Week 8 of Fun With Tower Garden - Propagation and Produce 

Thank you for joining the growing group of Fun With Tower Garden blog viewers with 647 views to date.  It's been an amazingly wonderful cool and rainy week here in Central Texas.  Quite unusual for mid-July.  The Tower Garden loves the weather and I do too because less water additions and I don't have to worry about overheating like I do with 100+ degree days.

PROPAGATION:  The Tower Garden comes with seeds and a starter kit so I decided to try some out for sharing and for displays.  You add 1 or 2 seeds to the rock wool set in the net pot, cover with a little vermiculite, and add water to the container.  It takes 3-6 days to germinate.    These are at about a week and a half since starting, including time for germination. The largest is the cucumber, second - the cherry tomato and smallest is the basil.

I also noticed a peppermint cutting from my plant started to root.  It's ready for the roots to be surrounded by rock wool, put into a net pot and added to a Tower Garden.  I plan to give this to one of my new distributors for their Tower Garden.  Sharing keeps the costs down.
 

My strawberry plant continues to flower, however, I don't see much in the way of growth afterwards.  Are they just slow, not ready or not getting pollinated?  I'm not sure but open to information from others with some experience.  

PRODUCE:  These two zucchini babies look healthy.  Once their flowers open, they can be pollinated.  Then the growth really happens fast - less than a week to get to 8-9 inches.  

The watermelon growth has really slowed down.  This one is at 6 inches in diameter.  The 4 inch one continues to get a little larger each week.

Thanks to those who visited our booth at Christmas in July, including a fellow Tower Garden owner.  It was fun to share experience, information and ideas.  

If you want your own Tower Garden with or without a distributor business call me at 512-255-0075 or visit my website to order yours now. There's still time to grow some summer plants, or get started on your fall garden.  Visit the website at www.funwith.towergarden.com or come to one of the events on the right to get your questions answered.

NEXT EVENT Tuesday July 23 in Leander:  Visit the booth at Living Naturally at Luigi's Mercato

Thanks for joining 

Fun With Tower Garden

Blessings on your own Tower Garden experience, 

Karen Beard, Direct Distributor
Juice Plus+® Tower Garden ™  
(512) 255-0075

www.funwith.towergarden.com

funwith.towergarden@gmail.com

Week 7 of Fun With Tower Garden - New Food - New Dishes - New Events 

Interest in the  Fun With Tower Garden blog continues to grow with 558 views to date.  It's been especially rewarding to be able to make new dishes with the Tower Garden food.  We are now listing links for new events that you can attend to see and learn about the Tower Garden on the right side of the blog listing at www.funwithtowergarden.blogspot.com.  My distributor team members are also identified on the right side of the blog webpage with their pictures and website links.  

At Week 7 of my Tower Garden growth we are seeing a thinning at the bottom as the squash, cucumbers, and watermelon spill over the sides and onto my deck.

I helped Jisele buy plants and prepare them for her new Tower Garden.  She is also growing a few plants using the seeds that come with the Tower Garden kit. At 3-4 inches tall, the seedlings will have enough roots to put into the Tower Garden.  Seedlings include cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, and basil.  Plants put in Jisele's tower include honeydew melon, okra, sage, thyme, watermelon, squash, and lavender for the beautiful scent. 

Two plants I'm concerned about in my tower are the spinach and sun-dried tomatoes.  The spinach is yellowing rather than a deep green and I'm thinking I may need to add iron which is not included in my new fertilizer.  The sun-dried tomatoes are turning black on the bottoms and the leaves are getting thinned out and turning brown.  I'm open to suggestions from gardeners who are reading this blog.  Please add comments below.  I will be visiting the local hydroponic store for their advice and will let you know what I find out next week.

  
The cucumbers are amazing at 20 inches in length and very delicious. I picked these two to make a wonderful cucumber salad for my daughter's graduation party.  I was thrilled to find a new small cucumber growing that managed to get pollinated.  I'm seeing one honey bee visiting my Tower Garden in the mornings to help me with the pollination.. 

