
CLICK HERE.

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Vertical Farming on NY Rooftop

5/5/2012

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Here's a great video by a very articulate fellow named John Mooney, who is the chef/owner of Bell, Book & Candle restaurant in NY's West End. Mooney has designed a hydroponic garden system for his restaurant, using the Tower Garden

Click here if you're interested in learning more about Tower Gardens and growing vegies, fruits, herbs and flowers hydroponically.
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Another hydroponic tower system video

5/5/2012

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UW Ph.D. candidate Nate Storey describes his hydroponic tower system that uses fish to provide nutrients for his main product -- vegetables. He tied for first in the 2011 Wyoming $10K Entrepreneurship Competition through the UW College of Business this past spring
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Video on Vertical Farming

5/5/2012

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Watch this 2-minute VIDEO ON VERTICAL FARMING featuring Dr. Dickson Despommier.
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Vertical Farming: The Future is Here!

5/5/2012

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I've just read an exciting newly published essay called The Vertical Farm by Dickson Despommier, which extols the value of vertical farming on a worldwide scale.

Despommier, who is with Colombia University, talks about the multitude of global and local benefits that result from vertical farming. These include sustainable community farming, restoring damaged ecosystems, cost efficiency, land conservation, lowering health risks to infectious agents and a significant reduction in the use of fossil fuels.

Says Despommier: "Growing food close to home will lower significantly the amount of fossil fuels needed to deliver them to the consumer, and will eliminate forever the need for fossil fuels during the act of farming (i.e., plowing, applying fertilizer, seeding, weeding, harvesting)."

This essay reinforces my belief that my Tower Garden, which follows the vertical farm system, is the way to go!

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