This is my innovative way of avoiding transplant shock in my seedling starter plants. After a week of increasing sun exposure by placing them outside in their propagation trays for increased periods each day. I planted my seedlings into the soil today. The the weather now is a bit cooler and a bit overcast. Tomorrow should […]
Category: Urban Gardening
Tower Gardens vital in Urban Vertical Gardening
Here is the link to a online article I came across. Great story about how vertical gardening is being used in urban areas by restaurants and even grocery stores to grow fresh produce using Tower Gardens. http://snip.ly/zSRF#http://www.organicauthority.com/will-urban-vertical-gardens-save-our-food-system/ If you found this post Tower Gardens vital in Urban Vertical Gardening useful please share with your friends on […]
Vertical Garden is a Lettuce Growing Machine
Our Vertical Gardens are now just full of fresh produce ready to harvest! We will be harvesting and replanting at once for our second crop of this growing season. We have been eating from our vertical gardens for several months now. Going out daily and picking fresh greens to make our morning Green Shake or for […]
Vertical Garden Sun Reflector
Do you have a problem with the only location you have for your Vertical Garden not getting enough light during the day? Doug Barlow has this problem. His home has a high bluff on the east side that keeps that side of the house in a shadow most of the day. On the west side of the […]
Hand Pollinate Tomatoes, Zucchini and other plants in Vertical Garden
Are your zucchini or tomatoe plants growing like crazy in your Vertical Garden? Do they have had lots of flowers but are giving little or no fruit? If you are experiencing this, it could be caused by a lack of pollination due to the decline of the native bee population. Today more gardeners have to manually pollinate […]
Vertical Garden Ripe Strawberries in 75 Days!
These strawberries were just tiny plant starts when planted in my Tower Garden Vertical Garden the middle of March. Now it’s Memorial Day weekend and I am picking ripe strawberries from my Tower Garden. All in just two and a half months! My strawberries in traditional my soil beds still have green strawberries that show no […]
How to Plan Your Perfect Tower Garden
Spring is in the air! Here in the Pacific Northwest the plum and cherry trees blossoms have come and for the most part are already gone, being replaced with new leaf growth. Now is the time to begin to plan what you are going to be growing this year in your Tower Gardens. There are […]
Tower Garden Getting Ready For New Strawberry Crop
Today Bob took the Tower Garden I use to grow strawberries each year and got it ready for me to plant. He took the black plastic 30-gallon trash bags off. My Tower Garden was still clean just the way I left it after cleaning it at the end of the growing season in October. To see […]
Tower Garden Has Higher Yield University of Mississippi Study Shows
The University of Mississippi published a research paper about growing vegetables in a Tower Garden. The study reveals that plants grown in aeroponic systems show a higher product yield and comparable antioxidant properties compared to those grown in soil. OleMiss planted 24 Tower Gardens with basil, chard, parsley, red kale, bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, and […]
Tower Garden Easy to Assemble
Here is a You Tube video about putting together the Tower Garden. It is a well-produced homemade video.