Grow Food Vertically in Windows and Walls of your Home with Hydroponic Gardening
John from www.growingyourgreens.com visits the maker faire to learn about how to grow food in your windows and on your walls. Plants on walls a new system to grow plants vertically up any inside or outside well. Also learn about window gardens, a way to hydroponically grow food in any window of an apartment, condo or home. These are great alternatives to container growing in small spaces.
25 Responses to Grow Food Vertically in Windows and Walls of your Home with Hydroponic Gardening
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good point..
kaybronson100
February 26, 2013 at 9:59 pm
just use string and a little net to support the squash or other fruit so it can grow and not rip itself of the plant.
nickwoo2
February 26, 2013 at 10:34 pm
Cool
trekcannondale11
February 26, 2013 at 11:06 pm
Really neat, a bit restricted sure but wouldn’t the plants get overwatered?
NyxTheLady
February 26, 2013 at 11:41 pm
Yes, obviously I get it. Can you not read? Obviously it’s a matter of scaling it, but you also have to scale up your window as well. You can’t just have a giant container with out having a giant window as well.
enticed2zeitgeist
February 27, 2013 at 12:11 am
don’t you get it, what they’re trying to show is that if you can do that with a plastic bottle, you can do that with a bigger box as well. it’ll be the same system, but the bottles will be replaced with something lot bigger. it’s totally scalable, that’s what so awesome about this stuff. especially considering water is so valuable. a lot of it is being reused.
nepalihercules
February 27, 2013 at 12:58 am
Technically, the gas would’ve been eliminated from the tires through excessive cleaning before they melt it down into a tube. Because, really, would you start burning something that is covered in gas? 😛
Trickielion47
February 27, 2013 at 1:56 am
thx for the vid
simone gervais
February 27, 2013 at 2:04 am
Hey John, Wouldn’t the recycled tires the wall units use for water tube still off gas into your food? I am worried about the toxic effects of some of the recycled items…
impbev
February 27, 2013 at 2:27 am
They should use 2 liter bottles….or maybe 3 liter…more soil, larger plants. That’s the only problem with the window farm…the pots are too small.
Mattybones247
February 27, 2013 at 2:30 am
Hey I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed reading your Video. You have good views; keep up the good informative info. Good Quality and very informative Video.
andrew symonds
February 27, 2013 at 2:44 am
I have grown cantaloupe, tomatoes,peppers and a few other things in flower pots. Salad fixins can be grown in a 8″pot or other container all year long. the cantaloupe is small but tastes good. but you may be able to grow larger ones. some people just buy a big bag of dirt and cut the bag in the middle and grow vegetables.
teanna marcia
February 27, 2013 at 3:09 am
John, you look good with blue fur =:3
Crystal Tweeboom
February 27, 2013 at 3:17 am
Plantsonwalls [dot] com start at $33 for a mini-panel
Their website has lots of info but strangely not the right info.
moxmox1
February 27, 2013 at 3:20 am
you’ve probably eaten from worse but didn’t know it.
Christy Hutcherson
February 27, 2013 at 3:45 am
The small bottle units and the wall farming is a neat idea. Like everyone else who has commented, I can’t see us growing squash and other big veggies in this small of a system. But in a world with depleting top soil, rising populations and ever growing climate concerns you can’t deny we need all the solutions we can get. Big and small.
enticed2zeitgeist
February 27, 2013 at 3:53 am
Missing any trace elements? Can an independent lab do comparison tests between soil and hydro growing? I believe there are mechanisms to do so.
GeraldCelentetrendma
February 27, 2013 at 4:23 am
Im not sure i like the idea of eating from reused tires and plastics , might be dodgy.
hablerz
February 27, 2013 at 4:35 am
Please…. oh, please, tell me you’re going to hook chicco up with one of those flower dog houses.
halleysmommy
February 27, 2013 at 5:26 am
too bad we dont have a fair like that in windsor!
MrGreenbudha
February 27, 2013 at 5:30 am
I’m not sold on these for large vegetables like tomatoes. Sure, you could place it there and it looks really cool at the festival. BUT…will it thrive? At best: salad farming. Which is still cool looking.
1111atreides
February 27, 2013 at 6:19 am
Sweet! Another pinball lover. We are a rare breed. Window farming… not much room for growth it looks unless it is still to be put out side eventually.
Jerrid3
February 27, 2013 at 6:55 am
it would make kevin’s air cleaner if he grew on his rv walls too =D then it would truly deserve the name “The Kale Whale”.
Necrowitch
February 27, 2013 at 7:45 am
john!!!! once again you are sooo awsome my gf is gonna love her new foxymonster hat
Tha Kushaholic
February 27, 2013 at 8:01 am
love the ideas!
fatpius
February 27, 2013 at 8:11 am