Here is compact and easy way to grow food on your patio; simple, low tech, yet highly productive. You can grow all kinds of greens and veggies in a small space. The Garden tower has a center tube with a worm composting system so keeping up the fertility and yields is easy. Just toss you kitchen scraps and junk mail in the tube and let the worms feed your plants. Marjory Wildcraft meets up with John Fry in Texas who explains how it all works.
Marjory has two of these units; one for her research center in Texas, and one for a school where she teaches young kids “Life Skills”. We will keep you posted on how things grow.
Learn more about the garden tower at http://www.gardentowerproject.com
Marjory Wildcraft is an Expedition Leader and Bioneer Blogger with The [Grow] Network, which is an online community that recognizes the wisdom of “homegrown food on every table.” Marjory has been featured as an expert on sustainable living by National Geographic, she is a speaker at Mother Earth News fairs, and is a returning guest on Coast to Coast AM. She is an author of several books, but is best known for her “Grow Your Own Groceries” video series, which is used by more than 300,000 homesteaders, survivalists, universities, and missionary organizations around the world.
COMMENTS(29)
At $269.00 each, they’re impossibly expensive for most of us. Too bad, as it’s an interesting concept…
make your own from a $10 55 gallon barrel
Thank you for your honesty (sharing the best) and great ability to bring things that really work.
I don;t see a place on the gardentower project site where you can just buy one of these garden towers???
berry@detailshere.com
Berry, I’ll repost the link here:
http://gardentowerproject.com/
Marjory,
No osound in the U-Tube attached? Love your Blog
my friend. God Bless and Keep you safe in the days ahead.
Saw this a couple of years ago. when they were looking for donations.. OUT of my price range…
Hi Again, no sound on this video. Today’s video is “Grow Food on your Patio with the garden tower.”
Also, when I try to switch to the full screen mode the screen goes black.
Max, so far you are the only one reporting any sound problems. What browser and computer operating system are you using?
These towers look wonderful but at 270.00 a pop plus shipping it is not affordable.
Angelina,
I hear you. There are ways to make them yourself of course – its that old time or money thing…. And this is the lease expensive system of the uh, 4 of them I have going now.
great idea with these worms …. also worm towers thru the garden are great too just sink the centerpiece into your raised beds…. I innoculated a manure pile and it filled up with red wrigglers in 3 months …. those guys sure work hard and multiply… great idea there Sam
Oooh Sam! I love that idea of simply sinking in compost tubes into existing raised bed gardens. thanks for that.
That looks worth it!
Especially for the herbs.
I will try it.
Selene
Mine has been going great for the month or so I’ve had it up. The other test one at the school down the road is also doing very well.
Make sure you start out with excellent soils.
I have heard that the plastic leaches harmful toxins from the plastic into the soil. Leafy plants will pick up these toxins the most and make the plants toxic to eat. Could you please address this? I have not done the tube towers because of this concern.
Thank you, Susan
Wow Susan, OK you’ve just brought up a great point I hadn’t thought of.
where did you hear of the plastic leaching into the soil – if you have a link for that source I would appreciate it as a starting point.
My initial reaction is that since this system does utilize soil and active composting – I amnot that concerned about leachates from plastic. Some of the other systems I am tryingt thought get more and more ‘high tech’ and some don’t even use soil at all.
I just don’t know, to be honest. Anyone have any help with this? Please jump in.
I grow most of my plants in large black plastic pots…all starters I purchase anywhere, come in plastic pots. Plastic leaches when heated to high temperatures or frozen. At normal temperatures they are stable and clean. The dirt in these planters keep them cooler as does the watering. If the worms are doing well…the plants are doing well. 😉
I have read that if plastic is in the sun it will leach out its toxins.
There is a sale on the terracotta version right now — they posted this coupon on facebook and extended it through this week: AutumnSavings40
Good idea, but too expensive for me.
same here. why is it that everything has to cost so stinking much!!
I see lips moving, but I have apparently gone deaf. I am in the process of locating a lip-reader to find out more information.
huh?
Hi Daryle in Vt,
There good videos of the towers at ktindle.towergarden.com.
Hi Berry Ball,
Thanks for your interest. You can buy this amazing tower garden at ktindle.towergarden.com. It comes with everything you will need for years of growth including organic seeds! They provide easy installment payments to make it convenient to start growing immediately without having to save up. I bought mine in July and I’m just seeing my green peppers pop up about a cherry tomato size so it grows faster than the more traditional way. If you ever have any questions email me at ktindle.juiceplus.com or provide your phone number and I can give you a call.
Darryl C,
Go to ktindle.towergarden.com and they have installments of $45.25 so its affordable and within 6 months you’ll realize your investment has paid for itself.
Go to ktindle.towergarden.com t o watch the experience and tower garden education. You’ll love the high yield of produce grown less than traditional growing. Contact me with any questions.
Kami
Although this is on the Tower Garden by Juice Plus (which is twice as much as Garden Tower Project), this young lady on YouTube makes a good point about the expense (the cost is now about $359) for purchasing at around 8:30 https://youtu.be/7sXpEOJMgCU. Getting it on a payment plan (i.e., credit card) you can break down the cost so that it fits into your brother. Consider it an investment. Of course, another option might be to get one used on eBay or Craigslist (if you can find them … since this lockdown, survival tools, etc., are harder to get since more people are now seeing the benefit of being self-sufficient.