An indoor garden is a place where winter does not exist, and that's quite something when you live in a cold climate. Indeed, it is a happy place. Being happy seems to be most important, as one of my recent books says: "You must allow yourself to be the being that life has caused you to become if ...
Hydroponic Gardening
NFT downspout Hydroponics system upgrade
Nutrient Film Technique (N.F.T.) Downspout Hydroponics is an exceptionally simple hydroponics setup. Last winter we built a NFT downspout Hydroponics system to grow lettuce indoors all throughout the winter. We share a how-to here. We are very pleased how the system works, of all the other ...
High Pressure Aeroponics Guide
Recently we described our NFT downspout hydroponics system which you can read about here. Now imagine having a large box for the plant's roots that are now suspended in the air, and the nutrient-rich water solution is being sprayed onto the roots in a form of a fine mist. What you will get is called ...
GARDEN UPDATE – Winter 2019 ON VIDEO
Winter 2019 has been good to us and now it is time for a garden update - winter 2019 on video. We do these updates to encourage you and us to keep growing. To see what has worked well and what needs improvement and to learn from it. You can see last years' winter garden update here. During the ...
N.F.T. Downspout Hydroponics Setup
There are a few types of hydroponic systems: Water Culture, Ebb and Flow (Flood & Drain), Drip (recovery or non-recovery), N.F.T. (Nutrient Film Technique) and Aeroponic. We already listed the benefits of a vertical aeroponics system here, in this article I want to show you how to set up a ...
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water
Growing an indoor edible window garden in water instead of soil opens a whole new world of indoor gardening. Growing plants in water is called hydroponics, here plant nutrients are distributed via water. The word "hydro" simply means water, hence hydroponics. The benefits of growing an indoor ...
7 Reasons to Grow an Aeroponic Tower Garden
There are many good reasons to grow a garden, any garden. However, there are special reasons for growing an aeroponic garden. We happen to have the Tower Garden by Juice Plus. But there are other great aeroponic systems available. However, I will refer to the Tower Garden. Some of these reasons will ...
Growing the Tower Garden in Cold Climate
We are Tower Garden growers in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, Canada – elevation 1,037 m (3,402 ft). It’s cold here! The short growing season and the cool, short summers were the main reasons we got into Tower Garden gardening. We wanted to be able to grow more in a short summer, ...
Growing Food the Kratky Hydroponics Way
Growing food is becoming a priority for more and more people. Homegrown food tastes better, is healthier, and is a lot more affordable. However, you might not be so lucky to own land to grow food, in fact, you might not own one speck of land to grow food on. So what to do? Thankfully there are many ...
Planting a Hydroponic Garden
Planting is always an exciting time. To see new life spring up and grow fascinates me. I love to start our plants from seeds, it is part of the gardening fun. With the purchase of our hydroponic Tower Garden a whole new gardening method opened up to us. Now planting a garden is not limited to spring ...