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Testing out Nate's Towers
I don't really have a "system thread" here but I wanted to share my excitement about testing out some of Nate's vertical system components.
I've been trying to work out some good method of going vertical on my front porch and Nate finally provided a solution.
Here are some pictures of the start of my test. Currently this is hooked into my "big system" but once I give the towers time to get some bio-filtration established in them, I'll cut the 100 gallon fingerling tank and the 4 towers loose from the main system and see how they do on their own. At the moment the fingerling tank has about 66 small catfish fingerlings residing in it.
Update as of 6/2/2010
Porch tower system is still running tied into the main system.
Most of the plants seem to have recovered from the transplant and are growing. Strawberries are the exception, seems they should be in a tower that is angled rather than hanging straight down so as to keep their crowns dryer.
Cucumbers are doing well I think except for the fact that I have a huge squash bug/stink bug population sucking on them. I might have to pull out the dust buster since even if I did use chemicals, they don't work against stink bugs very well. The bugs of course are not the fault of the towers, they are all over the garden on stuff in dirt and the other parts of the AP system too.
The Basil has visibly grown.
So far so good. I should really go get some proper hanging hardware since right now half the towers are on string from the hooks and the others on wires.
I've been trying to work out some good method of going vertical on my front porch and Nate finally provided a solution.
Here are some pictures of the start of my test. Currently this is hooked into my "big system" but once I give the towers time to get some bio-filtration established in them, I'll cut the 100 gallon fingerling tank and the 4 towers loose from the main system and see how they do on their own. At the moment the fingerling tank has about 66 small catfish fingerlings residing in it.
Update as of 6/2/2010
Porch tower system is still running tied into the main system.
Most of the plants seem to have recovered from the transplant and are growing. Strawberries are the exception, seems they should be in a tower that is angled rather than hanging straight down so as to keep their crowns dryer.
Cucumbers are doing well I think except for the fact that I have a huge squash bug/stink bug population sucking on them. I might have to pull out the dust buster since even if I did use chemicals, they don't work against stink bugs very well. The bugs of course are not the fault of the towers, they are all over the garden on stuff in dirt and the other parts of the AP system too.
The Basil has visibly grown.
So far so good. I should really go get some proper hanging hardware since right now half the towers are on string from the hooks and the others on wires.
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Comment by TCLynx on June 1, 2010 at 4:50pm
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ZipGrow Towers
That is what Nate says they are being called. I suppose it fits, as you pull the media into the tower I suppose it is a little like zipping something up... sort of...
Anyway they are cool. Not a whole lot to report on mine other than I think to do strawberries in them one would need to angel the tower a fair bit to make sure the crowns don't get wet. The two strawberry plants in one of mine are not doing well as their crowns have gotten too wet.
The basil is growing and the cucumber plants seem to have recovered from their transplant shock. Might be worth taking some pictures by this weekend to show the progress.
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Comment by David Hart on May 31, 2010 at 6:59am
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Think of how famous the 'Effiel Tower' is......why not just call them ... the 'Nate's Tower'... :-)
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I don't know if they have gotten any special name? Will have to ask Nate.
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