Dishes made for the party included cucumber salad with cucumbers and chives from the tower, potato salad using tower parsley, and salsa (not pictured) using tower tomatoes, parsley, and peppers. It's wonderful to have garden fresh herbs to compliment the delicious food flavors.  Next time I will grow some cilantro.  The flavorful mint continues to both hot and cold tea.  On the right is all the vegetable scraps I have been saving to make soup stock (after my daughter suggested this) - included are potato, carrot, cucumber peels, ends of onions, stems and tops from celery and the herbs.  Once it's all cooked in the crock pot all day, the veggies will be removed leaving delicious and tasty stock for making soups.  I added chicken bones to mine, but just veggies is good too.  

A compliment the wonderful food and delicious herbs is the best part of all - making money being a distributor. After the sale of my tower garden to me, four others sold by my first distributor, and the purchase of Juice Plus by me and my distributor I had the points to make my second promotion and a bonus check of $250.  I am more than half way to paying for my Tower Garden and well past the payments I've made to date. 

If you want your own Tower Garden with or without a distributor business call me at 512-255-0075 or visit my website to order yours now. There's still time to grow some summer plants, or get started on your fall garden.  Visit the website at www.funwith.towergarden.com or come to one of the events on the right to get your questions answered.

NEXT EVENT THIS SATURDAY July 13:  Visit the booth at Christmas in July

Thanks for joining 

Fun With Tower Garden

Blessings on your own Tower Garden experience, 

Karen Beard, Direct Distributor
Juice Plus+® Tower Garden ™  
(512) 255-0075

www.funwith.towergarden.com

funwith.towergarden@gmail.com
 

Week 6 of Fun With Tower Garden - Produce and Event Updates

Week 6 of Fun With Tower Garden - Produce and Event Updates 

The interest in Fun With Tower Garden blog  continues to grow with 488 views.  The garden was carted to one event on June 22 with many people seeing and enjoying it.  After six weeks of growth there continues to be major production of vegetables despite the excessive heat in Central Texas reaching 106 degrees.  

Suyo Cucumbers also require pollination between flowers and are growing to 17-18 inches and about an inch in diameter.  The watermelon continues to grow and is 5.5 inches in diameter.  The goal for this baby watermelon is 7-8 inches. 

This 17" cucumber and pepper was picked for Sunday's Simple Food Choices for Vibrant Living retreat featuring the foods of the Tower Garden.     

The Saturday June 22 booth was visited by people interested in the Juice Plus product line which includes the Tower Garden.   

 

On June 24, 25 and 27, Gina Carmichael, RN got the full audience attention in presenting the incredible benefits of Juice Plus - a whole fruits and vegetables product with the water and sugar removed resulting in naturally occurring vitamins and antioxidants.  It prevents the damage caused by the not-so-healthy foods that inevitably find their way into our daily eating and fills in for what we are missing.  

On June 30, Karen and Jisele prepared raw foods using Tower Garden produce.  Many participants of the Simple Foods retreat were able to enjoy the Tower Garden produce including zucchini pasta and cucumbers covered with spinach, parsley/chive herb, and basil pesto sauces.  The carrot salad featured delicious Tower Garden mint.  These fresh food dishes generated added interest in the Tower Garden. 

If you missed these events, new ones are on the way:

Wednesday July 3 pot luck will include Tower Garden zucchini and tomato/basil marinara sauce.

July 13 Tower Garden/Juice Plus booth at 

Hope Presbyterian Church (in Fellowship Hall)

11512 Olson Drive (78750)

July 26 Empowering Families

August 3, 10, 14   Hear the amazing presentation by Gina Charmichael RN  

Tune in next week to learn about the different plants featured in Jisele's new Tower Garden.


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Blessings on your own Tower Garden experience, 
 Karen Beard, Direct Distributor
Juice Plus+® Tower Garden ™  
(512) 255-0075

funwith.towergarden@gmail.com