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Tower Garden

Planting a Hydroponic Garden

Planting a Hydroponic Garden

All growing starts with planting. Planting a hydroponic garden is no different from conventional soil planting. We love to start our plants from seeds, it is part of the gardening fun. With discovering hydroponics and indoor gardening a whole new gardening world opened up to us. Now planting a ...

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7 Reasons to Grow a Tower Garden - Review

7 Reasons to Grow an Aeroponic Tower Garden – Review

With the growing interest in gardening, the Tower Garden has gain popularity as well. Most reviews you will find are from distributors who want to sell a Tower Garden, and that's understandable. We are not distributors, we are growers. After growing the Tower Garden by Juice Plus for many years we ...

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In this video I take you on a tour to inspire you to be growing an indoor edible garden in the kitchen and food production garage. Hope you enjoy it.

Growing an Indoor Edible Garden – Video

With November, the outdoor gardening season is definitely over. However, the planting and growing here at Northern Homestead is not over. We have only moved from the outdoors to the indoors. We grow sprouts on the kitchen counter, herbs in a sunny window, and a real indoor garden in our Food ...

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Our experience growing the Tower Garden in cold climate, which enables us to grow more food in our short summers as well as throughout our long, cold winter.

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 and through the Tower Garden into hydroponics. We ...

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3 Reasons To Grow Your Own Salad and How To Do It in soil in a square food garden or in hydroponics using aeroponics or the kratky method.

3 Reasons To Grow Your Own Salad Greens and How To Do It

3 Reasons to grow your own salad greens and how to do it in the soil in a square foot garden or in hydroponics, aeroponics or the Kratky method. A retired M.D. still remembers how he and his wife started in our rural area. His wife wanted to buy some salad greens from a local store, but there ...

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Jakob und Anna winter 2Northern Homestead is a blog about urban homesteading in a cold climate. We write about growing, raising, preserving, and preparing our own real food.
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We share how we build things and use alternative energies. Building a greenhouse is almost a must in a northern climate to overcome cold and frost.

Growing

Growing your own food year round using organic methods. Here you will find many proven gardening tips and ideas.

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Preserving

Under Preserving we share how we preserve food. With only about 100 frost free days, we want to preserve and store our summer bounties as much as we can to have homegrown food all throughout the long winter

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