Window Farms And A Clip-On Apartment Garden

hughe — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:51:06 +0000

No yard space to grow your veggies? No problem, just build your own Vertical Hydroponic Window Farm. Now anyone can grow crops. All you need is a window and the hydroponic kit. If you follow the link in the article to the WindowFarms Project website you will see that the latest version can grow 16 plants provided your window is large enough. It is possible to modify the system to double the plant capacity to 32. And the more plants you grow the more efficient in terms of the amount of nutritional calories per fossil fuel calorie the system becomes. And if you’re not quite sure what that means, you will just have to read the article on their site. Read more..

If you’re feeling slightly more ambitious and want to increase the growing space in your apartment a group of New Zealand students have come up with a novel solution. Their clip-on garden in a box Plant Room is designed to be bolted on to the front of your apartment. This extra space will provide room for a vegetable garden, clothes line, rainwater collection and solar hot water production. The basic idea is to, “combine sustainability with cheaper energy and a desire to improve the landscape from inside, and out.” Read more..

Coming back down to earth Annie Spiegelman, the author of,“Talking Dirt: The Dirt Diva’s Down to Earth Guide to Organic Gardening”, has seven tips to save you money in your garden. Compost, compost, mulch and succulents are just four of her tips. All good solid advice from a Master Gardener. Read more..

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Window Farms And A Clip-On Apartment Garden