Fun With Tower Garden

Day 3 of Fun With Tower Garden

The day started with meeting my Juice Plus friend Gina and shopping for appropriate plants - small and sturdy vegetables, herbs and fruits. More on my selections in my next blog entry.

The tower had been circulating for two days with the top off to dissipate the chlorine in the water. Before adding the plants, I added the appropriate amount of tonic to feed the plants and tested the pH. The 2 tonics, 2 pH adjustors, and pH test kit came with my tower garden.

The rock wool was cut in half and placed in declorinated water before placing around the plants and the net pots needed to be adjusted to fit the roots. I clipped off some of the bottom spokes with nail clippers to make room for the roots. Better to do this individually with each plant as the root structures and hole size needed varied.

I decided to go with small starter plants since it is too hot already here in Austin, Texas to start with seeds. I used 2 large buckets with declorinated water (set out for 2 days to let the chlorine dissipate) and 2 smaller containers with hose water to wash off the roots. I removed as much soil as possible into a large pot before washing first in the small pots, then in the large buckets.

After washing the plant roots, the top of the exposed roots were sandwiched between two pieces of wet rock wool, affixed with a rubber band, and placed in a net pot with spokes at the bottom removed to accommodate the roots.

Although washing the plants was a lot of work, compared to digging up even a small vegetable garden this was a real breeze. The next day we added the optional cage to hold the tomatoes and larger crops.

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